The different contributions of the interfacial capacitance are identified in case passive materials or thin protective coatings deposited on electrode surface. method is based a graphical analysis EIS results to determine both passive-film high-frequency domain and double-layer low-frequency domain. proposed shown be independent physicochemical origins frequency dispersion capacitances which re...

Pitting corrosion was observed on a high purity Fe-17Cr alloy in 0.02M NaCl solution of pH 6.6 at high anodic potential (+ 550 mVISCE). Potentiostatic electrochemical noise measurements were performed, revealing the presence of a characteristic current noise below stable pitting, differing strongly from that observed 011 a series of AISI 430 type 17% Cr stainless steels, with respect to the fre...

The chemistry behavior of steel electrode in acid solutions has been studied by galvano static polarization technique. The consequences of concentrations of acid and temperature of solution are examined. It was found that greater the citric acid concentration or reducing of temperature of the solution assist the passivation process. The values of icorr decreased with greater concentrations of c...

Improving methods for assessing the spatial and temporal resolution of organic compound concentrations in marine environments is important to the sustainable management of our coastal systems. Here we evaluate the use of ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) as a candidate polymer for thin-film passive sampling in waters of marine environments. Log K(EVA-W) partition coefficients correlate well (r(2) = ...

This article analyses the use of film style in Rashomon (1950) to determine if the different accounts of the rape and murder provided by the bandit, the wife, the husband, and the woodcutter are formally distinct by comparing shot length data and using multiple correspondence analysis to look for relationships between shot scale, camera movement, camera angle, and the use of point-of-view shots...

Amorphous hydrogenated silicon (a-Si:H) is known to be a perspective material for negative electrodes of modern lithium-ion batteries. The electrochemical lithium insertion into thin-film a-Si:H electrodes is studied using chronopotentiometry, cyclic voltammetry (CV), and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The electrodes were grown on stainless-steel substrates by glow discharge at t...

In this work, the influence of the substrate bias on the crystalline structure and surface composition of Ti6Al4V thin films prepared by rf magnetron sputtering were studied. Samples were grown onto two different types of substrates: AISI 420 steel and common glass using a Ti6Al4V (99.9 %) target. Substrate bias was varied from –100V to –200 V. Samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (X...

A number of surface modification techniques using immobilization of biofunctional molecules of Titanium (Ti) for dental implants as well as surface properties of Ti and Ti alloys have been developed. The method using passive surface oxide film on titanium takes advantage of the fact that the surface film on Ti consists mainly of amorphous or low-crystalline and non-stoichiometric TiO(2). In ano...

Planar waveguides have evanescent fields sensitive to index of refraction changes in the volume immediately above the waveguide surface. Optically combining one guided sensing beam with a reference beam in an interferometric configuration generates measurable signals. Applying a chemically selective film over the sensing arm of the interferometer provides the basis for a chemical sensor. Tailor...

This paper presents further results and extensions of our previous point defect model for time-dependent growth of passive oxide films on metal surfaces. Specifically, by accounting for vacancies as material species rather than just holes in the oxide lattice, the model incorporates more plausible expressions for interfacial reactions and associated kinetic rate expressions. We use the model to...