Lithium-metal batteries with high energy/power densities have significant applications in
electronics, electric vehicles, and stationary power plants. However, the unstable lithium …

The study of the structure and dynamics of deposition of metal adsorbates on solid surfaces
is of both fundamental and technological importance. 1-4 The early stages of …

Electrocatalytic water splitting allows storing excess energy from renewable energy sources
such as wind and solar in chemical bonds of hydrogen molecules. So far, only polymer …

Abstract ULLMANN'S Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry is the benchmark reference in
chemistry and chemical and life science engineering, covering inorganic and organic …

The scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) was invented by Binnig and Rohrer and
received a Nobel Prize of Physics in 1986. Together with the atomic force microscope (AFM) …

Dynamic processes at the solid–liquid interface are of key importance across broad areas of
science and technology. Electrochemical deposition of copper, for example, is used for …

In a Scanning Tunneling Microscope [1], an electronic current flows through the tunneling
barrier be-tween an atomically sharp tip and a conductive surface. Roughly speaking, the …

Nanosphere lithography (NSL) is an inexpensive, inherently parallel, high-throughput, and
materials-general nanofabrication technique capable of producing well-ordered 2D periodic …

Since its invention a few years ago, the atomic force microscope has become one of the
most widely used near-field microscopes. Surfaces of hard samples are imaged routinely …

Electrochemical processes and methods are basic to many important scientific disciplines,
materials science and nanotechnology being only two keywords. For the first time in more …