Surface free energy from cleavage experiments

Table 2. Surface free energy from cleavage experiments...

So far the description has been focused on interfaces between liquid metals and electrolytes. These systems served preferentially for fundamental experiments because of the easy access to the free surface energy by just measuring surface tension. The situation becomes more complicated if a solid electrode is considered. For a solid electrode one must distinguish the work connected with the creation of a new interface, e.g., by cleavage from the work required to increase the surface area by stretching. 

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