生物电分析化学 Electroanalytical Chemsitry and Its Biological Applications 主讲人：刘宏 教授 2014 年秋

1. 生物电分析化学Electroanalytical Chemsitry and Its Biological Applications主讲人：刘宏 教授2014年秋

2. Mass-transfer-controlledelectrochemical process (传质控制的电化学过程) • Mass transfer • (传质过程) • LimitingCurrent • (极限电流) • Chronoamperometry • (计时电位法)

3. Mass Transfer Nernst-Plank Equation: If the solution is kept still and excess supporting electrolyte (KCl or KNO3) is added to the solution, the contribution of convection and migration can be negligible . Diffusion: Migration: Convection:

4. Linear Diffusion Fick's Laws of Diffusion Jo(x, t) - the flux of a substance О at a given location x at a time t unit: mol/s/cm2 Fick's second law Fick's second law pertains to the change in concentration of О with time

5. General Geometry The general formulation of Fick's second law for any geometry is

6. Planar electrode/linear diffusion Boundary conditions: Current-time response (Cottrell equation): 2(Dot)1/2 – thickness of diffusion layer Concentration profile

7. Experimental Limitation • Limitations in the recording device. • Charging current • Convection

8. Spherical electrode/diffusion Concentration profile: Boundary conditions: Diffusion current: Which means:

9. Microscopic/Geometric Area Diffusion current for a planar electrode: Diffusion current for a spherical electrode: Microscopic area: Am Geometric area: Ag Roughness factor = Am/Ag Routinely polished metal electrodes: 2-3 Am can be estimated by measuring either the double-layer capacitance or the charge required to form or to strip a compact monolayer electrolytically from the surface.

10. Microscopic/Geometric Area For experiments with measurement times of 1 ms to 10 s, the diffusion layer is several micrometers to even hundreds of micrometers thick. The electrode appears flat, and the area of the diffusion field is the geometric area of the electrode. However, for transient experiments involving a much shorter time scale (i.e. 100 ns), the diffusion layer is only 10 nm thick, so the surface roughness is not negligible.

11. Ultramicroelectrode (UME) UME is an electrode having at least one dimension (such as the radius of a disk or the width of a band) smaller than 25 mm. For spherical or hemispherical UME, 3 nm radius Pt nanoelectrode Steady-state current: (For both sphere and hemisphere electrode) (For only sphere electrode)

12. Steady-state current for disk UME

13. Steady-state current for band UME

14. General Geometry

15. Chronoamperometricreversetechnique Forwardstep: Reversestep:

16. Chronocoulometry

17. Chronocoulometricreversetechnique

18. PotentialSweepTechniqeus Linearsweepvoltametry (LSV, 线性扫描伏安法): Cyclic voltametry （CV, 循环伏安法）:

19. LSV Current： Peakcurrent： Assumption: the electrode kinetics is very fast. The surface concentration of both O and R is dictated by Nernst equation.

20. LSV Peakpotential： Half peakpotential：

21. CV

22. CV For a nernstian reaction with stable prodcut: ipc/ipa = 1 △Ep = 2.303RT/nF = 59/n (mV) at 25 oC

23. Ultramicroelectrode Current from spherical UME is the sum of currents from linear and spherical diffusion. Currentfromthe linear diffusion (planeelectrode)

24. Nonfaradaic processes Charging current in LSV and CV

25. Assignment • 1. • What is the diffusion layer, if the diffusion coefficient, D = 10-5 cm2/s, plot the thickness of the diffusion layer as a function of time. If the surface roughness of the electrode is 20 nm, how long it takes for the thickness of the diffusion layer to be ten times of the surface roughness. At this time, does the microscopic area of the electrode have an influence on the diffusion current?