화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Vol.142, No.12, 4175-4180, 1995
Diffusion Toward Fractal, Interfaces Potentiostatic, Galvanostatic, and Linear Sweep Voltammetric Techniques
Diffusion to fractal electrodes has been investigated by three different techniques for the oxidation of ferrocyanide in a gel electrolyte : the current response to a potential step, the potential response to a current step, and the current response to a linearly increasing potential. The current density us. time relationship under potentiostatic control, the transition time vs. current density under galvanostatic control, and the peak current density vs, sweep rate in a voltammetric experiment all followed power laws similar to those describing the experiments carried out with a planar electrode. The usual -0.5 exponent, however, became -(d-1)/2 in the case of a fractal electrode of dimension d. The experimental results were analyzed and described by solving a generalized diffusion equation involving a fractional derivative operator.