Sixty years of electrochemical optical spectroscopy: a retrospective

Sixty years ago, Reddy, Devanatan, and Bockris performed the first electrochemical ellipsometry experiment, which ushered in a new era in the study of electrochemistry, using optical spectroscopy. After six decades of development, electrochemical optical spectroscopy, particularly electrochemical vi...

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Published in:Chemical Society reviews Vol. 53; no. 7; p. 3579
Main Authors: Li, Chao-Yu, Tian, Zhong-Qun
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: England 02.04.2024
ISSN:1460-4744, 1460-4744
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Summary:Sixty years ago, Reddy, Devanatan, and Bockris performed the first electrochemical ellipsometry experiment, which ushered in a new era in the study of electrochemistry, using optical spectroscopy. After six decades of development, electrochemical optical spectroscopy, particularly electrochemical vibrational spectroscopy, has advanced from a phase of immaturity with few methods and limited applications to a phase of maturity with excellent substrate generality and significantly improved resolutions. Here, we divide the development of electrochemical optical spectroscopy into four phases, focusing on the proof-of-concept of different electrochemical optical spectroscopy studies, the emergence of plasmonic enhancement-based electrochemical optical spectroscopic (in particular vibrational spectroscopic) methods, the realization of electrochemical vibrational spectroscopy on well-defined surfaces, and the efforts to achieve spectroelectrochemical applications. Finally, we discuss the future development trend of electrochemical optical spectroscopy, as well as examples of new methodology and research paradigms for spectroelectrochemistry.
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ISSN:1460-4744
1460-4744
DOI:10.1039/d3cs00734k