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Size Effects in Electrochemical Systems

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In the structure of solids (especially metals) particularly interesting are the particles usually consisting of from some tens to some tens of thousands of atoms. They have been called metallic clusters [1]. Ultrathin electrochemical microelectrodes of the thickness between ~1 nm to some tens of nm’s also belong to this region; they are treated as highly dispersed state of matter. This region constitutes a kind of „bridge” between the microscopic region of matter (atoms, giant molecules) on the one hand and the macroscopic one (condensed matter, bulk of metallic crystals) on the other.

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Romanowski, S., Wojtczak, L. (1997). Size Effects in Electrochemical Systems. In: Green Functions in Electrochemistry. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5504-5_5

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