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The AFC has some attractive features, such as relatively high efficiency (due to low internal resistance and high electrochemical activity), rapid start-up, low corrosion characteristics, and few precious metal requirements. 

Figure 3 also shows that manganese oxide has a very interesting behavior under positive polarization giving a high electrochemical... 

Magnesium is a reactive metal with relatively high electrochemical equivalent of 2.2 Ah/g and low specific gravity 1.74 g/cm3 its price is not high. This makes magnesium suitable for use as anode in metal-air cells. 

In has been observed in the case of electroless Cu-Pd deposition from electroless solutions containing formaldehyde as reductant, that codeposition of small amounts of Pd with Cu results in appreciable reduction in the amount of H2 gas evolved [50], For example, codeposition of 0.3 at% Pd yields a reduction of 30% in the amount of evolved H2. It is difficult, however, to formulate stable electroless solutions involving Pd2+ since it has strong tendency in the electroless solution to become reduced due to it relatively high electrochemical series potential (ca. 0.95 V vs. RHE3). 

Bao 5Sr0 5Co08Fe0 2O3 (BSCF) shows extremely high electrochemical activity for the 02 reduction reaction at intermediate temperatures. Shao and Flaile [105] applied BSCF as cathode to a doped ceria electrolyte cell and achieved the power densities of... 

The introduction of such a layer can dramatically improve the fuel cell performance. For example, in the SOFC with bilayered anode shown in Figure 6.4, the area-specific polarization resistance for a full cell was reduced to 0.48 Hem2 at 800°C from a value of 1.07 Qcm2 with no anode functional layer [24], Use of an immiscible metal oxide phase (Sn()2) as a sacrificial pore former phase has also been demonstrated as a method to introduce different amounts of porosity in a bilayered anode support, and high electrochemical performance was reported for a cell produced from that anode support (0.54 W/cm2 at 650°C) [25], Use of a separate CFL and current collector layer to improve cathode performance has also been frequently reported (see for example reference [23]). 

In spite of their high pAR+ values, the methyl cations have less negative reduction potentials as compared to those of the cyclic cations e.g., -1.12 V for the tropylium ion 8+ and -2.20 V for cyclopropenium ion 9+ (8). Presence of tert-butyl groups in cations 2b-d+ increased the reversibility of both reduction and oxidation waves. The most negative reduction potential in the dimethylamino derivative 20+ reflects its high electrochemical stability. 

C. Delmas, C. Tessier, Stacking faults in the structure of nickel hydroxide a rationale of its high electrochemical activity, J. Mater. Chem. 7(8) (1997) 1439-1443. 

Molecular salts of type 65 have also been prepared recently by the reaction of a secondary amine with the linear isomer of hexafluoropropane sultone as depicted in Scheme 18 <2003MI1961>. These lithium polymers exhibit high electrochemical stability and cationic conductivity and therefore are ideally suited for lithium polymer batteries. 

In summary, the direct redox reactions can be largely used in the preparation of bimetallic catalysts with a close interaction between the metallic constituents. In that case a metal with a high electrochemical potential is deposited on a metal with a lower potential. The applicability of the technique can be extended significantly by using different ligands which, by chelating metallic ions, modify the standard electrochemical potentials. 

Direct electrooxidation is theoretically possible at low potentials, before oxygen evolution, but the reaction rate usually has low kinetics that depends on the electro-catalytic activity of the anode. High electrochemical rates have been observed using noble metals such as Pt and Pd, and metal-oxide anodes such as iridium dioxide, ruthenium-titanium dioxide, and iridium-titanium dioxide (Foti et al. 1997). 

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