Flexible electrodes

Flexible plastic top film Transparent top electrode ZnO nanorod array Transparent bottom electrode Flexible plastic substrate... 

Often the mechanical strength of the metal is an important property (e.g., in the shaft of a needle electrode). Biocompatibility may be critical if a metal comes in contact with living tissue (e.g., with metals used in sterile invasive electrodes). Flexible large electrodes of nickel may generate allergy in human skin. This can be prevented by using an electrolytic salt bridge between the electrode metal and the tissue. 

Electrical Connections. Electric current is brought from the transformers by air-cooled copper busbars and close to the electrode by water-cooled bus tubes and flexible cables, connecting to water-cooled copper contact plates at the electrode. The plates are held against the electrode by hydraulic pressure. The connectors are as short and as balanced as possible to allow cancelling of magnetic fields associated with individual conductors. 

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Flexible polyethylene separators have facilitated a novel cell construction the separator material, supplied in roll form, is wound so that it meanders around electrodes of alternating polarity (Fig. 23), requiring ribs in the cross-machine direction such profiles are available commercially [60],... 

Thus, under the hydrodynamic conditions prevailing at high rotation rates, the one-electron product is removed more rapidly by convection than by the chemical reaction, while at slow rotation speeds the chemical reaction and further electron transfer predominates. The form of the electrode and the hydrodynamic conditions prevailing in the electrolysis solution are therefore parameters which require controlling but which give additional flexibility in the design of syntheses. 

In 1979, Diaz et al. produced the first flexible, stable polypyrrole (PPy) film with high conductivity (1(X) Scm ). The substance was polymerized on a Pt-electrode by anodic oxidation in acetonitrile. The then known chemical methods of synthesis " usually produced low conductivity powders from the monomers. By contrast, electropolymerization in organic solvents formed smooth and manageable films of good conductivity. Thus, this technique soon gained general currency, stimulating further electropolymerization experiments with other monomers. In 1982, Tourillon... 

Note-. In newer versions of BASIC, line numbers are no longer needed. Compare this BASIC code to Excel file ELECTRODE.xls to gain a feeling for the difference in approach necessary to obtain the same result on software platforms geared towards efficient and flexible programming, respectively user convenience. 

FIG. 1 Geometries of electrolyte interfaces, (a) A planar electrode immersed in a solution with ions, and with the ion distrihution in the double layer, (b) Particles with permanent charges or adsorbed surface charges, (c) A porous electrode or membrane with internal structures, (d) A polyelectrolyte with flexible and dynamic structure in solution, (e) Organized amphophilic molecules, e.g., Langmuir-Blodgett film and microemulsion, (f) Organized polyelectrolytes with internal structures, e.g., membranes and vesicles. 

Many other opportunities exist due to the enormous flexibility of the preparative method, and the ability to incorporate many different species. Very recently, a great deal of work has been published concerning methods of producing these materials with specific physical forms, such as spheres, discs and fibres. Such possibilities will pave the way to new application areas such as molecular wires, where the silica fibre acts as an insulator, and the inside of the pore is filled with a metal or indeed a conducting polymer, such that nanoscale wires and electronic devices can be fabricated. Initial work on the production of highly porous electrodes has already been successfully carried out, and the extension to uni-directional bundles of wires will no doubt soon follow. 

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