Influence on the thin layer spectroelectrochemistry: Diffusion within a thin layer cell

Abstract

The potential step and cyclic voltammetric experiments in the thin layer cell were studied by the digital simulation method in this work. A relationship between the time needed for exhaustive electrolysis of the electroactive species and the thickness of the thin layer cell was obtained. On the basis of this formula, the lower time limit for a kinetic plot of the following chemical reaction can be estimated. For the cyclic voltammetry, a semiempirical formula was derived for the peak-peak potential difference ( ΔEp) in terms of the sweep rate ( v), thickness of the cell ( d), diffusion coefficient ( D) and electron transfer number ( n) n n ΔEp 59 − n ΔEp = 0.328( nF RT vd 2 D ) 1.30