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Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry

Volume 15, 2022

Emerging Optical Microscopy Techniques for Electrochemistry

Abstract

An optical microscope is probably the most intuitive, simple, and commonly used instrument to observe objects and discuss behaviors through images. Although the idea of imaging electrochemical processes operando by optical microscopy was initiated 40 years ago, it was not until significant progress was made in the last two decades in advanced optical microscopy or plasmonics that it could become a mainstream electroanalytical strategy. This review illustrates the potential of different optical microscopies to visualize and quantify local electrochemical processes with unprecedented temporal and spatial resolution (below the diffraction limit), up to the single object level with subnanoparticle or single-molecule sensitivity. Developed through optically and electrochemically active model systems, optical microscopy is now shifting to materials and configurations focused on real-world electrochemical applications.

Keyword(s): electroanalysis, electrochemical conversion, nanoparticles, operando imaging, optical microscopy, single entity electrochemistry, spatiotemporal resolution
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