Platinum 111 face

Figure 11.1. Scanning tunnelling microscope image of a periodic array of Fe islands nucleated on the regular dislocation network of a Cu bilayer deposited on a platinum (111) face (after Urune...

Figure 3.17 Micrometer thin-layer electrode system (a) outer thimble for readings to 1 X 10 4 in (b) press-fit Teflon collar (c) platinum face of micrometer spindle (d) flat, glass disk in Teflon cup against the face of the detachable anvil (e) machined Teflon cup (/) Starrett No. 212 detachable anvil (g) rod for mounting cell assembly.

Cotton, J.B. (1958) Platinum-faced titanium for electrochemical anodes. A new electrode material for impressed current cathodic protection. Platinum Metals Rev., 2,45-47. 

EXAFS spectra of platinum metal, having a face-centred cubic crystal stmcture, have been obtained at 300 K and 673 K. Explain what qualitative differences you might expect. How many nearest-neighbour atoms are there in this stmcture Illustrate your answer with a diagram. 

Although it is attractive to directly convert chemical energy to electricity, PEM fuel cells face significant practical obstacles. Expensive heavy metals like platinum are typically used as catalysts to reduce energy barriers associated with the half-cell reactions. PEM fuel cells also cannot use practical hydrocarbon fuels like diesel without complicated preprocessing steps. Those significantly increase the complexity of the overall system. At this time, it appears likely that PEM fuel cells will be confined to niche applications where high cost and special fuel requirements are tolerable. 

Platinum. Pt aw 195.09 silver-gray, lustrous, malleable and ductile metal face-centered... 

Some measurements with Pt single-crystal faces have been published recently.140,210,773 Iwasita and Xia210 prepared platinum single crystals according to the method of Clavilier et a/.186 773 After flame annealing and cooling in an H2 + Ar mixture, the electrode was protected... 

It was quickly seen from studies on platinum single crystals that voltammograms for hydrogen adsorption and desorption differ somewhat among the different faces and between the single-crystal faces and polycrystalline platinum. Despite these differences, though, they have common traits as weU. The areas under these curves,... 

The differences between faces usually are small. The reaction rates observed at the different faces as a rule are of the same order of magnitude and differ by no more than a factor of 3 to 5. Significant catalytic effects where one of the faces is tens of times more (or fess) active than the other single-crystal faces of the same metal are rare. One of the few examples is the reduction of CO2 on platinum which occurs with the formation of a strongly bound chemisorbed product (called reduced CO2). At the... 

Van Hove MA, Koestner RJ, Stair PC, Biberian IP Kesmodel LL, Bartos I, Somorjai GA. 1981. The surface reconstructions of the (100) crystal faces of iridium, platinum and gold, 1. Experimental-observations and possible structural models. Surf Sci 103 189-217. 

Investigation of intermediates of an electrode reaction and rapid determination of the electrochemical equivalents may be achieved by means of thin-layer electrolytic cell only about 10 im thick, consisting of two platinum electrodes which are the opposing spindle faces of an ordinary micrometer. 

Platinum electrodes are made usually from poly crystalline metal the crystal planes at the surface include both the (111) and (100) faces in approximately equal proportions. The electrochemical properties of Pt(lll) and Pt(100) faces are not identical. (Generally, the physical properties of individual metal crystal faces, such as work function, catalytic activity, etc., are different.)... 

Cyclic voltammetry studies of single-crystal platinum electrodes in acidic aqueous electrolytes showed that the two characteristic peaks of hydrogen adsorption/desorption on platinum (see Fig. 5.40) correspond in fact to reactions at two different crystal faces the peak at lower potential to Pt(100) and the other one to Pt(lll). 

The electrocatalytic oxidation of methanol was discussed on page 364. The extensively studied oxidation of simple organic substances is markedly dependent on the type of crystal face of the electrode material, as indicated in Fig. 5.56 for the oxidation of formic acid at a platinum electrode. 

Fig. 5.56 Triangular-pulse voltammograms of oxidation of 0.1 m formic acid in 0.5 m H2S04 at various faces of a single-crystal platinum electrode, 22°C, dE/dt =... 

Only large clusters usually adopt the face-centered cubic structure of metallic platinum. A novel cuboctahedral cluster [Pt15Hx(CO)8(PBut3)6] has been reported by Spencer et al.512 and the first octahedral cluster [Pt6(CO)6(/i-dppm)3]2+ was only reported recently.573... 

To investigate heparin release in response to an electric current, the swollen heparin-polymer matrix was attached to a woven platinum cathode in a continuously stirred PBS solution (pH 7.4), and an electric current of 20 mA was applied. When the electric current was on, the polymer surface facing the cathode dissolved, thereby releasing heparin. The amount of heparin released was assayed by the Azure II method at pH 11 to prevent complexation of the two dissolved polymers. The release pattern of heparin showed a complete on-off profile in response to the applied electric field, as shown in Figure 23 [50],... 

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