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Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 687 2012 95–101 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry journal home A kinetic description of Pd electrodeposition under mixed control of charge transfer and diffusion Milad Rezaei, Seyed Hadi Tabaian ?, Davoud Fatmehsari Haghshenas Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology Tehran Polytechnic , Hafez Ave., P.O. Box 15875-4413, Tehran, Iran a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: This work evaluates the kinetics of Pd nanoparticles nucleation and growth at the potential range where Received 20 April 2012 electrodeposition is controlled by both charge transfer and diffusion. For this purpose, Pd electrodepos- Received in revised form 7 October 2012 ition from an aqueous solution containing PdCl 0.001 M and H SO 0.5 M was studied by means of 2 2 4 Accepted 8 October 2012 cyclic voltammetry and potentiostatic current–time transients CTTs . Using the polarization curves, Available online 23 October 2012 regions corresponding to charge transfer control, mixed control and diffusion control were identi?ed. In mixed control region, CTTs study suggested the presence of three processes involving adsorption, Keywords: the ion transfer reaction and 3D progressive nucleation with mixed charge transfer-diffusion controlled Kinetics growth. The kinetic parameters at different electrode potentials within the mixed control region were Electrodeposition Pd nanoparticles estimated through the analysis of CTTs at short times in accordance with the model proposed by Milchev Nucleation and Zapryanova. It was found that the reduction reaction of Pd II ? Pd I – as an ion transfer reaction – Mixed charge transfer-diffusion controlled occurs before the formation of Pd nucleus and its corresponding ion transfer coef?cient was estimated growth a 0.33. i 20