1. MODELING 1.1 Physical properties Table 1 lists the kinetic parameters assumed for the simplified, one-dimensional model of a photoelectrochemical cell in which the hydrogen-evolution reaction (HER) is catalyzed by platinum at the cathode and the oxygen-evolution reaction (OER) is catalyzed by iridium oxide at the anode. Table 1: List of kinetic parameters for OER and HER Parameter Descriptio...

An 8 nm-thick gadolinium-doped ceria (GDC) layer was inserted as a cathodic interlayer between the nanoscale proton-conducting yttrium-doped barium zirconate (BZY) electrolyte and the porous platinum cathode of a micro-solid oxide fuel cell (μ-SOFC), which has effectively improved the cathode reaction kinetics and rendered high cell power density. The addition of the GDC interlayer significantl...

Methanogens can use H(2) produced by cathodic depolarization-mediated oxidation of elemental iron to produce methane. Thermodynamic consideration of the cathodic depolarization mechanism predicts more oxidation of Fe at lower pH. Methanogenic responses to pH by Methanococcus deltae, Methanococcus thermolithotrophicus, and Methanosarcina barkeri were examined. When grown on H(2)-CO(2), these bac...

Current fluctuations of cathodic arcs were recorded with high analog bandwidth (up to 1 GHz) and fast digital sampling (up to 5 Gsamples/sec). The power spectral density of the arc current was determined by fast Fourier transform clearly showing material dependent, non-linear features in the frequency domain. These features can be associated with the non-linear impedance of the conducting chann...

We report the electrodeposition of electrocatalytic clusters of platinum from femtomolar platinate solutions. An inert carbon fiber ultramicroelectrode (UME) was held at a potential where proton reduction was unfavorable on carbon but favorable on platinum in a 1 M sulfuric acid solution. Upon addition of femtomolar amounts of hexachloroplatinic acid, which will also reduce to Pt(0) at the appl...

Cathodic protection (CP) has been successfully employed to protect steel-framed masonry buildings from corrosion related damage. When a CP system is installed to protect the structural members, other metallic items which are within the fabric of the structure but are not in direct electrical continuity may suffer from stray current interactions, resulting in accelerated corrosion of the discont...

This paper introduces a comparative theoretical investigation of the conventional cathodic protection (CP) and the pulse cathodic protection (PCP) systems to show how both of them behave under different operating conditions. The effectiveness of the PCP system has been analyzed in the light of getting better protection-current distribution along the protected well casing at reduced anode curren...

The pre-treatment of substrate surfaces prior to deposition is important for the adhesion of physical vapour deposition coatings. This work investigates Si surfaces after the bombardment by energetic Cr ions which are created in cathodic arc discharges. The effect of the pre-treatment is analysed by X-ray diffraction, Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy and in-d...

In this study, vanadium conversion coating(VCC) was deposited on the surface of soft-cast steel (St-37).  A thermoset coating was enforced on the VCC and blank substrates. The surface was characterized by field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM), elemental mapping of energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). The adhesion strength...

the reduction mechanism of molybdenum-methyl thymol blue (mtb)-chlorate system has been investigated in water on a mercury electrode. as this system is very sensitive for ultratrace determination of molybdenum, the actual mechanism involved was studied. electrochemical techniques, including dc tast polarography and cyclic voltammetry were employed. it is shown that, the cathodic wave of molybde...