“…In order to demonstrate the modification of a surface, different techniques are used to investigate and to compare the morphology and/or the electrochemical characteristics of the respective surface and/or of the modifier, before, during, or after the modification process. For surface morphology of bare or modified PGE investigations, different techniques of electron [ 3 , 15 , 24 , 28 , 29 , 32 , 34 , 35 , 54 , 60 , 65 – 67 , 85 , 111 , 118 – 122 , 126 – 128 , 130 , 135 , 141 – 143 , 145 – 148 , 158 , 161 , 170 , 173 , 175 , 178 , 181 – 183 , 189 , 198 , 200 , 204 , 205 , 210 , 216 , 218 , 219 ] and atomic force microscopy [ 28 , 29 , 60 , 65 – 67 , 112 , 126 , 172 , 198 , 205 ] are widely used. Sometimes, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was coupled with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy analysis [ 130 , 143 , 149 , 152 , 156 , 172 , 187 , 188 , 203 – 205 ].…”