Characterization of Carbon Film Electrodes for Electroanalysis by Electrochemical Impedance

The interfacial behavior of electrodes fabricated from carbon film resistors of 2 and 20 Ω in supporting electrolyte solutions of varying pH used in electroanalytical experiments has been characterized by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy with complementary cyclic voltammetric experiments. Equivalent circuits are proposed to fit the experimental data and the influence of electrode pretreatment has also been investigated.     

Copolymer of Di (methacryloyloxymethyl) naphthalene and divinylbenzene as a column packing for high-performance liquid chromatography

Summary A new porous polyaromatic ester packing was synthetized for high performance liquid chromatography. The relationship between retention and chain length of the members of homologous series of alkylbenzenes, N-alkylanilines, alkylarylethers, alkylbenzoates and alkylarylketones on this new stationary phase using different eluents was investigated. Using the alkylarylketone scale the retention indices of the homologues and test compounds were calculated. The results were compared with those obtained for poly (styrene-divinylbenzene) polymers. For both types of packing the first members of each homologous series gave non-linear behaviour. The methylene group index increments are different for the studied homologous series; thus there is no simple additivity of the retention indices. The efficiency of the porous polymeric columns is a function of the capacity factor of the solute and the organic component of the eluent.     

Crystal structure and ionic conductivity of the series A2Bi24Mo8X2O68 (A = Ca, Sr and Ba and X = Cr and W) in the Bi2O3?MoO3 system

A series of A₂Bi₂₄Mo₈X₂O₆₈ compounds, Ca₂Bi₂₄Mo₈Cr₂O₆₈ (CBMC), Sr₂Bi₂₄Mo₈Cr₂O₆₈ (SBMC), Pb₂Bi₂₄Mo₈Cr₂O₆₈ (PBMC) and Ba₂Bi₂₄Mo₈W₂O₆₈ (BBMW) have been synthesized by the solid-state method and characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction. The compounds index into the monoclinic P2/c system with a=11.687(4) ?, 5.784(2) ?, 24.728(9) ?, 101.911(6)°, Z=1; 11.673(6) ?, 5.775(3) ?, 24.670(2) ?, 101.757(8)°, Z=1; 11.638(3) ?, 5.790(1) ?, 24.655(6) ?, 101.716(4)°, Z=1 and 11.718(6) ?, 5.818(3) ?, 24.716(12) ?, 101.835(9)°, Z=1 for CBMC, SBMC, PBMC and BBMW, respectively. The structures were solved by direct methods and refined to R indices of 0.081, 0.065, 0.080 and 0.079 respectively. These compounds are isostructural with Bi₂₆Mo₁₀O₆₉ and the structure consists of columns of [Bi₁₂O₁₄] along the b-axis, surrounded by Mo/Cr/WO₄ tetrahedra. a.c. impedance studies indicate higher values of ionic conductivity for the tungsten-substituted compounds. Supplementary material The crystal data of CBMC, SBMC, PBMC and BBMW have been deposited at the Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe (FIZ) with the numbers CSD 415143, CSD 415145, CSD 415144 and CSD 415142, respectively.     

Pt／钇稳定氧化锆固体电解质在高温下的电化学性质

用交流阻抗技术研究了二电极、三电极Ｐｔ／钇稳定氧化锆（简称ＹＳＺ）高温固体电化学体系．开路电位下，Ｐｔ／ＹＳＺ体系只有一个阻抗半圆，对应于电极体系的电化学活化控制过程，极化电阻随温度变化的表观活化能为１７１．５ｋＪ／ｍｏｌ．Ｐｔ／ＹＳＺ界面的双电层电容约为３００μＦ／ｃｍ２．阳极极化下，交流阻抗极化电阻显著减小；阴极极化下，极化电阻反而增大，并出现浓差控制现象．     

LSGMC5含量对于二甲醚燃料电池复合Ni-Fe阳极性能的影响

用浸渍法制备了掺杂不同质量分数的La0.8Sr0.2Ga0.8Mg0.15Co0.05O3-δ (LSGMC5)粉末的Ni8-Fe2-LSGMC5复合阳极, 并采用交流阻抗和直流极化技术考察了以氢气和二甲醚为燃气时该复合阳极的电化学性能及相应电池的功率输出特性. 结果表明, 在电极中掺入LSGMC5 粉末, 能显著地改善电极的形貌和电极/电解质界面结构, 减小欧姆电阻和极化电阻. 电极中LSGMC5 粉末含量对于氢气及二甲醚电化学氧化性能的影响显著不同. 以二甲醚为燃气时, 电极极化电阻随LSGMC5 粉末含量的增加而减小, 其中LSGMC5 掺杂量为30%的复合阳极具有最高的电化学性能, 相应电池在1073、1023、973 K 时的输出功率分别为1.00、0.61、0.40 W·cm-2; 以氢气为燃气时, LSGMC5 掺杂量为20%的复合阳极具有最好的电化学性能, 随着LSGMC5 掺杂量的进一步增加, 电极极化电阻显著增大.     

Protective Properties of Zinc-Rich Coatings: An Impedance Method Estimate

The impedance of zinc-rich polymer coatings on steel in a 3-% NaCl solution is studied. The electrochemical behavior of the electrode is satisfactorily described by an equivalent circuit that contains a constant-phase element, which reflects fractal properties of the zinc surface in the binder. From the results of calculations of the circuit elements for metal-rich electrodes with different zinc contents computed are fractions of the active area of the surface of the coating and its fractal dimensionality.     

Electrical Properties of Polycrystalline Lithium Chloroboracite Prepared by the Sol-Gel Method

The electrical properties of polycrystalline lithium chloroboracite, Li4B7O12Cl, prepared by the sol-gel method were investigated in connection with their structure. Li4B7O12Cl pellets were prepared with different amounts of hydrochloric acid or ammonium chloride. The kind and amount of the chlorine source affected the formation of by-products (Li2B4O7, LiCl, a glass phase) and the morphology of the Li4B7O12Cl pellets. Thus their conductivity, which is dominated by grain boundary response owing to the high porosity of the materials, was also affected. The formation of Li2B4O7 as a by-product led to a higher activation energy and lower conductivity. In those pellets in which Li2B4O7 did form, an increase of the amount of glass phase led to higher conductivities.     

Label-Free Impedance Biosensors: Opportunities and Challenges

Impedance biosensors are a class of electrical biosensors that show promise for point-of-care and other applications due to low cost, ease of miniaturization, and label-free operation. Unlabeled DNA and protein targets can be detected by monitoring changes in surface impedance when a target molecule binds to an immobilized probe. The affinity capture step leads to challenges shared by all label-free affinity biosensors; these challenges are discussed along with others unique to impedance readout. Various possible mechanisms for impedance change upon target binding are discussed. We critically summarize accomplishments of past label-free impedance biosensors and identify areas for future research.     

Variable Mott-Schottky plots acquisition by potentiodynamic electrochemical impedance spectroscopy

Potentiodynamic electrochemical impedance spectroscopy provides extraction of potential-dependent space charge layer capacitance from potentiodynamic impedance spectra of non-stationary semiconductor–electrolyte interface. The new technique has been applied for acquisition of Mott-Schottky plots of cathodically treated TiO₂ anodic films. Cathodic treatment in 1 M H₂SO₄ increases donor density and flat band potential of TiO₂. Freshly doped films show hysteresis in the space charge layer capacitance in cyclic potential scans. The subsequent cycling eliminates the hysteresis but preserves the greater part of the doping effect. Presented at the 4th Baltic Conference on Electrochemistry, Greifswald, 13–16 March 2005     

电化学合成聚苯胺粉末电极的电化学行为研究

我们曾用慢速动电位扫描法研究化学合成聚苯胺粉末的电化学行为.本文对恒电位电解合成聚苯胺粉末进行了研究.用这种方法制备的粉末由于合成溶液中不含氧化剂因而纯度高.本文还报导了这种聚苯胺粉末电极的交流阻抗测量结果.交流阻抗法曾用于聚苯胺膜的电导和化学合成聚吡咯的电阻测定. 所用盐酸、氟硼酸、硅氟酸、苯胺均为分析纯;苯胺经常压蒸馏提纯;硫酸为超纯;磷酸为分析纯;高氯酸为优级纯.溶液皆用两次蒸馏水配制.