TRANSITION METAL-BASED HYDROGEN ELECTRODES IN ALKALINE-SOLUTION - ELECTROCATALYSIS ON NICKEL BASED BINARY ALLOY COATINGS

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RAJ, IA
VASU, KI
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[1] Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi
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10.1007/BF01012468
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O646 [电化学、电解、磁化学];
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081704 ;
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Nickel-molybdenum, nickel-zinc, nickel-cobalt, nickel-tungsten, nickel-iron and nickel chromium binary alloy codeposits, obtained through electrodeposition methods on mild steel strips, have been characterized with the objective of qualitatively comparing and assessing their electrocatalytic activities as hydrogen electrodes in alkaline solution. It has been concluded that their electrocatalytic effects for the hydrogen evolution reaction rank in the following order: Ni-Mo > Ni-Zn (after leaching Zn in KOH) > Ni-Co > Ni-W > Ni-Fe > Ni-Cr > Ni plated steel. Further investigations on the alloy electrocatalysts have revealed that the cathodic overpotential contribution to the electrolysis voltage can be brought down by 0.3 V when compared with conventional cathodes. The best and most stable hydrogen evolving cathode, based on nickel-molybdenum alloy, exhibited an overpotential of about 0.18 V for over 1500 h of continuous electrolysis in 6 m KOH at 300 mA cm-2 and 353 K. The salient features of the coatings, such as physical characteristics, chemical composition, crystal structure of the alloy phases and the varying effects of the catalytic activation method were analysed with a view to correlating the micro-structural characteristics of the coatings with the hydrogen adsorption process. The stability under open-circuit conditions, the tolerance to electrochemical corrosion and the long term stability of nickel-molybdenum alloy cathodes were very encouraging. An attempt to identify the pathway for the hydrogen evolution reaction on these alloy coatings was made, in view of the very low apparent activation energy values obtained experimentally. © 1990 Chapman and Hall Ltd.
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