成核
玻璃碳
电化学
材料科学
扫描电子显微镜
表征(材料科学)
铜
扫描电化学显微镜
显微镜
纳米技术
化学工程
化学
冶金
电极
循环伏安法
物理化学
光学
复合材料
有机化学
物理
工程类
作者
Daniel Roberto Vega Torres,Miguel Ángel Martín López,Annaëlle Demaude,Sajid Hussain,Laure Bar,Patricia Maria Losada Perez,François Reniers,Jon Ustarroz
出处
期刊:Journal of The Electrochemical Society
[The Electrochemical Society]
日期:2022-10-01
卷期号:169 (10): 102513-102513
被引量:8
标识
DOI:10.1149/1945-7111/ac9717
摘要
The electrochemical nucleation and growth (EN&G) on active surface sites has been a concept of fundamental and technological interest for several decades. Here, we have studied the EN&G of Cu on glassy carbon with a new perspective using the Scanning Electrochemical Cell Microscopy (SECCM), in combination with scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and X‐ray photo-electron spectroscopy. Unlike the conventional macroscopic approach, we leveraged the spatial resolution of the SECCM to probe individual sites on the same surface, independently from each other, revealing regions with different energy barriers for nucleation and a distribution of activities for EN&G at the microscopic scale. This site-dependent activity can be modified with common surface pretreatments (i.e., polishing and preanodization). We addressed the electrochemical diversity through multiple descriptors and used them to conduct statistical analysis, supported by surface characterization techniques, bringing forward information that is simply unavailable with the conventional macroscopic approach. This work serves as a departure point to conceive new analysis strategies and address the real nature of active sites for nucleation.
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