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On the impedance response of reactions influenced by mass transfer

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A direct relationship is derived between the charge-transfer resistance and the resistive terms ascribable to diffusion for a faradaic reaction influenced by transport of the reacting species to the electrode. The charge-transfer resistance is shown to approach a finite value for potentials at which the current is limited by mass transfer and, conversely, the diffusion impedance approaches a finite value when the current is controlled by kinetics. Supporting experimental results are presented for both an irreversible (oxygen reduction reaction) and a quasi-reversible (ferrocyanide oxidation) electrochemical systems investigated with a rotating- disk electrode.

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    Mai T. T. Tran, Bernard Tribollet & Vincent Vivier

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA

    Mark E. Orazem

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This paper is the authors’ contribution to the special issue of Russian Journal of Electrochemistry dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Soviet electrochemist Veniamin G. Levich.

Published in Russian in Elektrokhimiya, 2017, Vol. 53, No. 9, pp. 1046–1055.

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Tran, M.T.T., Tribollet, B., Vivier, V. et al. On the impedance response of reactions influenced by mass transfer. Russ J Electrochem 53, 932–940 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1023193517090142

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