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SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research International Journal of Electrochemistry Volume 2011, Article ID 412731, 6 pages doi:10.4061/2011/412731 Research Article Surface Potential of Polycrystalline Hematite in Aqueous Medium ˇ ´ − Tajana Preocanin, Filip Stipic, Atida Selmani, and Nikola Kallay Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Horvatovac 102A, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia ˇ Correspondence should be addressed to Tajana Preocanin, tajana@chem.pmf.hr Received 30 April 2011; Accepted 14 June 2011 ´ Academic Editor: Jose H. Zagal ˇ Copyright © 2011 Tajana Preocanin et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The surface potential of polycrystalline hematite in aqueous sodium perchlorate environment as a function of pH was examined. Surface potential of hematite was obtained from measured electrode potential of a nonporous polycrystalline hematite electrode. Acidic solution was titrated with base, and the backward titration with acid was performed. Substantial hysteresis was obtained which enabled location of the point of zero potential and equilibrium values of surface potentials. The theoretical interpretation of the equilibrium data was performed by applying the surface complexation model and the thermodynamic equilibrium constants for the first and the second step of surface protonation was obtained as log K ◦ = 11.3