Electrodeposition is an old technique with a blooming present and promising future. Indeed, the first steps of electrodeposition can be traced back to around 1800. It is an electrochemical process that allows the deposition of solid deposits on the surface of conductive materials, also called substrates. Although metal oxides, semiconductors, polymers, and even metal-organic frameworks can be grown by electrodeposition, it is mostly utilised for the preparation of metals and metal alloys via cathodic electrodeposition. Electrodeposition (or electroplating as it is widely known in the metal plating industry) has evolved from an art to an exact science thanks to the number of applications electrodeposited metallic materials possess. This is in part due to the immense possibilities that electrodeposition offers in terms of material dimensionality (thin and thick layers, nanowires, nanotubes, nanoparticles, etc.) and the fact that the set-up is rather simple and the process works at room pressure and often at...
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