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Feeling the strain

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Characterizing electrochemical behaviour on the nanometre scale is fundamental to gaining complete insight into the working mechanisms of fuel cells. The application of a new scanning probe microscopy technique can now relate local surface structure to electrochemical activity at a resolution below 10 nm.

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Figure 1: A schematic of the electrochemical strain microscopy technique for measuring electrochemical activity at the nanoscale.

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  1. Hans Elemans is in the Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heijendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands ,

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Elemans, J. Feeling the strain. Nature Chem 3, 656–657 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1120

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