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Electrochemical Aspects of Hydrogen in Metals

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Electrochemical Materials Science

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The deleterious effect that hydrogen produces in metals, known popularly as hydrogen embrittlement, has been the root cause of innumerable investigations.(1–6) The hydrogen that produces embrittlement usually is of electrochemical origin such as corrosion, pickling, electrodeposition, photoelectrolysis (occurring on oxide films of Fe2O3, TiO2, etc.(7–8)) and so on. Involvement of electrochemistry in the study of H in metals is a natural consequence of the origin of the damaging hydrogen. Furthermore, the electrochemical technique of measuring hydrogen permeation developed by Devanatham and Bockris(9–13) is a very convenient and rigorous method for studying fundamental properties such as the diffusion coefficient, solubility, partial molar volume (pmv), heat of solution, etc., of H in metals in the temperature range of aqueous solutions.

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Subramanyan, P.K. (1981). Electrochemical Aspects of Hydrogen in Metals. In: Bockris, J.O., Conway, B.E., Yeager, E., White, R.E. (eds) Electrochemical Materials Science. Comprehensive Treatise of Electrochemistry, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4825-3_8

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