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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 14, Issue 20, Pages 7384-7391Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2cp40616k
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- Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI)
- Center for Electrochemical Sciences, Bochum
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Understanding the hydrogen peroxide electrochemistry on platinum can provide information about the oxygen reduction reaction mechanism, whether H2O2 participates as an intermediate or not. The H2O2 oxidation and reduction reaction on polycrystalline platinum is a diffusion-limited reaction in 0.1 M HClO4. The applied potential determines the Pt surface state, which is then decisive for the direction of the reaction: when H2O2 interacts with reduced surface sites it decomposes producing adsorbed OH species; when it interacts with oxidized Pt sites then H2O2 is oxidized to O-2 by reducing the surface. Electronic structure calculations indicate that the activation energies of both processes are low at room temperature. The H2O2 reduction and oxidation reactions can therefore be utilized for monitoring the potential-dependent oxidation of the platinum surface. In particular, the potential at which the hydrogen peroxide reduction and oxidation reactions are equally likely to occur reflects the intrinsic affinity of the platinum surface for oxygenated species. This potential can be experimentally determined as the crossing-point of linear potential sweeps in the positive direction for different rotation rates, hereby defined as the ORR-corrected mixed potential (c-MP).
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