化学专业英语文献New_galvanic_cell_designs_for_minimizing_electrode.pdf

Bull. Mater. Sci., Vol. 17, No. 6, November 1994, pp. 1155-1166. © Printed in India. New galvanic cell designs for minimizing electrode polarization K T JACOB* and S U K A N Y A M U K H O P A D H Y A Y Department of Metallurgy and *Materials Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India Abstract. New galvanic cell designs, incorporating one or two buffer electrodes, ate developed to minimize the electrode polarization caused by electrochcmical permeability of the electrolyte at high temperature. When a nonpolarizable reference electrode is employed, a cell with three-electrode compartments can be used to measure the chemical potential of oxygen in two-phase fields of ternary systems, associated with one degree of freedom at constant temperalure. A buffer electrode is placed between the reference and measuring electrodes. The buffer electrode, maintained at approximately the same oxygen chemical potential as the measuring electrode, absorbs the semipermeabilityflux of oxygen between reference and measuring electrodes. When the reference electrode is polarizable, two buffer electrodes are required between the reference and measuring electrodes. The reference and reference-buffer electrodes have the same chemical potential of the active species. Similarlythe measuring electrode and its buffer are of approximatelythe same chemical potential. A significant chemical potential difference exists only between the two buffers, which may become polarized due to coupled transport of