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Probing Surface Electrochemical Activity of Nanomaterials using a Hybrid Atomic Force Microscope-Scanning Electrochemical Microscope (AFM-SECM)
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Probing Surface Electrochemical Activity of Nanomaterials using a Hybrid Atomic Force Microscope-Scanning Electrochemical Microscope (AFM-SECM)

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Chemical imaging of surfaces with the scanning electrochemical microscope

A J Bard, F R Fan, D T Pierce

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |October 4, 1991
    PubMed

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