In situ techniques used in hyphenated mode for studying the properties of electroactive materials

In situ electrochemical techniques are widely applied to study the synthesis and properties of redox active materials. These combined methods enable the in-depth understanding of the complex processes, since they are able to furnish extra information about the given process from some additional aspect. Thus, detection of spectral modifications, changes in mass, structure, volume and conductivity, occurring in parallel with the redox transformations, complete the knowledge by enlightening secondary effects of the electrochemical perturbation. Various combinations of two in situ electrochemical methods extend further the understanding of the behaviour of electroactive materials by furnishing information from several aspects at the same time from the self-same layer. In this work these advantageous hyphenations are summarized, which combinations enable to correlate additive or secondary effects, provoked by the same background: the electrochemical process. The presented methods can be implemented and used ubiquitously in studies of divers modified electrodes.