Application of variational iteration method and electron transfer mediatorcatalyst composites in modified electrodes英文文献资料.docVIP

Vol.2, No.6, 612-625 (2010) Natural Science /10.4236/ns.2010.26076 Application of variational iteration method and electron transfer mediator/catalyst composites in modified electrodes Alagu Eswari, Lakshmanan Rajendran* The Madura College, Madurai, India; *Corresponding Author: raj_sms@ Received 20 February 2010; revised 23 March 2010; accepted 23 April 2010. ABSTRACT direct electron transfer between the Fermi level of the metal and the ion in solution, the electron transfer is ‘mediated’ by the redox groups present in the thin layer. A large number of different modified electrodes have been made and certain systems have received more at- tention than others. The nonlinear coupled system of diffusion equ- ations are solved analytically for the transport and kinetics of electrons and reactant in the layer of a modified electrode. Analytical expres- sions of concentrations of substrate and me- diator are presented using He’s variational itera- tion method. The approximate expression of cu- rrent for microheterogeneous catalysis at iso- nomer or redox polymer modified electrodes is also obtained. The results of the available limit- ing cases are compared with our results and are found to be in good agreement. Lyons, McCormack, and Bartlett [1] presented an analytical model which quantified the transport and ki- netics in conducting polymer modified electrodes con- taining a homogeneous distribution of spherical mi- croparticulate catalysts. In their paper Lyons, McCor- mack, and Bartlett [1] obtained the analytical expres- sions of the substrate and mediator concentrations for the different values of parameters. Lyons and Bartlett [2] also presented the analytical expressions of substrate and mediator concentrations only for limiting values of di- mensionless parameters. The transport and kinetics of reactions in chemically modified electrodes have been ana