Potential, excess

Face-centered cubic crystals of rare gases are a useful model system due to the simplicity of their interactions. Lattice sites are occupied by atoms interacting via a simple van der Waals potential with no orientation effects. The principal problem is to calculate the net energy of interaction across a plane, such as the one indicated by the dotted line in Fig. VII-4. In other words, as was the case with diamond, the surface energy at 0 K is essentially the excess potential energy of the molecules near the surface. 

In order to obtain a definite breakthrough of current across an electrode, a potential in excess of its equilibrium potential must be applied any such excess potential is called an overpotential. If it concerns an ideal polarizable electrode, i.e., an electrode whose surface acts as an ideal catalyst in the electrolytic process, then the overpotential can be considered merely as a diffusion overpotential (nD) and yields (cf., Section 3.1) a real diffusion current. Often, however, the electrode surface is not ideal, which means that the purely chemical reaction concerned has a free enthalpy barrier especially at low current density, where the ion diffusion control of the electrolytic conversion becomes less pronounced, the thermal activation energy (AG°) plays an appreciable role, so that, once the activated complex is reached at the maximum of the enthalpy barrier, only a fraction a (the transfer coefficient) of the electrical energy difference nF(E ml - E ) = nFtjt is used for conversion. 

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Then we must adroitly utilize the excess force created by the asymmetrical regauging, along with its associated excess potential energy, to perform useful work. 

In electrochemistry it has long been known [39]13 that there can be no current or movement in electrodes without the appearance of excess potential (regauging) called the overpotential. 

Quantitative treatment of overpotential and related phenomena goes back to 1905, when Tafel showed empirically that, for an electrochemical half-cell from which a net electrical current I is being drawn, an excess potential AE away from the equilibrium potential will inevitably exist, and AE will be a linear function of the logarithm of the current density i (i = I/area of interface) ... 

It turned out in our considerations that the current density / across an interface is linkedto the overpotential, or excess potential, T) — Atye. In a driven electrochemi-... 

As shown in Fig. 4, with no assumption on the reaction mechanism, the effect of the excess potential on the equilibrium value is considered to reduce the free energy barrier for the forward reaction and to increase it for the backward reaction by a constant fraction a and (1 — a), respectively, of the total free energy change nFE. 

The first two factors in eqns. (68) and (69) define that part of the rate coefficient not dependent on the excess potential, i.e. at E = Ee in a given... 

Fig. 2.1 Schematic representation of photoelectrochemical water electrolysis using an illuminated oxide semiconductor electrode. Open circuit (or small current), pH 2, illuminated conditions are shown for an oxide with an EcB of-0.65 V (SHE) and an Vb of 2.35 V (SHE). With an open circuit, a small excess potential ( 0.15 V) is available for H2 evolution, assuming a reversible counter electrode.

Here, B (r) is the one particle bridge function [95] and oo(r), the thermal potential that equals the opposite of the excess potential of the mean force [18, 28] given by... 

According to Caspari,1 these excess potentials have the )llowing values with individual metals ... 

The idea of excess potential is useful in applying the process of separating a certain kind of ions at unattackable cathodes. For reduction it has up to the present only been proved for hydrogen it is nevertheless possible that the separation potential of every ion changes with the nature of the electrode, since the opportunity for the reaction of discharged ions being catalytically influenced to form stable molecules is always present. E. Muller 1 and Coehn 2 have shown that the excess potential phenomenon also occurs in anodic processes. 

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It has already been mentioned that the excess potential phenomenon occurs also with the oxidation phenomena. Thus it is possible to conyert p-nitrotoluene into p-nitrobenzoic acid at lead-peroxide anodes, while at platinum anodes only the alcohol is formed. It still seems inexplicable how this peculiar action of the anode material takes place. The simplest yet sufficient. explanation is to assume that the anode is capable of influencing catalytically the oxidation process as well as the formation of molecular oxygen. If the first process is accelerated and the second retarded, we obtain the excess potential by which the evolution of oxygen occurs only at a higher potential. Inversely, the oxygen and ozone formation cart be made reversible, and the oxidizing action decreased. 

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