Scanning tunneling microscopy applications in electrochemistry — beyond imaging

摘要: Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) has gradually matured into a powerful tool for imaging electrode surfaces in the electrochemical environment with atomic resolution. It been used to elucidate numerous old puzzling structural issues and reveal many new interesting phenomena. As an tool, it will continue contribute understanding of various processes on surfaces. STM is more than characterizations, other important applications, such as probing electron transfer processes, fabricating nanostructures studying fast kinetics, have also actively pursued. These later unconventional applications are focus this discussion.