Electro-optical reflection methods application

This chapter discussed the application of the electro-optical reflection method in the in situ observation of the adsorption and desorption of bioactive substances at an electrode surface acting as a simple model of charged sites at a biosurface. This method should find extensive application in various bioelectrochemical fields as a potent means of surface analysis. Electrode surfaces, though much simpler than biosurfaces, still provide data reflecting actual occurrences at biosurfaces in some respects. Electro-optical studies on the behavior of bioactive substances at electrode surfaces should provide some indication of how such substances behave at biosurfaces. 

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