Oxidative microscopic mechanisms

Ai85,86 is discussed on p. 114. Agarwal et al.102 as well as Sharma et al.103 studied this reaction using silica-supported V2Os-alkali metal sulphate catalysts. A two-step oxidation-reduction mechanism gave the best description of the process. The activity increased with increasing atomic number of the added alkali metal for which no interpretation was offered. In an electron microscopic study of these catalysts Sharma et al.103 showed that K2 S04 and V2 05 are present as separate phases but that the sulphate causes the presence of a larger amount of V2 05 in the form of needle-like crystals which appear to be more active for the methanol oxidation. A similar result was obtained by these authors for catalytic oxidation of toluene over these catalysts.104... 

Microscopic Mechanisms of Oxidative Degradation and Its Inhibition at a Copper-Polyethylene Interface... 

Although the microscopic mechanism of pit initiation and oxide breakdown is still not fully understood (40, 41), the macroscopic behavior of enhanced local dissolution and diffusion of dissolved metal ions can be described using current-potential (i-E) curves (Figure 3). The solution conditions in a pit create two distinct electrochemical cells. At the bottom of the pit, the oxidation half-reaction is acidic dissolution of Fe (equation 1), which is balanced primarily by reduction of water to hydrogen gas (equation 3). The second cell is at the mouth of the pit, where the halfreactions are dissolution at a passivated iron metal surface (alkaline conditions) and reduction of water or stronger oxidants such as O2 or RX. 

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The microscopic mechanisms for the MNM transition described in the previous section are quite general. They can be related to a wide variety of physical systems. These include not only expanded electronically conducting fluids, but liquid solutions such as the molten metal-salt solutions, metal-ammonia solutions, semiconducting liquid alloys, etc. The mechanisms are also relevant to the MNM transitions in various solids, including amorphous semiconductors, heavily doped crystalline semiconductors, and metal oxides. Our concern is with fluids and so we turn now to summarize briefly some of the theoretical investigations specifically focused on the MNM transition and its relation to the phase transition behavior of fluid metals. 

The microscopic mechanisms responsible for the electrochemical behavior of metallic and oxide electrodes were exhaustively analyzed in the literature [17-22, 24, 60, 62-69] and are outside of the main scope of this chapter. One should only mention that the solid-electrolyte additions into the electrode composition make it possible to increase reversibility and to enlarge the domain of temperatures and chemical potentials where the electrode can be safely used, a result of the TPB expansion and microstructural stabilization. Although the mixed-conducting and catalytically active additives such as doped ceria might also be useful from the cell impedance point of view, their use for the reference electrodes is limited if oxygen nonstoichiometry changes may occur under the cell operation conditions. 

A chemomechanical system can be defined as one that is used to obtain macroscopic mechanical energy caused by microscopic deformation in response to changes in an external environment it is also considered to be a system for obtaining large deformations effectively by using microscopic mechanical energy. Polymer gels can be functional polymers that possess complex system functions similar to those of biomaterials. Thus, they are potentially useful chemomechanical materials and various studies are underway today. Chemomechanical systems actuate by phase transition, oxidation-reduction, chelation, and formation of complexes between polymers. They are classified as follows ... 

Surface science has tlirived in recent years primarily because of its success at providing answers to frmdamental questions. One objective of such studies is to elucidate the basic mechanisms that control surface reactions. For example, a goal could be to detennine if CO dissociation occurs prior to oxidation over Pt catalysts. A second objective is then to extrapolate this microscopic view of surface reactions to the... 

Apart from the application of XPS in catalysis, the study of corrosion mechanisms and corrosion products is a major area of application. Special attention must be devoted to artifacts arising from X-ray irradiation. For example, reduction of metal oxides (e. g. CuO -> CU2O) can occur, loosely bound water or hydrates can be desorbed in the spectrometer vacuum, and hydroxides can decompose. Thorough investigations are supported by other surface-analytical and/or microscopic techniques, e.g. AFM, which is becoming increasingly important. 

He concluded that for aluminium and titanium certain etching or anodization pretreatment processes produce oxide films on the metal surfaces, which because of their porosity and microscopic roughness, mechanically interlock with the polymer forming much stronger bonds than if the surface were smooth . 

Fig. 1.86 Stills from a scanning electron microscope study by time-lapse photography of iron oxidation showing the results of the crack-heal mechanism. Left, Immsl/tm right, 1 mm 0-5 /tm (courtesy Central Electricity Research Laboratories)...

Third, as the size and complexity of the biomolecular systems at hand further expand, there are more uncertainties in the molecular model itself. For example, the resolution of the X-ray structure may not be sufficiently high for identifying the locations of critical water molecules, ions and other components in the system the oxidation states and/or titration states of key reactive groups might be unclear. In those cases, it is important to couple QM/MM to other molecular simulation techniques to establish and to validate the microscopic models before elaborate calculations on the reactive mechanisms are investigated. In this context, pKa and various spectroscopic calculations [113,114] can be very relevant. 

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