Microwave enhanced electrochemistry
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Microwave radiation was applied in electrochemical methods in 1998 when Frank Marken and Richard G. Compton
Richard G. Compton
Richard Guy Compton is a physical chemist working at the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory at Oxford University in England. He is Physical Chemistry editor of the Oxford University Press' chemistry primer series, which has over a hundred titles to date , and also a Fellow of the Royal...

 in Oxford placed a piece of platinum wire inside microwave cavity
Microwave cavity
A microwave cavity is a closed metal structure that confines electromagnetic fields in the microwave region of the spectrum. Such cavities act as resonant circuits with extremely low loss at their frequency of operation...

in small electrochemical cell.
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