Open-access Electrochemical deposition of the first Cd monolayer on polycrystalline Pt and Au electrodes: an Upd study

Abstracts

The underpotential deposition of Cd on polycrystalline Pt and Au was studied by voltammetry at stationary and rotating ring-disc electrodes. On Pt, the Cd ads dissolution peaks overlap those related to the oxidation of Hads, thus hindering the precise evaluation of desorption charges. A model proposed to calculate such charges from voltammetry at stationary electrodes revealed a value of 285 muC cm-2 for the monolayer dissolution, which corresponds to a coverage of 90% with Cd ads presenting an electrosorption valence of 0.5. Rotating ring-disc experiments fully confirmed such values. The misfit between atomic radii of Cd and Pt justifies the less-than-100% coverage. On the other hand, on Au, the absence of Hads simplifies the procedure for determination of dissolution charges for the Cd monolayer. Here, a value of only 41 muC cm-2 was calculated, which corresponds to a maximum coverage of 15%, with the electrosorption valence of 0.5. The results obtained in the collecting experiments with the rotating electrode are in complete agreement with those values.


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