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In Situ Ellipsometry and FTIR Spectroscopy Applied to Electroactive Polymer-Modified Electrodes

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Electroactive Polymer Electrochemistry

Abstract

Characterizing films on electrode surfaces has always been a challenging problem in electrochemistry. Recent developments have lent new impetus to efforts to adapt classical spectroscopic techniques to make them suitable for studies of these films. Such studies have found considerable contemporary importance in the chemical modification of electrodes(1) and in the discovery of electronically conducting heterocyclic polymers.(2) Two techniques have especially played key roles in this area: ellipsometry and in situ Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), the first providing a measure of film thickness and overall composition and the second, data on molecular composition. Most importantly both methods can be used to study films in situ during electrochemical growth, cycling, and degradation, thus providing information of direct relevance to that obtained by other electrochemical techniques.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Donnan Robert Robinson Laboratories, University of Liverpool, Box 147, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK

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Higgins, S.J., Christensen, P.A., Hamnett, A. (1996). In Situ Ellipsometry and FTIR Spectroscopy Applied to Electroactive Polymer-Modified Electrodes. In: Lyons, M.E.G. (eds) Electroactive Polymer Electrochemistry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1715-7_3

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