Abstract
A film of silver oxide is grown on an Ag electrode in KOH solutions, by repetitive cyclic voltammograms at a high scan rate of 2500 mV/s. The formed film is used for the electro-oxidation of ethanol in a dilute potassium hydroxide using the cyclic voltammetry technique. Some effective experimental parameters such as the ethanol concentration, KOH concentration, scanning rate, and temperature on the electrocatalytic oxidation of ethanol have been investigated and discussed. The data confirmed that the formed silver oxide electrode behaves as a good catalyst for the electrooxidation of ethanol. The mechanism of oxidation is likely to be dissociative chemisorption involving one electron transfer. The apparent activation energy, E*, for the electrooxidation, was found to be 68.23 kJ/mole, which is considered too high for a pure diffusion process and moderate for a pure adsorption process. Then the charge transfer is probably controlled by a mixed adsorption-diffusion process
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