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Precise Electrochemical Sizing of Individual Electro-Inactive Particles
Published on: August 4, 2023
The cyclic voltammetry simulation of a competition between stepwise and concerted dissociative electron transfer, the
Przemysław Sanecki1, Piotr Skitał
1Faculty of Chemistry, Rzeszów University of Technology, Poland. psanecki@prz.rzeszow.pl
Abstract:
A comparison of elementary (input) and apparent (output) values of the transfer coefficient was carried out for simulated kinetic cyclic voltammetry spectrum from stepwise to concerted mechanism. The resulting patterns of alphaapp versus Ep plots do not provide sufficient information to discriminate between the two mechanisms. It has been demonstrated that non-linear alphaapp patterns are characteristic for the pure stepwise mechanism obeying the Butler-Volmer kinetics. The change in alphaapp is not a sufficient condition for the transition from stepwise to concerted mechanism. This paper contains visualizations of the relationship between the apparent and elementary transfer coefficient. The difference between the potential variabilities of alphaapp and alphaelem (a frequent source of confusion) is also discussed.
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