Adsorption from a Layer of Finite Thickness on a Planar Electrode

Within the Nernst diffusion model, the effect the convection has on the adsorption at a planar electrode is studied for the case of a diffusion-controlled stage of adsorption and the behavior of the Frumkin–Melik–Gaikazyan finite adsorption impedance is analyzed. Allowing for the convection leads to new functional frequency dependences of constituents of this impedance at low frequencies, where the active constituent depends on the diffusion layer thickness more heavily than the capacitive one. During adsorption of neutral molecules from a layer of finite thickness, an additional relaxation time emerges in an electrochemical system, which results from a finite rate of motion of species in the near-electrode layer. Ignoring the convection may lead to erroneous interpretation of the adsorption mechanism.