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Some electrodes are made of substances that participate in the redox reactions that transfer electrons. These are active electrodes. Other electrodes serve only to supply or accept electrons but are not part of the redox chemistry these are passive electrodes. In Figure 19-7. both metal strips are active electrodes. During the redox reaction, zinc metal dissolves from the anode while copper metal precipitates at the cathode. The reactions that take place at these active electrodes are conversions between the metals contained in the electrodes and their aqueous cations. 

At another type of active electrode, found in many batteries, the reaction is the conversion between a metal and an Insoluble salt. At the surface of this type of electrode, metal cations combine with anions from the solution to form the salt. One example is the cadmium anode of a rechargeable nickel-cadmium battery, at whose surface cadmium metal loses electrons and forms cations. These cations combine immediately with hydroxide ions in... 

Fadner (42) reported preliminary results of electrically initiated polymerization experiments where liquid vinyl monomers are isolated from the electrodes. Liquid ethyl acrylate, for example, absorbed on a filter paper was polymerized in an alternating electric field. The filter paper was sandwiched between two layers of 1.5-mil Mylar film and placed between flat, parallel aluminum electrodes. Conversions of monomer to polymer ranged from 10 to 85% in the range between 20 and 240 sec at up to 25 kcps power. Acrylic acid and its ester polymerized most readily, others, such as styrene and vinyl chloride, resulted only in low yields in the same condition. 

A compilation of standard electrode potentials, and their conversion between different standard pressures, can be found in [29]. Notice that in writing the cell whose emf represents an electrode potential, it is important that the hydrogen electrode should always be on the left. 

At -0.21 V the oligonucleotide chains are in a disordered state. Upon decreasing the potential to -0.61 V, the increased electric field at the electrode-electrolyte interface induces a conversion between the coiled state... 

The electrode calibration, especially the conversion between measured pH and - logio[H ] is an important source of systematic error. The reviewers have when possible corrected this error, as seen in many instances in Appendix A. 

Very finely divided particles suspended in a liquid carry an electrical charge which is equivalent to the charge on the particle itself plus the charge on the fixed portion of the double layer. If an electrical field is applied to such a suspension, the particles move in the field in the direction determined by the charge on the particle (electrophoresis). The diffuse part of the double layer, since it is mobile, has the opposite sign and is attracted to the other electrode. Conversely, if a suspension of particles is allowed to settle, they carry their charge toward the bottom of the vessel and leave the charge on the diffuse layer in the upper portion of the vessel. A potential difference, the sedimentation potential, develops between the top and bottom of the container. 

Recombination of two polarons (similar to recombination of two electrons resulting in Cooper pairs in superconductors) leads to spinless bipolarons with a formal charge of two. Conversion between polaron and bipolaron states as a function of electrode potential is associated with changes in the spectra. 

The specific interaction between the electrode material and some of reacting species has to be defined formally by the overlap of the electronic states of the reactant and the electrode material at the transition state. A weak overlap electron-transfer reaction is defined as that in which the energy of the transition state is not affected by the proximity of the reacting species to the electrode. Conversely, in strong overlap... 

However, conversion from the pH(NBS) scale depends on values of for the electrode pair used, and conversion between the pH(T) and pH(SWS) scales depends on the values of the protonation constants XHSO4 wd hf (see Section 7.4). Hie parameter IIThf is not particularly well defined, and conversion between these scales is therefore not recommended for accurate calculations. 

To characterize the electronic coupling in the peroxidase-electrode system, three ET reactions can be distinguished. The first is a one-electron transfer redox process reflecting the conversion between the ferro/ferri redox states, i.e., Fe /Fe . This process is not directly related to the catalytic cycle of peroxidase however, this reaction could be of interest for comparison with similar heterogeneous ET reactions of heme, heme-peptides, cytochrome c, or other heme-con-... 

The main electrochanical reactions occurring at the negative electrode are the conversion between Pb and PbS04 [1-4] ... 

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