The electrochemical Peltier heat for the adsorption and desorption of hydrogen on a platinized platinum electrode in sulfuric acid solution

Autor: Shigeo Shibata, Masae P. Sumino
Rok vydání: 1985
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Zdroj: Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry and Interfacial Electrochemistry. 193:135-143
ISSN: 0022-0728
DOI: 10.1016/0022-0728(85)85058-0
Popis: The electrochemical Peltier heat for the surface hydrogen process at a pt-Pt electrode in 0.5 M H2SO4 solution was measured under controlled-potential and controlled-current polarizations using a thick film thermistor electrode. The observed Peltier heat is related to the entropy change of the reversible hydrogen process. In the hydrogen potential region, four stepwise heat changes were observed. These heat changes corresponds to the adsorption of four hydrogen species with different adsorption strenghts, respectively. The most weakly bonded hydrogen species Hw exhibited the largest Peltier heat. This is possibly due to the strong interaction of Hw with the water molecules of the solvent. Peltier effects for the other three adsorption species are explained in terms of the nature of the adsorption sites where hydrogen atoms adsorb with a different mobility or vibrational movement, resulting in a different entropy.
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