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Let us try and understand this. As stated, Ni plating baths (as well as other acidic baths such as those of Cu and Zn) show poor throwing power. This is so because their CE values are =100% at the low and high current density values, and so macroscopic irregularities on a cathode will lead to nonuniform deposits. Alkaline baths, on the other hand, have a better macro throwing power. This is the case since, in order to remain in solution in such a bath, the metal ion, to be deposited, must be present in complex ions. These ions, in turn, encounter high concentration polarization. Also, in most complex baths the deposition potentials are amenable to hydrogen evolution, which competes with metal deposition such that CE falls as current density is increased. That kind of behavior results in a more uniform deposit on... 

Let us pause and take an inventory of the situation up to this point. (1) We have a plausible mechanism of modulation of both components of WF of a selective layer (palladium) and (2) we have at least two methods of measurement of this effect, the macroscopic Kelvin probe and a field-effect transistor. However, the placement of the selective layer within the structure used for either measurement determines whether the effect is observable. In order to explain this caveat, we add another layer of the same metal M between Pd and the insulator in the structure shown in Fig. 6.33. This would correspond to the real life situation when we would try to connect a selective layer by a wire to the IGFET or a Kelvin Probe. It is not necessary to perform the same cycle as we did in Fig. 6.33. Instead, we add the individual energy contributions in the cycle, which begins and ends at the silicon Fermi level (moving again anticlockwise) ... 

But it was not to be. Try as we might, the difference in scattering lengths between the 6Li and 7Li isotopes was too small to permit us to measure the lithium ion distribution in the swollen state. We had to content ourselves with the results for the crystalline phase, where the behavior of the lithium ions is different from that of the larger alkali metal cations [27], Potassium and cesium ions bind directly to vermiculite clay surfaces rather than hydrating fully. Because only lithium-substituted vermiculites of the alkali metal series will swell macroscopically when soaked in water, it seems that interlayer cations must form fully hydrated ion-water complexes if the particles are to expand colloidally. This conclusion has since been supported... 

To accurately model contaminant transport when Al, Fe, and Mn oxide minerals are present, intraparticle diffusivities are needed. Additionally, as we tried to point out in this ehapter, there are a number of implieations in using the diffusion model with amorphous oxides. Some of these implications of intraparticle diffusion have been observed by researchers in macroscopic studies of both model and real systems. However, as only a small number of studies have been conducted on metal eontaminant diffusion in aqueous oxide systems, many implications need yet to be addressed sueh as the long-term effect of contaminants sorbed in micopores of metastable minerals and desorption of contaminants from both coprecipitated oxides and oxides exposed to contaminants over long periods of time. Therefore, future studies are needed to study and improve our understanding of this slow sorption proeess, intraparticle diffusion. 

Too many scientists are still trying to understand conductivity as a microscopic property, reduced to properties they assume to exist in a single molecular chain. But how can the macroscopic properties of a material be reduced to molecular properties alone Does one Fe atom constitute a metal No, it does not. 

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