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JOURNAL OF ELECTROANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 481, Issue 2, Pages 222-226Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0728(99)00480-5
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electrochemical impedance; solid electrodes; double layer capacitance; ideal polarisability; capacitance dispersion; constant phase element
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The relevance of the concept of ideal polarisability to solid electrodes displaying constant phase angle behaviour (constant phase element (cpe)) is reconsidered in the context of the recent dispute in this Journal [Zoltowski, 443 (1998) 149; Lang and Heusler, 457 (1998) 257]. It is shown that the cpe as a model of the electrochemical interface is 'unphysical' due, first of all to unattainability of the steady state after potential or current perturbation. It is also concluded that the thermodynamic equations governing the equilibria of an ideally polarisable electrode cannot be applied to an electrode modelled by cpe because the notions of the charge and double layer capacitance (C-d) are irrelevant in the framework of the cpe model. As a consequence, procedures of calculation of C-d from impedance data modelled by cpe are unjustified. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.
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