Issue 55, 2014

Structural electrochemistry. Chronopotentiometric responses from rising compacted polypyrrole electrodes: experiments and model

Abstract

Reduced self-supported polypyrrole films have been oxidized by flow of a constant anodic current (galvanostatic experiments) in aqueous solution. The chronopotentiometric responses obtained from films reduced at high cathodic potentials present an initial peak attributed to the relaxation of packed conformational structures. This is a structural electrochemical response. The influence on this peak of the reduction potential, the electrolyte concentration or the anodic current was studied. The conformational relaxation model gives a good theoretical description of the experimental chronopotentiometric responses under the influence of the studied variables. The experimental evolution of the consumed electrical energy and the separation of the oxidation–relaxation and oxidation–diffusion components are also described by the theoretical model. The energy consumed during the oxidation reaction is a sensor of both the electrolyte concentration and the driving current, also described by the model.

Graphical abstract: Structural electrochemistry. Chronopotentiometric responses from rising compacted polypyrrole electrodes: experiments and model

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
14 Mei 2014
Accepted
20 Jun 2014
First published
20 Jun 2014

RSC Adv., 2014,4, 29139-29145

Author version available

Structural electrochemistry. Chronopotentiometric responses from rising compacted polypyrrole electrodes: experiments and model

J. G. Martinez and T. F. Otero, RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 29139 DOI: 10.1039/C4RA04530K

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