Selectivity control in anodic gas evolving reactions on Ru based oxides - presented by Prof. Dr. Petr Krtil and Professor Gary Attard

Selectivity control in anodic gas evolving reactions on Ru based oxides

Prof. Dr. Petr Krtil

Prof. Dr. Petr Krtil
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Surface Pourbaix diagram - RuO2
Petr Krtil
20b + CI(Oc)2
20b + OHc + O2
Chlorides bind directly on Ru
CIER
at low potentials and at
quite a low pH (pH<0)
Chlorides adsorb via oxygen
20th + Oc
bridges if the overpotential
is sufficiently positive (n >
0.25 V) and the pH remains
20Hc
around 1 and below
Hansen H.A. et al, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2010, (1), 283.
J. Heyrovsky Institute
Department of Nanocatalysis, J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague, Czech Republic
of Physical Chemistry
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References
  • 1.
    H. A. Hansen et al. (2010) Electrochemical chlorine evolution at rutile oxide (110) surfaces. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
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And try to have a look at how we can really rationalize this thing. The fact that we have this correlation between the mass one Kren exter and the Chlorine Evolution selectivity or oxygen evolution selectivity is a nice kind of an indicator, but probably it's not sufficient for us really to pin down what is the actual origin or how we can really very atomically change the selectivity of the surface.

The only information we can get about this or only proof we can get about the actual origin of the selective would be if we try to have really a tool which can follow what's going on with the oxygen, not with the crime, but at least with the oxygen on the surface.

The problem with this one is that there is not that much or there's not an easy approach for that, but to use an X ray absorption spectroscopy on the oxygen edge. But that's extremely demanding because the absorption energy or the absorption k edge for oxygen is about 500 electron volts. And that's an environment which is extremely hostile towards the electrochemical experiments because while there is plenty of water, plenty of all the materials which absorb quite strongly under these conditions.

But the point is what we really have to do and what we have to follow and what we believe, at least from the ex travelings, we were trying to run at the moment that we perform is the behavior in which we can really put down the change of the absorption of a chlorine at the surface from the mode where it is bound straight to the metals into the range where it's not bound at all to the bound or to the situation at which the oxygen is bound of oxygen.

And I hope that it wasn't another year. Gary will be a difficult job to to, to, to usher the, the paper which was based on the soft x ray absorption spectroscopy and operan conditions which we hope will be able to report you best future.

And again, because I'm quite sure I'm talking for more than 30 minutes already.