The Effect of the Double-Layer Structure on Electrode Processes

Abstract

A. N. Frumkin was the first to consider the effect of the double-layer structure on the kinetics of electrochemical processes in developing the theory of slow discharge and hydrogen overpotential [7, 8, 551]. Frumkin’s views were later fruitfully employed by himself and by his co-workers to explain the phenomena observed in the electrochemical reduction of oxygen [552], anions [463–466, 551–559], and several neutral compounds. Recently, the ideas developed by Frumkin have become widespread among electrochemists (see, for example, [420, 560–562]); several publications have appeared in which the effect of the double-layer structure on electrode processes was discussed. These later cases dealt with electrode processes limited by antecedent chemical reactions [563–569]. The structure of the electrical layer and its effect on the kinetics of electrode processes were summarized in several reviews, among which the outstanding reviews of Damaskin [570], Parsons [571], and of Nürnberg and Stackelberg [572] must be mentioned.