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The electrode/electrolyte interface impedance can be represented by the parallel combination of a non-faradaic pseudocapacitance and a faradaic, charge transfer resistance. The non-linearity of the overall electrode/electrolyte interface impedance is largely due to that of the faradaic resistance which is derived from the Butler-Volmer equation. As the charge transfer resistance dominates the interface impedance at low frequencies, it is in this region that non-linearities are first observed. The voltage limit of linearity has been investigated and found to increase gradually for higher frequencies. Although relatively linear compared with the charge transfer resistance, the non-faradaic impedance becomes non-linear at large applied voltage amplitudes and dominates the high-frequency non-linear behaviour of the overall interface impedance. Mid-frequencies are affected by a combination of the faradaic and non-faradaic non-linearities.
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McAdams, E.T., Jossinet, J. Physical interpretation of Schwan’s limit voltage of linearity. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 32, 126–130 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02518908
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