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Surface Properties of Nickel Electrodes in an Alkaline Electrolyte: An Ellipsometry Study

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Adsorption of oxygen-containing species (OCS) on a polycrystalline nickel electrode in an alkaline electrolyte is studied by electrochemical and ellipsometric methods in the potential region from hydrogen evolution to oxygen evolution. It is concluded that OCS have stoichiometric composition Ni(OH)2 up to 1.35 V. The potential of the OCS formation onset, the oxide monolayer thickness, and the surface coverage by OCS in the interval 0 ≤ θ ≤ 1 are determined. The oxidation and reduction of a nickel oxide layer, repeatedly cycled at 1.35–1.5 V, suggests that this process is chemically reversible and the thickness of the oxide formed at 1.35 V is constant. It is shown that keeping the electrode under open-circuit conditions at 0.7–0.9 V for 10–20 h leads to the formation of nonelectroconducting oxide “NiO z .”

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Kudryavtseva, Z.I., Burkal'tseva, L.A. & Pshenichnikov, A.G. Surface Properties of Nickel Electrodes in an Alkaline Electrolyte: An Ellipsometry Study. Russian Journal of Electrochemistry 40, 1208–1213 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:RUEL.0000048656.31084.12

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