Catalytic mechanism in cyclic voltammetry at disc electrodes: an analytical solution.
The theory of cyclic voltammetry at disc electrodes and microelectrodes is developed for a system where the electroactive reactant is regenerated in solution using a catalyst. This catalytic process is of wide importance, not least in chemical sensing, and it can be characterized by the resulting pe...
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| author | Molina, A González, J Laborda, E Wang, Y Compton, R |
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| description | The theory of cyclic voltammetry at disc electrodes and microelectrodes is developed for a system where the electroactive reactant is regenerated in solution using a catalyst. This catalytic process is of wide importance, not least in chemical sensing, and it can be characterized by the resulting peak current which is always larger than that of a simple electrochemical reaction; in contrast the reverse peak is always relatively diminished in size. From the theoretical point of view, the problem involves a complex physical situation with two-dimensional mass transport and non-uniform surface gradients. Because of this complexity, hitherto the treatment of this problem has been tackled mainly by means of numerical methods and so no analytical expression was available for the transient response of the catalytic mechanism in cyclic voltammetry when disc electrodes, the most popular practical geometry, are used. In this work, this gap is filled by presenting an analytical solution for the application of any sequence of potential pulses and, in particular, for cyclic voltammetry. The induction principle is applied to demonstrate mathematically that the superposition principle applies whatever the geometry of the electrode, which enabled us to obtain an analytical equation valid whatever the electrode size and the kinetics of the catalytic reaction. The theoretical results obtained are applied to the experimental study of the electrocatalytic Fenton reaction, determining the rate constant of the reduction of hydrogen peroxide by iron(II). |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:6d054755-5a6a-48f1-a78c-a756cd2422772022-03-26T19:14:57ZCatalytic mechanism in cyclic voltammetry at disc electrodes: an analytical solution.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:6d054755-5a6a-48f1-a78c-a756cd242277EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2011Molina, AGonzález, JLaborda, EWang, YCompton, RThe theory of cyclic voltammetry at disc electrodes and microelectrodes is developed for a system where the electroactive reactant is regenerated in solution using a catalyst. This catalytic process is of wide importance, not least in chemical sensing, and it can be characterized by the resulting peak current which is always larger than that of a simple electrochemical reaction; in contrast the reverse peak is always relatively diminished in size. From the theoretical point of view, the problem involves a complex physical situation with two-dimensional mass transport and non-uniform surface gradients. Because of this complexity, hitherto the treatment of this problem has been tackled mainly by means of numerical methods and so no analytical expression was available for the transient response of the catalytic mechanism in cyclic voltammetry when disc electrodes, the most popular practical geometry, are used. In this work, this gap is filled by presenting an analytical solution for the application of any sequence of potential pulses and, in particular, for cyclic voltammetry. The induction principle is applied to demonstrate mathematically that the superposition principle applies whatever the geometry of the electrode, which enabled us to obtain an analytical equation valid whatever the electrode size and the kinetics of the catalytic reaction. The theoretical results obtained are applied to the experimental study of the electrocatalytic Fenton reaction, determining the rate constant of the reduction of hydrogen peroxide by iron(II). |
| spellingShingle | Molina, A González, J Laborda, E Wang, Y Compton, R Catalytic mechanism in cyclic voltammetry at disc electrodes: an analytical solution. |
| title | Catalytic mechanism in cyclic voltammetry at disc electrodes: an analytical solution. |
| title_full | Catalytic mechanism in cyclic voltammetry at disc electrodes: an analytical solution. |
| title_fullStr | Catalytic mechanism in cyclic voltammetry at disc electrodes: an analytical solution. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Catalytic mechanism in cyclic voltammetry at disc electrodes: an analytical solution. |
| title_short | Catalytic mechanism in cyclic voltammetry at disc electrodes: an analytical solution. |
| title_sort | catalytic mechanism in cyclic voltammetry at disc electrodes an analytical solution |
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