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The electrochemical behavior of heterometallic clusters has been reviewed clsewbcre."" The interest in examining clusters stems from their potential to act as "electron sinks " in principle, an aggregate of several metal atoms may be capable of multiple redox state changes. The incorporation of heterometals provides the opportunity to tune the electrochemical response, effects which should be maximized in very mixed"-metal clusters. Few very mixed -metal clusters have been subjected to detailed electrochemical studies the majority of reports deal with cyclic voltammetry only. Table XII contains a summary of electrochemical investigations of "very mixed"-metal clusters. 

Cyclic voltammetry (Fig. 2) and spectro-electrochemical studies (Fig. 3) in DMF have shown that the first step of the reduction of sulfur proceeds via an ECE process with a reversible chemical reaction (C) that... 

Electrochemical studies of plutonium in NaCl-based melts are less common than that in LiCl—KCl mixtures. In a recent paper by Lambertin etal. the standard potentials for the Pu(III)/Pu(0) couple were determined from cyclic voltammetry data in equimolar NaCl—KCl and CaCl2... 

Cyclic Voltammetry for Electrochemical Studies in Non-Aqueous Solutions... 

Cyclic stationary-electrode voltammetry, usually called cyclic voltammetry (CV), is perhaps the most effective and versatile electroanalytical technique available for the mechanistic study of redox systems [37,39,41-44]. It enables the electrode potential to be scanned rapidly in search of redox couples. Once located, a couple can then be characterized from the potentials of peaks on the cyclic voltammogram and from changes caused by variation of the scan rate. CV is often the first experiment performed in an electrochemical study. Since cyclic voltammetry is a logical extension of stationary-electrode voltammetry (SEV), some important aspects of CV were treated in the preceding section. 

Electrochemical studies confirmed the presence of redox-active nanoparticles. Differential pulse and cyclic voltammetry studies were conducted. Cyclic voltammetry showed that the complex displays an electrochemically reversible ferrocene/ ferrocenium couple (Figure 9.6). The oxidation potential for the hybrid CPMV-Fc conjugate and free ferrocenecarboxylic acid in solution was determined E1/2 of CPMV-Fc was 0.23 V, and Elj2 of free ferrocenecarboxylic acid was 0.32 V versus the Ag/AgCl electrode, respectively. This shift is expected for the conversion of the carboxyl group of ferrocenecarboxylic acid to an amide on coupling to the virus capsid, since the amide is less electron-withdrawing. 

Electrochemical studies have been performed with the alkylammonium intercalated VOx nanotubes139 as well as Mn intercalated VO nanotubes87 Cyclic voltammetry studies of alkylammonium-VO nanotubes showed a single reduction peak, which broadened on replacing she amine with Na wish an additional peak. Li ion reactivity has also been tested with Mn-VO nanotubes by reacting with rt-butyllithium, and found that -2 lithiums per V ion are consumed. Electrochemical Li intercalation of Mn-VO nanotubes show that 0.5 Li ions per V atom were intercalated above 2 V.87 This observation may be relevant to battery applications. 

Potentiodynamictechniques— are all those techniques in which a time-dependent -> potential is applied to an - electrode and the current response is measured. They form the largest and most important group of techniques used for fundamental electrochemical studies (see -> electrochemistry), -> corrosion studies, and in -> electroanalysis, -+ battery research, etc. See also the following special potentiodynamic techniques - AC voltammetry, - DC voltammetry, -> cyclic voltammetry, - linear scan voltammetry, -> polarography, -> pulse voltammetry, - reverse pulse voltammetry, -> differential pulse voltammetry, -> potentiodynamic electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, Jaradaic rectification voltammetry, - square-wave voltammetry. 

Solid-state electrochemistry — is traditionally seen as that branch of electrochemistry which concerns (a) the -> charge transport processes in -> solid electrolytes, and (b) the electrode processes in - insertion electrodes (see also -> insertion electrochemistry). More recently, also any other electrochemical reactions of solid compounds and materials are considered as part of solid state electrochemistry. Solid-state electrochemical systems are of great importance in many fields of science and technology including -> batteries, - fuel cells, - electrocatalysis, -> photoelectrochemistry, - sensors, and - corrosion. There are many different experimental approaches and types of applicable compounds. In general, solid-state electrochemical studies can be performed on thin solid films (- surface-modified electrodes), microparticles (-> voltammetry of immobilized microparticles), and even with millimeter-size bulk materials immobilized on electrode surfaces or investigated with use of ultramicroelectrodes. The actual measurements can be performed with liquid or solid electrolytes. 

Electrochemical studies of a novel tetrathiocine 11 (Section 14.09.2) was performed by cyclic voltammetry and showed two reversible redox waves <2002TL5825>. 

Platinum, glasslike carbon, and tungsten are often used as inert working electrodes for the fundamental electrochemical studies in the ionic liquids. For such transient electrochemical techniques as cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry, and chronopotentiometry, it is safer to use the working electrode with a small active area. This is because most of the ionic liquids will have low conductivity, and this often causes the ohmic drop in the measured potentials by the current flowing between the working and counter electrode. Microelectrodes may be useful for the electrochemical measurements in the case of handling low conductive media. 

Abstract. The electrochemical study of peculiarities of carbon solid phase electrodeposition from halide melts (NaChKCl, mole ratio 1 1 NaCl KCkCsCl, mole ratio 0.3 0.245 0.455), saturated by carbon dioxide under excessive pressure up to 1.5 Mpa was carried our in temperatures range 500 800 °C by the method of cyclic voltammetry. It has been found that the cathodic process occurs in three stages at sweep rates of <0.1 Vs"1, and its electrochemical-chemical-... 

The technique of cyclic voltammetry or, more precisely, linear potential sweep chronoamperometry, is used routinely in aqueous electrochemistry to study the mechanisms of electrochemical reactions. Currently, cyclic voltammetry has become a very popular technique for initial electrochemical studies of new systems and has proven very useful in obtaining information about fairly complicated electrochemical reactions. There have been some reported applications of cyclic voltammetry for solid electrochemical systems. It is worth pointing out that, although the theory of cyclic voltammetry originally developed by Sevick, ° Randles, Delahay, ° and Srinivasan and Gileadi" and lucidly presented by Bard and Faulkner, is very well established and understood in aqueous electrochemistry, one must be cautious when applying this theory to solid electrolyte systems of the type described here, as some non-trivial refinements may be necessary. 

A few electrochemical studies have been also addressed to the structurally characterized (XRD ) VO(acac)2 ". It undergoes oxidation to [VO(acac)2]+ by a process which seems to be reversible in the short times of cyclic voltammetry, but coupled to chemical complications in the longer times of exhaustive electrolysis. One of its salts has been spectroscopically identified as [VO(acac)2](l5). VO(acac)2 also undergoes irreversible or partially reversible reduction processes, particularly in the presence of uncomplexed acac, which ultimately afford [V(acac)3] . The pertinent electrode potentials are listed in Table 8. 

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