Analytical expression of non steady-state concentration profiles at planar electrode for the CE mechanism英文文献资料.docVIP

Vol.2, No.11, 1318-1325 (2010) Natural Science /10.4236/ns.2010.211160 Analytical expression of non steady-state concentration profiles at planar electrode for the CE mechanism Vincent Michael Raj Margret PonRani, Lakshmanan Rajendren Department of Mathematics, The Madura College, Madurai, India; raj_sms@ Received 3 August 2010; revised 5 September 2010; accepted 8 September 2010. ABSTRACT CE mechanism at a hemispherical electrode. Lavagnini et al .[3] employed the hopscotch method and a confor- mal map to numerically simulate CE mechanism at a planar electrode. Values of limiting current were ana- lysed for a range of equilibrium constants and rate con- stants. There have been many previous theoretical de- scriptions of the diffusion limiting current for the CE mechanism. In Reference [4], Fleischmann et al. dem- onstrate that Neumann’s integral theorem can be used to simulate CE mechanism at a disc electrode. However, to the best of the author’s knowledge, no purely analytical expressions for the non-steady-state concentrations of these CE mechanisms have been reported. The purpose of this communication is to derive approximate analyti- cal expressions for the non-steady-state concentrations of the species for all values of m1 , m2 , k1 , k2 , k3 and k4 using Homotopy perturbation method. The analytical solutions of the non-steady-state concentrations of species at a planar micro- electrode are presented. These simple new ap- proximate expressions of concentrations are valid for all values of time and possible values of rate constants. Analytical equations are given to describe the current when the homogeneous equilibrium position lies heavily in favour of the electroinactive species. Working surfaces are presented for the variation of limiting current with a homogeneous kinetic parameter and equilibrium constant. Moreover, in this work we empl