Electrode Reactions under Kinetics Charge Transfer Control

2 Electrode Reactions under Kinetics (Charge Transfer) Control 

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These equations fit with the equation of a semicircle according to 

The center of the circle is on the real axis, at Z = Rel + R(1/2. The frequency where the imaginary part of the impedance is maximum allows the determination of CDL according to [13]  

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Electrode processes are a class of heterogeneous chemical reaction that involves the transfer of charge across the interface between a solid and an adjacent solution phase, either in equilibrium or under partial or total kinetic control. A simple type of electrode reaction involves electron transfer between an inert metal electrode and an ion or molecule in solution. Oxidation of an electroactive species corresponds to the transfer of electrons from the solution phase to the electrode (anodic), whereas electron transfer in the opposite direction results in the reduction of the species (cathodic). Electron transfer is only possible when the electroactive material is within molecular distances of the electrode surface thus for a simple electrode reaction involving solution species of the fonn... 

This is the famous Butler-Volmer (B-V) equation, the central equation of phenomenological electrode kinetics, valid under conditions where there is a plentiful supply of reactant (e.g., the Ag+ ions) by easy diffusion to and from electrodes in the solution, so that the rate of the reaction is indeed controlled by the electric charge transfer at the interface, and not by transport of ions to the electrode or away from it. 

In electrode kinetics, however, the charge transfer rate coefficient can be externally varied over many orders of magnitude through the electrode potential and kd can be controlled by means of hydrodynamic electrodes so separation of /eapp and kd can be achieved. Experiments under high mass transport rate at electrodes are the analogous to relaxation methods such as the stop flow method for the study of reactions in solution. 

A general transport phenomenon in the intercalation electrode with a fractal surface under the constraint of diffusion mixed with interfadal charge transfer has been modelled by using the kinetic Monte Carlo method based upon random walk approach (Lee Pyim, 2005). Go and Pyun (Go Pyun, 2007) reviewed anomalous diffusion towards and from fractal interface. They have explained both the diffusion-controlled and non-diffusion-controlled transfer processes. For the diffusion coupled with facile charge-transfer reaction the... 

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