Atomically controlled electrochemical nucleation at superionic solid electrolyte surfaces

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 530-535

  Valov, Ilia ^a   Sapezanskaia, Ina ^b   Nayak, Alpana ^c   Tsuruoka, Tohru ^c   Bredow, Thomas ^d   Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi ^c   Staikov, Georgi ^a   Aono, Masakazu ^c   Waser, Rainer ^a,b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTROLYTES; SILVER;

APPLIED POTENTIALS; CHARGE RESOLUTION; ELECTROCHEMICAL NUCLEATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS; ELECTROLYTE SURFACES; PHASE INSTABILITY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROCESS; SUPER IONIC CONDUCTORS;

SOLID ELECTROLYTES;

EID: 84862770850     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3307     Document Type: Article

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