Cutting Edge Materials Research and Nanotechnology Conference

Title: Smartelectrodes: Electrochemical approach to design and analyze multiscaled electrodes By Henrikas Cesiulis, Lithuania Electrochemical approach is an advanced method to elaborate new materials that can be adopted as versatile “smart” electrodes, which can bring significant assets in several important electrochemical applications such as catalysis/ electrocatalysis, sensoring, thermoelectrics. From this point of view, a variety of electrochemically obtained electrodes based on: i) chalcogenides and  ii) iron group metals/alloys  will be discussed (Fig. 1).  In addition, the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is widely used for characterization of electrochemical systems. The usefulness of EIS lies in the ability to distinguish the dielectric and electric properties of individual contributions of components under investigation. The practical applications of EIS are targeting for the following film types:  (i) metals/alloys films electrodeposition;