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Further information on this subject can be obtained by frequency response analysis and this technique has proved to be very valuable for studying the kinetics of polymer electrodes. Initially, it has been shown that the overall impedance response of polymer electrodes generally resembles that of intercalation electrodes, such as TiS2 and WO3 (Ho, Raistrick and Huggins, 1980 Naoi, Ueyama, Osaka and Smyrl, 1990). On the other hand this was to be expected since polymer and intercalation electrodes both undergo somewhat similar electrochemical redox reactions, which include the diffusion of ions in the bulk of the host structures. One aspect of this conclusion is that the impedance response of polymer electrodes may be interpreted on the basis of electrical circuits which are representative of the intercalation electrodes, such as the Randles circuit illustrated in Fig. 9.13. The figure also illustrates the idealised response of this circuit in the complex impedance jZ"-Z ) plane. 

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Figure 3.5. Overall impedance response of a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell for different cell temperatures, depicted as corresponding values of the real and imaginary parts of the complex impedance (sometimes denoted a Nyquist plot). Each sequence of points represents frequencies ranging from 10 to 10 Hz, with the highest values corresponding to the leftmost points. From M. Ciureanu, S. Mik-hailenko, S. Kaliaguine (2003). PEM fuel cells as membrane reactors kinetic cinalysis by impedance spectroscopy. Catalysis Today 82, 195-206. Used with permission from Elsevier).

It has to be mentioned that such equivalent circuits as circuits (Cl) or (C2) above, which can represent the kinetic behavior of electrode reactions in terms of the electrical response to a modulation or discontinuity of potential or current, do not necessarily uniquely represent this behavior that is other equivalent circuits with different arrangements and different values of the components can also represent the frequency-response behavior, especially for the cases of more complex multistep reactions, for example, as represented above in circuit (C2). In such cases, it is preferable to make a mathematical or numerical analysis of the frequency response, based on a supposed mechanism of the reaction and its kinetic equations. This was the basis of the important paper of Armstrong and Henderson (108) and later developments by Bai and Conway (113), and by McDonald (114) and MacDonald (115). In these cases, the real (Z ) and imaginary (Z") components of the overall impedance vector (Z) can be evaluated as a function of frequency and are often plotted against one another in a so-called complex-plane or Argand diagram (110). The procedures follow closely those developed earlier for the representation of dielectric relaxation and dielectric loss in dielectric materials and solutions [e.g., the Cole and Cole plots (116) ]. 

Regulation of CBF is a complex dynamical process and remains relatively constant over a wide range of perfusion pressure via a variety of feedback control mechanisms, such as metabolic, myogenic, and neurally mediated changes in cerebrovascular impedance respond to changes in perfusion pressure. The contribution to the overall CBF regulation by different areas of the brain is modeled by the statistics of the fractional derivative parameter, which determines the multifractal nature of the time series. The source of the multifractality is over and above that produced by the cardiovascular system. 

More complex circuits can be analyzed by combining impedances according to rules analogous to those applicable to resistors. For impedances in series, the overall impedance is the sum of the individual values (expressed as complex vectors). For impedances in parallel, the inverse of the overall impedance is the sum of the reciprocals of the individual vectors. Figure 10.1.12 shows a simple application. 

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Figure 12.40 shows the Cole-Cole plot of specimen (a), (b), and (c) respectively. In all three cases, the nature of the Cole-Cole plot is found to be a depressed semicircle over that of pure base matrix gum Arabica [17]. The Cole-Cole plot depicted indicates the nature of electroactivity in the complexes. The inclusion of micro/meso-sized chromatophore enhanced the electroactivity in the complexes to increase the electronic conductivity in them. Analysis of the Cole-Cole plot shows that it is a depressed semicircle showing overall EABP characteristics. The obtained semicircular impedance variation is more depressed compared to that of pure gum Arabica [17]. The depressed nature... 

For solid electrolytes one usually is concerned with intrinsically condncting systems rather than with intrinsically nonconducting (dielectric) ones. It is then appropriate and usual to consider basic systan response at the impedance rather than the complex dielectric constant level. Then if one assumes that the overall impedance of the system, Z, approaches Ro at sufficiently low frequencies and at sufficiently high ones, one can form the normalized dimensionless quantity... 

This chapter provides the fundamentals of impedance spectroscopy. Special emphasis is placed on the issues of fuel-cell development, where impedance spectra are particularly difficult to measure and evaluate owing to the large number and great complexity of concurring physical and chemical processes that contribute to the overall electrical response of the cell. 

A final consideration is the impedance of the anode electrode. Because of the complex impedance characteristics of polarization, it makes sense that the anode is large so as not to impede current flow in order to complete the electrical circuit. However, in modem lead systems, whether they are bipolar or unipolar, the anode electrode impedance conttibutes very little to the overall system impedance. 

For non-magnetic conductive materials (i.e., = /i = x lo- H/m and ), the intrinsic impedance ti of snch materials is primarily dependent on the DC electrical conductivity o (Paul, 1992). The overall polarizability of the material can be expressed as a complex electrical permittivity, which accounts for the dielectric storage and losses (Ramo et al., 1984 Nanni and Valentini, 2011). Thus, in nanocomposites, whose conductivity is not high compared to pure metals (ie., 101 S/m vs. 107 S/m), the polarization loss e" also plays a role in determining the EM SE, primarily in the absorptive component of shielding, and can be viewed as another entropic effect (Ramo et al., 1984). 

Because of the simple relation between complex impedance and E and i, an alternative diagram giving the same information in terms of impedances only can be plotted, Fig. 8.6. For series circuits, the overall impedance is the vector sum of the reactances of the separate elements. Again by anology with the rule for resistive circuits, the overall impedance for parallel combinations is the reciprocal of the sum of the reciprocal impedances of each circuit component. The quantity defined by the reciprocal impedance 1/Z, called iht admittance K, is often useful in describing the behaviour of combinations of impedances. The generalised Ohm s law is then... 

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