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Gas-Generating Porous Electrodes: The Nature of the Low-Polarizability Portion in the Polarization Curves

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The phenomenon of a low-polarizability portion (LPP) is discussed in the paper. The phenomenon is responsible for the possible rapid increase in the current in polarization curves (PC) for the gas generation in gas-generating porous electrodes (GGPE). A fresh viewpoint on the nature of LPP is propounded. The inflection in PC, which follows the linear Tafel portion, owes its inception to the emergence, in the electrode pores, of a network of gas pores that are freed of electrolyte and are connected with each other. The effective diffusion coefficient for gas molecules in gas pores filled with water vapor is larger than the effective diffusion coefficient for the same gas molecules in liquid pores filled with an electrolyte solution by several orders of magnitude. The emergence of a gas phase in a GGPE leads to a rapid increase in the effective diffusion coefficient. This circumstance in turn is capable of rapidly intensifying processes of the formation and removal of gas, which leads to a considerable increase in the overall current. A method for obtaining an approximate solution of the problem (the notion on ideal porous electrode) is suggested. A system of equations is derived, which can sufficiently accurately, qualitatively and quantitatively describe the character of variations in a polarization curve in the initial part of a low-polarizability portion. Theoretical and experimental polarization curves for the chlorine evolution on a dimensionally stable anode are compared quantitatively.

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Chirkov, Y.G., Chernenko, A.A. Gas-Generating Porous Electrodes: The Nature of the Low-Polarizability Portion in the Polarization Curves. Russian Journal of Electrochemistry 37, 467–476 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016667819142

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