Platinum metal coatings

The second form consists of Pt metal but the iridium is present as iridium dioxide. Iridium metal may or may not be present, depending on the baking temperature (14). Titanium dioxide is present in amounts of only a few weight percent. The analysis of these coatings suggests that the platinum metal acts as a binder for the iridium oxide, which in turn acts as the electrocatalyst for chlorine discharge (14). In the case of thermally deposited platinum—iridium metal coatings, these may actually form an intermetallic. Both the electrocatalytic properties and wear rates are expected to differ for these two forms of platinum—iridium-coated anodes. 

Iridium on valve metals is suitable if the consumption rate of platinum is too high at elevated temperatures or critical composition of the medium. Mostly platinum-iridium alloys are used with about 30% Ir, because coating valve metals with pure iridium is somewhat complicated. For the same reason, other noble metals such as rhodium cannot be used [21]. At present there is little price difference between platinum and iridium. 

Recently it has been shown that the oxides of the platinum metals can have a higher corrosion resistance than the metals themselves , and have sufficient conductivity to be used as coatings for anodes, e.g. with titanium cores. Anodes with a coating of ruthenium dioxide are being developed for use in mercury cells for the electrolysis of brine to produce chlorine , since they are resistant to attack if in contact with the sodium-mercury amalgam. 

Precious metals and oxides platinised titanium, platinised niobium, platinised tantalum, platinised silver, solid platinum metals, mixed metal oxide-coated titanium, titanium oxide-based ceramics. 

Iridium has been deposited from chloride-sulphamate and from bromide electrolytes , but coating characteristics have not been fully evaluated. The bromide electrolytes were further developed by Tyrrell for the deposition of a range of binary and some ternary alloys of the platinum metals, but, other than the platinum-iridium system, no commercial exploitation of these processes has yet been made. 

Smooth platinum, lead dioxide and graphite are anode materials commonly used in electrooxidation processes. All show large overpotentials for oxygen evolution in aqueous solution. Platinum coated titanium is available as an alternative to sheet platinum metal. Stable surfaces of lead dioxide are prepared by electrolytic oxidation of sheet lead in dilute sulphuric acid and can be used in the presence of sulphuric acid as electrolyte. Lead dioxide may also be electroplated onto titanium anodes from lead(Il) nitrate solution to form a non-porous layer which can then be used in other electrolyte solutions [21],... 

Platinum metal and its alloys have numerous applications. As a precious metal it is used extensively in jewelry. Other important applications include construction of laboratory crucibles and high temperature electric furnaces in instruments as thermocouple elements as wire for electrical contacts as electrodes in dentistry in cigarette lighters and for coating missile and jet engine parts. 

Transition-metal -phthalocyanines as catalysts in acid medium. To prevent carbonate formation by the carbon dioxide in the air or that produced by oxidation of carbonaceous fuels, an acid electrolyte is necessary hence it is important to find electrocatalysts for an acid medium. Independently of Jasinski, we were soon able to show 3>4> that under certain conditions the reduction of oxygen in dilute sulfuric acid proceeded better with phthalocyanines on suitable substrates than with platinum metal. The purified phthalocyanines were dissolved in concentrated sulfuric acid and precipitated on to the carbon substrate by addition of water. This coated powder was made into porous electrodes bound with polyethylene and having a geometrical surface of 5 cm2 (cf. Section 2.2.2.1.). The results obtained with compact electrodes of this type are shown in Fig. 6. 

Oxidic coatings containing platinum metal oxides, in particular RuCE, and platinum metal coatings, in particular Ru... 

As it is clear that the higher the exchange current density, the lower the penetration depth and catalyst utilization, it is evident that for the more active platinum metal catalysts, an improvement of catalyst performance by using highly porous coatings is neither expected nor observed, as the normal coating roughness of 1 /im already corresponds to the penetration depth in a nanopore (82). 

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