Atomic Emission Spectroelectrochemistry: A New Look at the Corrosion, Dissolution and Passivation of Complex Materials

摘要

Electrochemical methods are certainly the "workhorse" techniques for research into the mechanisms of aqueous corrosion and metal dissolution. And, while electrical current is one of the simplest physical quantities to quantify over a large dynamic range and acquisition frequency, it suffers one major drawback - the nonselectivity of the electron. We can count electrons passing through an electrometer but in the final analysis, in chemical terms, we know neither where they come from nor where they go.