Cathodes early developments

The study of corrosion properties of mild steel and stainless steel in aqueous solutions has received a great general attention. Mild steel is the most common structural material and is used in a wide range of environments. It is well known that when mild steel corrodes, anodic and cathodic areas develop over the corroded surface. Conventionally, these pits are known to change in shape and move across the surface, resulting in early corrosion that is approximately... 

Since the focus of this paper is on pollution control applications of metal recovery, the complex and as yet incompletely told story of the early development of electroplating, surface finishing and early electrowinning techniques will not be discussed further. The development of electrolytic cells for pollution control applications of metal recovery dates from the mid-1960 s when several major advances in electrochemical engineering took place. Advances in potential and current distribution theory, mass transfer processes, coupled with the introduction of new materials, created a stimulus for the introduction of novel cathode designs with improved mass transfer characteristics. 

In PEMFCs and PEMELCs, anode and cathode are in drastically different chemical environments. In a PEMFC, the side is highly reductive, while strong oxidative potential is maintained on the cathode side, especially at OCV. Electrochemical potential can also influence H Oj production as discussed before. Extensive study in this area has been conducted since the early development of PEMFCs. 

Investigations into the use of lead alloys for cathodic protection were made in the early 1950sand a practical material had been developed by 1954. The general use of lead alloys in seawater had previously been established... 

VFD tubes operate by the same principle as CRTs but use low-energy electrons (10-100 V) to excite the phosphor. The electrons are emitted from a cathode (wire) and are accelerated and controlled so that they bombard a phosphor-coated anode, causing the phosphor to emit light. ZnO Zn (green-emitting) phosphors were used in early VFD devices, but as the application range expanded, demand developed for multicolored displays.29... 

Encouraging laboratory experiments since 1994 with oxygen-depolarised cathodes (ODC) in chlor-alkali as well as hydrochloric acid electrolysis motivated the development of this technique up to the industrial scale. Based on the predictions of the theory, the reduction of cell voltage could be expected up to 1 V (Fig. 4.1) for both applications. Early on, the proper choice and improvement of ODC, deriving mainly from the DeNora group, led to results with voltages as predicted in short tests as well as in endurance tests conducted over dozens of months at the Bayer endurance test facilities. 

Thus, electrochemical data involving both thermodynamic and kinetic parameters of hydrocarbons are available for only olefinic and aromatic jr-systems. The reduction of aromatics, in particular, had already attracted much interest in the late fifties and early sixties. The correlation between the reduction potentials and molecular-orbital (MO) energies of a series of aromatic hydrocarbons was one of the first successful applications of the Hiickel molecular orbital (HMO) theory, and allowed the development of a coherent picture of cathodic reduction [1], The early research on this subject has been reviewed several times [2-4],... 

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