“…Therefore, combining electrochemistry with an additional characterization or analysis tool is an often necessary and very useful way to obtain more and complementary information about processes occurring on or inside the electrode, and about its state. For this purpose, numerous techniques complementing electrochemistry have been demonstrated, including mass spectrometry (MS), [1][2][3] quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), [4][5][6][7] optical techniques like vibrational spectroscopy, 8 infrared transmittance and reflectance spectroscopy, 9 ellipsometry, 10 optical microscopy, 11,12 and synchrotron based X-ray spectroscopy. 13 All these methods have in common that they rely on relatively advanced experimental setups and -where applicable -complex optics in order to obtain signals with a satisfying signal-to-noise ratio and resolution.…”