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Introduction

Nanostructured materials exhibit a host of interesting new phenomena directly related to their reduced dimensionality. Not only the electronic, magnetic, and optical properties but also chemical, electrochemical, and catalytic properties of nanostructured materials are very different from those of the bulk form and depend sensitively on size, shape, and composition (Kirk and Reed, 1992; Berry, et al., 1996). The large surface-to-volume ratio and the variations in geometry and electronic structure have a dramatic effect on transport and catalytic properties. For example, the reactivity of small clusters has been found to vary by orders of magnitude when the cluster size is changed by only a few atoms (Whetten, et al., 1985). Another example is hydrogen storage in metals. It is well known that most metals do not absorb hydrogen, and even among those that do, hydrogen is typically adsorbed dissociatively on surfaces with a hydrogen-to-metal ratio of 1. This limit is not...

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Zhong Lin Wang

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

    Yi Liu

  3. Institute of Physics, BeijingLaboratory of Electron Microscopy, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China

    Ze Zhang

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(2003). Electrochemical Characterization. In: Wang, Z., Liu, Y., Zhang, Z. (eds) Handbook of Nanophase and Nanostructured Materials. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23814-X_19

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