Electrodeposition western

The above-considered pattern provides satisfactory explanation for the mechanism of formation of metal-salt cathode deposits, so-called pears in Russian or carrots in Western literature. Such deposits are very common if the electrolysis is carried out at temperatures below the melting point of a deposited metal. A number of examples can be found in the processes of electrodeposition of refractory and other polyvalent metals (Nb, Ta, Ti, Si, B and others) in fluoride-containing molten salt electrolytes. 

The largest part of J. Matulis scientific papers were published in Russian in the journal Lietuvos TSR MA Darbai (Proceedings of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences), which has been founded by him. Only ca. 9 % of his papers were published in Moscow and ca. 5 % in Western journals. Therefore, not all of J. Matulis works are well known in the scientific world. Nevertheless, in the twentieth century, J. Matulis was one of the most widely cited Lithuanian chemists. His paper On the characteristics of cathodic processes of nickel electrodeposition by J. Matulis and R. Slizys published in Electrochimica Acta in 1964 [24] up to 1990 was the most frequently cited paper of the IChChT. J. Matulis was an excellent lecturer, and he published several textbooks on physical and colloid chemistry [25, 26]. 

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