I tried to use acetone to remove the carbon tape residual on my cobalt foil, but the cobalt foil then gets oxidized and turned in light yellow. What is the chemical reaction behind this?
Alexander N Titov The metal surface turns into a yellow color, which can be removed by a diluted HCl solution. I polished the substrate surface to mirror flat, so the change is very clear. I had not done XPS yet, so it might not be something else. But what it could be?