1. Permanent address: Department of Materials Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
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5. Similar processes involving precipitation of other inorganic phases (BaSO4, AgCl, and Prussian Blue) have been studied.6 However, these processes are intrinsically self-limiting because the precipitated phase is impermeable to both reagents. By contrast, metal interlayer deposition is never self-limiting because the precipitate remains “permeable” to electrons.