Copper microsteps

Figure 7.13. Propagation of copper microsteps on real surfaces of Pt. AFM images (z = lOOnm/div) of copper electrodeposition at / = 1 mAJcvr for a total charge of (a) 0.0, (Z ) 0.8, and (c) 1.6 mC. (From Ref 32, with permission from the Electrochemical Society.)...

Rynders and Alkire (26) studied propagation of copper microsteps on platinum surfaces using in situ atomic force microscopy. 

Although this reaction may not offer any synthetic advantage over the corresponding copper reaction, the discrete nature of the microsteps in Eq. (w) makes the organogold reaction valuable as a mechanistic probe. 

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