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Various spectroelectrochemical cells for in situ observation of electrochemical processes at solid–liquid interfaces

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In the last several decades, a variety of surface analysis techniques which can probe the geometric/electronic/molecular structures of the interfaces, as well as the elemental composition, have been developed and applied for the investigation of electrochemical processes taking place at solid–liquid interfaces. Designing spectroelectrochemical cells is one of the big challenges for utilization of those techniques to a variety of electrochemical interfaces because the thickness of solution layers, materials used as a window, geometry of the photon source, sample, and spectrometer/analyzer/detector need to be optimal for the electrochemical reaction of interest and photons used in the individual techniques. To date, various unique spectroelectrochemical cells have been used for in situ electrochemical studies on interfacial processes even by using the techniques which intrinsically require vacuum. In this paper, recent progress on in situ spectroelectrochemical cells, especially used for X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, is reviewed.

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The present work was partially supported by the Development of Environmental Technology using Nanotechnology from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan. T.M. acknowledges the Japan Science and Technology Agency, PRESTO, for financial support. Synchrotron radiation experiments were performed as projects approved by the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) (Proposal Nos. 2011B4609, 2012A4611, 2012B4605, 2013B3601, and 2013B4601).

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Masuda, T. Various spectroelectrochemical cells for in situ observation of electrochemical processes at solid–liquid interfaces. Top Catal 61, 2103–2113 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11244-018-1067-2

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