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Quartz Crystal Microbalance for the Transient Study of Electrode Processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

V. Daujotis
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Vilnius University, 2734 Vilnius, Lithuania, [email protected]
R Raudonis
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Vilnius University, 2734 Vilnius, Lithuania, [email protected]
V. Kubilius
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Vilnius University, 2734 Vilnius, Lithuania, [email protected]
E. Gaidamauskas
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Vilnius University, 2734 Vilnius, Lithuania, [email protected]
R. Sližys
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Electrochemical Kinetics, Institute of Chemistry, 2600 Vilnius, Lithuania
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Abstract

A technique for the measurement of quartz supported electrode oscillation frequency with special reference to transient electrochemical experiments was prepared. Due to changes in solution viscosity and density and in surface roughness during potential step experiments, the error in calculation of mass changes from frequency responses can reach 3–5 %. Initial deviation of electron numbers from unity by 30–60% during pulse electroreduction of dicyanoargentate shows that this process is not a simple faradaic reaction.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1996

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