Abstract

An experimental and theoretical study has been made of the sinusoidal potential modulation of a copper rotating disk electrode in acidic copper sulfate solution. The mathematical model takes into account the fluctuations of the surface concentration, the effect of the double capacitance, the surface overpotential, and the ohmic resistance in the electrolyte. Numerical computations were performed to show the effect of alternating voltage (av) on the shape of direct current polarization curves, the changes in the apparent rest potential, the apparent exchange current density and the apparent Tafel slopes. The agreement between the theory and the experiment was within ±15%. At sufficiently high av frequencies, the model can be further used to predict the av modulation of a rotating hemispherical electrode.

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