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The monotonic increase of immobilized material vith the number of deposition cycles in the LbL technique is vhat allo vs control over film thickness on the nanometric scale. Eilm growth in LbL has been very well characterized by several complementary experimental techniques such as UV-visible spectroscopy [66, 67], quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) [68-70], X-ray [63] and neutron reflectometry [3], Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ETIR) [71], ellipsometry [68-70], cyclic voltammetry (CV) [67, 72], electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) [73], -potential [74] and so on. The complement of these techniques can be appreciated, for example, in the integrated charge in cyclic voltammetry experiments or the redox capacitance in EIS for redox PEMs The charge or redox capacitance is not necessarily that expected for the complete oxidation/reduction of all the redox-active groups that can be estimated by other techniques because of the experimental timescale and charge-transport limitations. 

Quantitative information on penetrated layers under dynamic and equilibrium conditions require much attention in respect to the experimental technique. There are a number of penetration experiments with different advantages and drawbacks. The classical experiment is the injection technique where a soluble component is injected into the subphase below a spread monolayer. Experiments can then be performed at constant monolayer coverage [212, 213, 214] or by compression and expansion cycles [215, 216]. Another possibility is to exchange the subphase below a spread monolayer using a laminar pumping system. Other experiments were performed by using the sweeping technique as described in [217, 218]. 

The potential stahihty of the gold surface reconstruction in the electrochemical environment has heen studied by CV, ex situ emersion LEED experiments [17], STM, and X-ray diffraction [7]. In both add and alkaline solutions, there is good agreement between the experimental techniques that the 5 x 20 reconstruction (see Fig. 5) is formed at cathodic potentials and that it can be reversibly lifted and formed upon cycling the applied potential anodically. Figure 6 shows representative in-plane X-ray diffraction results in the form of rocking scans through... 

In the introduction to Part A we discussed the arch of knowledge [1] (see Fig. 28.1), which represents the cycle of acquiring new knowledge by experimentation and the processing of the data obtained from the experiments. Part A focused mainly on the first step of the arch a proper design of the experiment based on the hypothesis to be tested, evaluation and optimization of the experiments, with the accent on univariate techniques. In Part B we concentrate on the second and third steps of the arch, the transformation of data and results into information and the combination of information into knowledge, with the emphasis on multivariate techniques. 

The SPRITE [16] technique was developed to reduce the dangerous mechanical vibrations and noise produced during an SPI experiment. In addition to the reduced noise and mechanical vibration, the experiment is much faster than SPI and the image intensity is still easily understood. However, one experimental shortcoming is a magnetic field gradient duty cycle which is even more demanding than an SPI experiment. 

The apparatus and techniques of ion cyclotron resonance spectroscopy have been described in detail elsewhere. Ions are formed, either by electron impact from a volatile precursor, or by laser evaporation and ionization of a solid metal target (14), and allowed to interact with neutral reactants. Freiser and co-workers have refined this experimental methodology with the use of elegant collision induced dissociation experiments for reactant preparation and the selective introduction of neutral reactants using pulsed gas valves (15). Irradiation of the ions with either lasers or conventional light sources during selected portions of the trapped ion cycle makes it possible to study ion photochemical processes... 

The non-isothermal Knudsen eflusion technique was used to study vapor pressures of tars. The experimental details have been described previously [Oja and Suuberg 1997, 199S]. About 10 mg of dry tar was placed into a hermetic effusion cell with a small orifice, from which the saturated vapor effuses out into the vacuum outside the cell. To overcome effects caused by changes in tar con iosition during effusion, the experiment involved first a continuous cool-down followed by a continuous heat-up of the sample. From the mass loss data (by talcing into account both cool-down and heat-up as a whole cycle) the vapor pressure was calculated using the Knudsen equation. 

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