Roughness Factors of Electrodeposited Nanostructured Copper Foams
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Electrodeposition
2.2. S Copper Foam Characterization
2.3. Electrochemical Measurements
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Structure and Morphology of Copper Foams
3.2. Pb UPD
3.2.1. Pb2+ Concentration
3.2.2. Effect of pH
3.2.3. Cyclic Voltammetry
3.2.4. Chronoamperometric Measurements
3.3. Reproducibility
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Levin, E.E.; Morozov, D.A.; Frolov, V.V.; Arkharova, N.A.; Khmelenin, D.N.; Antipov, E.V.; Nikitina, V.A. Roughness Factors of Electrodeposited Nanostructured Copper Foams. Nanomaterials 2023, 13, 3011. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13233011
Levin EE, Morozov DA, Frolov VV, Arkharova NA, Khmelenin DN, Antipov EV, Nikitina VA. Roughness Factors of Electrodeposited Nanostructured Copper Foams. Nanomaterials. 2023; 13(23):3011. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13233011
Chicago/Turabian StyleLevin, Eduard E., Dmitriy A. Morozov, Vsevolod V. Frolov, Natalia A. Arkharova, Dmitry N. Khmelenin, Evgeny V. Antipov, and Victoria A. Nikitina. 2023. "Roughness Factors of Electrodeposited Nanostructured Copper Foams" Nanomaterials 13, no. 23: 3011. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13233011