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JOURNAL OF APPLIED ELECTROCHEMISTRY
Volume 40, Issue 2, Pages 375-382Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10800-009-0006-0
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Ruthenium (III) hexacyanoferrate; Electrode modification; Electrocatalysis; Hydrazine oxidation
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- CNPq
- FAPEMA
- PETROBRAS
- Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation
- National Research Council of Canada
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A ruthenium (III) hexacyanoferrate (Ru(HCF)) film coated on a glassy carbon electrode was explored as an electrocatalyst for hydrazine oxidation. Surface cyclic voltammograms of Ru(HCF) film showed four reversible one-electron redox waves. Two, which corresponded to the redox processes of Ru(III)/Ru(IV) and Fe(II)/Fe(III), were identified to be responsible for the catalytic activity of hydrazine oxidation. Kinetic studies using potential scan rate dependency, Tafel plots, and rotating disk electrode technique found that this catalyzed hydrazine oxidation was a complete four-electron/four-proton process producing N-2, with the rate determining step possibly a one-electron process with a transfer coefficient (alpha) of similar to 0.31-0.36. In addition, based on kinetic analysis and findings in the literature, we propose a possible reaction mechanism for catalyzed hydrazine oxidation in order to facilitate further understanding.
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