A new mathematical treatment has been developed and implemented in an EXCEL spreadsheet in order to determine average equilibrium functions from the full set of data measured by scanning stripping chronopotentiometry (SSCP) in solutions containing different proportions of heavy metal ions and small-sized ligands. It has been applied to the experimental systems Cd(II)-phthalate and Cd(II)-iodide...

The paper presents a new system for electrochemical researches based on PC and LabVIEW software package. An overview of well known electrochemical methods, such as potential measurements, chronopotentiometry, chronoamperometry, cyclic voltammetry and EIS is given. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy has been adapted for systems containing large capacitances. For signal generation and recordi...

Rigorous computation of the metal flux crossing a limiting surface of a system that contains a mixture of 1 : 1 metal complexes under steady-state planar diffusion in a finite domain and under excess of ligand conditions predicts, for some cases, an enhancement of the metal flux with respect to that expected in a system with independent complexes. Indeed, the coupling of the dissociation kineti...

The electrochemical deposition and re-oxidation of solid carbon were studied in CO3(2-) ion-containing molten salts (e.g. CaCl2-CaCO3-LiCl-KCl and Li2CO3-K2CO3) at temperatures between 500 and 800 °C under Ar, CO2 or N2-CO2 atmospheres. The electrode reactions were investigated by thermodynamic analysis, cyclic voltammetry and chronopotentiometry in a three-electrode cell under various conditio...

A group of oxohalides, where Ni3Sb4O6F6 is one example, has been investigated with respect to its electrochemical reactions toward Li/Li. In situ and ex situ XRD measurements reveal that the original structure collapses and the material becomes amorphous upon insertion of Li at low potentials versus Li/Li. With continued cycling, a nanocrystalline phase of NiSb, which reacts reversibly with Li,...

Ionic liquid surfaces can become electrically charged during X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy experiments, due to the flux of photoelectrons leaving the surface. This causes a shift in the measured binding energies of X-ray photoelectron peaks that depends on the magnitude of the surface charging. Consequently, a charge correction method is required for ionic liquids. Here we demonstrate the na...

Nanostructured network-like MnO2-NiO composite electrodes were electrodeposited onto stainless steel substrates via different electrodeposition modes, such as chronopotentiometry, chronoamperometry, and cyclic voltammetry, and then subjected to heat treatment at 300°C for metal oxide conversion. X-ray diffraction, field emission scanning electron microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy...

The application of fourth-order finite difference discretisations of the second derivative of concentration with respect to distance from the electrode, in electrochemical digital simulations, is examined further. In the bulk of the diffusion space, a central 5-point scheme is used, and 6-point asymmetric schemes are used at the edges. In this paper, four Runge-Kutta schemes have been used for ...

This paper aims to bring some novelty about the concentration of some heavy metals and selenium in biological citrus essential oils (CEO) produced in Sicily and Calabria in different crop years. Derivative stripping chronopotentiometry has been used as an accurate, sensitive, and rapid technique for the determination of Cd, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb, Zn, and Se in hydrochloric acid extracts of CEO; in the...

A thin film consisting of highly ordered and vertically oriented silica mesochannels (SMCs) was prepared on the indium tin oxide (ITO) coated glass electrode surface by chronopotentiometry. The mesochannel has a uniform pore size of 2-3 nm in diameter and a positively charged surface due to grafted ammonium groups. The electrostatic and steric effects resulted from control of the surface charge...