Electrochemistry of the nickel-oxide electrode—VI. Surface oxidation of nickel anodes in alkaline solution
✍ Scribed by M.A. Sattar; B.E. Conway
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1969
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 762 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0013-4686
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✦ Synopsis
Applications of a potentiostatic anodic step charging method (described in the following paper) have been made to the study of the involvement of surface oxide species in the oxygenevolution reaction at nickel electrodes in alkaline solution . The potential range covered included a region where faradaic oxygen evolution can occur . Under these conditions, a method based on principles described in the following paper must be adopted, since currents of both a faradaic (for the over-all reaction) and a pseudo-faradaic (for the surface charging process) origin pass in a common range of potentials . The potential-sweep method under these conditions yields results that are difficult to interpret . Comparison of the results obtained with those from the latter method and from the galvanostatic reduction method is made over appropriate ranges of potential . The formation of various oxide species at the electrode surface is indicated by studies on the stoichiometry of the oxide, as determined by chemical methods . The surface oxide formation or reduction charges are found to be logarithmic with potential up to and well beyond apparent monolayer coverage.
Resmre--Des applications d'une methode de charge anodique potentiostatique (decrite dans ce m6moire) envisagent ici une etude de la modification des oxydes superficiels all cours de Is reaction d'evolution de l'oxygene sur des electrodes de nickel dans une solution alkaline . Le domain de potentiel concern inclut on intervalle oil pout se produile un evolution faradique de l'oxyg8ne .
Dans de telles conditions, une methode, basee sur des principes d6crits dans ce memoire, doit etre adoptee, puisque les courants d'origines taut faradique (pour la reaction globale) que pseudo-£aradique (pour le processus de charge de la surface) ant en commun un certain intervalle de potentiels.
La methode de balayage de potentiel, sous ces conditions, donne des r6sultats difficiles A interpreter .
Comparaison des rbsultats fournis par la methode prec8dente et par la methode de reduction galvanostatique, dam des intervalles appropraes de potentiel . La formation de diff8rentes sortes d'oxydes A Is surface de 1'8lectrode est demontr8e par one etude chimique de Is stoechiomCtrie de l'oxyde.
Lea charges de formation de l'oxyde on de reduction, sont trouv6es fonetions logarithmiques de l'aecroissement de potentiel, A partir et bien an del& d'une couche recouvrante apparemment monomoleculaire .
Zusammenfassung-Mittels einer Methode, welche eine stufenfbrmige Variation des Anodenpotentials verwendet (Beschreibung in der nachsten Arbeit), wurde die Wirkungsweise von Oberfachenoxydteilchen bei der Sauerstoffabscheidung an Nickel aus alkalischer Losung untersucht . Es wurde ein Potentialbereich tiberstrichen, in welchem Faraday'sche Sauerstoffentwicklung mdglich ist . Unter diesen Bedingungen muss eine Methode verwendet werden, die auf den in der nachsten Arbeit beschriebenen Prinzipien berht, da in einem betrachtlichen Potentialbereich Strume sowohl Faraday'schen (£ur die Gesamtreaktion) als such Pseudo-Faraday'schen (fdr die Beladung der Oberfache) Uraprungs auftreten. Die Methode mit stetig ansteigendem Potential liefert enter diesen Bedingungen Resultate, die nur schwer zu interpretieren sind . Die Ergebnisse dieser Methode werden mit denjenigen der galvanostatischen Reduktion ffir einige geeignete Potentialbereiche verglichen . Die Bildung der verschiedenen, in der Oxydschicht auftretenden Teilchen wird durch chemische Untersuchung der Stochiometrie des Oxyds erfasst . Man findet, dass die mit der Bildung odor der Reduktion der Oberfachenoxydteilchen verkntipften Ladungen his zu einer Bedeckung durch scheinbare Monoschichten and such daruber hinaus logarithmisch vom Potential abhangen . * This pre-passive film originates because in the prior galvanostatic pre-treatment, the oxide formed at the pre-conditioning potential 0-5 V, is not reduced below the Ni(OH), state in a rapid cathodic transient . It is hence further oxidized in the subsequent potentiostatic step anodization .
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