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Elongated element as a model of point contact in ion-conducting medium

In present work it is suggested the concept of continual multi-electrode system being realized on the elongated electrically conducting element immersed into electrolyte. Conjugation of such kind of system with the point-contact structure creates the unique electrode architecture and permits realizing of the auto-oscillation process of electrochemical commutation at atomic scale. During this process the nanostructure is being realized in a form of point contact at the place of the mutual touching of the dendrite top and counter-electrode. The ability of point contacts to concentrate the electric field in assemblage with the peculiar properties of elongated element causes unambiguously the localization of all the electrochemical transformations at the dendrite top, where contact is forming.