The mechanism of the cathodic reduction of oxygen on smooth platinum in 0.5 M H,SO, solution has been studied on the basis of the current efficiency for H,O, formation. H,O, formation occurs at cathode potentials 1680 mV (nhe), whereas the initial rest-potential lies at 960 mV. The current efficien
Cathodic reduction of adsorbed oxygen on platinum
β Scribed by K. Sasaki; Y. Nishigakiuchi
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1971
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 623 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0013-4686
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β¦ Synopsis
The electrolytic stripping technique has been found useful to study adsorption phenomena occurring at the metal/gas interface. The method has previously been applied to the platinumnitrogen system' and has now been applied to the platinum-oxygen system. A platinum wire with one end sealed in a soft glass tube was exposed to a stream of activated oxygen, which flowed out from a Siemens-type discharge tube. Having been exposed to activated oxygen, the platinum was transferred to the electrolytic cell in order to study the cathodic stripping process of the ad-layer.
The following results were obtained: (i) the fraction of the surface covered by oxygen as well as nitrogen increased with logarithmic time of exposure; (ii) the activation energy of the adsorption was estimated as about 5 kcal/mole for both oxygen and nitrogen; (iii) the electrochemical behaviour of the oxygen ad-layer was very close to that of the cathodic reduction of dissolved oxygen. Hydrogen peroxide was assumed to be an intermediate product of the cathodic process; with regard to nitrogen, the formation of ammonia was confirmed. The electrolytic behaviour of dissolved ozone has also been studied briefly. R&sum&Application d'une technique de purification dlectrochimique & l'btude du ph&nom&ne d'adsorption se manifestant B l'interface m&al/gaz. Cette m&hode avait et6 appliqu& pr&%demment au systkme platine/azote et elle est appliqu6e ici au systkme platine/oxyg&ne. Un fil de platine dont une extr&nit& est soudbe ZL un tube de verre facilement fusible est expos6 & un courant d'oxygkne activ6 qui provient d'un tube & d6charge de type Siemens. Le platine ainsi expod & l'oxyg&ne activ6, est transf& dans une cellule Blectrolytique, en vue d'&tudier le processus de purification cathodique de la couche adsorbee. Les rdsultats suivants ont 6t6 obtenus: (i) la fraction de la surface recouverte par l'oxyg&ne, de m6me que' par l'azote, augmente comme le lbgarithme du temps d'exposition; (ii) l'energie d'activation d'adsorption cst estim6e a environ 5 kcal/mole pour les deux gaz oxy&ne et azote; (iii) le comportement dlectrochimique de la couche adsorb& d'oxy@ne est t&s proche de celui de la rbduction cathodique de l'oxygi%e dissous. L'eau oxyg&& est supposQ dtre un prod& intermediaire du processus cat hodique ; en ce qui conceme I'azote, la formation d'ammoniac a 6tt5 con&m&. Le comportement &ctrolytique de l'ozone dissous a aussi et6 Btudi6 succinctement. Zusammenfassung-Die eIektrolytische Abziehtechnik wurde niitzlich zum Studium von Adsorptionsphgnomenen gefunden, die an der Metall/Gasgrenzflliche vorkommen. Das Verfahren wurde zuvor fiir das Platin-Stickstoffsystem angewandt und ist jetzt fi.ir das Platin-Sauerstoffsystem verwandt worden. Ein Platindraht, der an einem Ende versiegelt war, wurde in einem glatten Glassrohr einem Strom von aktiviertem Sauerstoff ausgesetzt, welcher aus einer Siemens Typ Elektronenriihre ausstrijmte. Nachdem das Platin dem aktivierten Sauerstoff ausgesetzt worden war, wurde es in die elektrolytische Zelle tibertragen, urn den kathodischen Abziehprozess auf die Ad-Schicht zu untersuchen. Folgende Resultate ergaben sich: (i) der Bruchteil der mit Sauerstoff sowie Stickstoff bedeckten ObertXiche vergriisserte sich mit zeitlichem logarythmischen
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