The electrode reactions of silver on a silver bromide single crystal were observed employing a current step method with a small amount of electricity passed. Special attention was paid to the preparation of the electrode contact. From the overvoltage change, the kinetic parameters, iO, Fv and aO were obtained in the temperature range 300–400°C. It is concluded that the reactions proceed with two steps, the one is a formation of interfacial silver ions, through a charge transfer process and the other the incorporation of the formed ion into the electrolyte crystal, which is a specific character for the solid electrolyte system. In this system, the iterfacial silver ion seems to be incorporated through a vacant site of lattice with an accompanying surface diffusion. 相似文献
The electrochemical behaviour of silver/silver oxides electrodes in 1 N KOH or 1 N KOH + methanol have been studied by measuring current-potential and impedance-potential curves under the potential sweep in the cathodic direction starting from the AgO formation region.Two specific anodic current peaks A and X were observed in current-potential curves. It was concluded that X was due to the incomplete oxidation of Ag2O to AgO under the anodic sweep or due to the partial decomposition of AgO layer, and A was due to the catalytic reaction of AgO with methanol followed by the electrochemical oxidation of Ag2O to AgO.The values of the impedance tend to decrease in the vicinity of the peak A at the low frequency, which may be attributed to the reduction of AgO with methanol. 相似文献
The antibacterial activity of silver has long been known and has found a variety of applications because its toxicity to human cells is considerably lower than to bacteria. The most widely documented uses are prophylactic treatment of burns and water disinfection. However, the mechanisms by which silver kills cells are not known. Information on resistance mechanisms is apparently contradictory and even the chemistry of Ag(+) in such systems is poorly understood.Silver binds to many cellular components, with membrane components probably being more important than nucleic acids. It is difficult to know whether strong binding reflects toxicity or detoxification: some sensitive bacterial strains have been reported as accumulating more silver than the corresponding resistant strain, in others the reverse apparently occurs. In several cases resistance has been shown to be plasmid mediated. The plasmids are reported as difficult to transfer, and can also be difficult to maintain, as we too have found. Attempts to find biochemical differences between resistant and sensitive strains have met with limited success: differences are subtle, such as increased cell surface hydrophobicity in a resistant Escherichia coli.Some of the problems are due to defining conditions in which resistance can be observed. Silver(I) has been shown to bind to components of cell culture media, and the presence of chloride is necessary to demonstrate resistance. The form of silver used must also be considered. This is usually water soluble AgNO(3), which readily precipitates as AgCl. The clinically preferred compound is the highly insoluble silver sulfadiazine, which does not cause hypochloraemia in burns. It has been suggested that resistant bacteria are those unable to bind Ag(+) more tightly than does chloride. It may be that certain forms of insoluble silver are taken up by cells, as has been found for nickel. Under our experimental conditions, silver complexed by certain ligands is more cytotoxic than AgNO(3), yet with related ligands is considerably less toxic. There is evidently a subtle interplay of solubility and stability which should reward further investigation. 相似文献
The voltammetric behaviour of vitreous carbon/chemically precipitated silver hydroxide layer and silver/electrochemically formed silver oxide layer electrodes are compared. As the former type of electrode is free from silver substrate contributions during the oxidation-reduction cycles (ORC) the voltammetric data indicate the occurrence of soluble Ag(I) species in the gel-like silver hydroxide matrix. Soluble species can be formed during the ORC as a consequence of AgOH formation at the early stages of the oxidation and reduction processes. Nucleation and growth of new phases produce a non-homogeneous layer structure and a decrease in the amount of active material participating in the ORC under preset conditions. 相似文献
The potentiodynamic formation of AgI films by reaction (1) on an Ag rotating disc electrode was studied and the results were compared to previous work regarding the formation of anodic AgBr and Ag2S films, In dilute iodide solutions, a very porous AgI film is formed at a rate controlled by the diffusion of I? to the electrode surface. At higher iodide concentrations, and particularly in high conductivity supporting electrolytes, a porous AgI film forms at a rate initially limited by ionic migration in solution followed by diffusion of I? in the pores of the AgI film.In 1 M NaI solutions, when AgI becomes rather soluble, thick granular AgI films form at a rate limited by the solid-state migration of ions in the bulk of the film. On the basis of the low-field model of film growth, the ionic conductivity of these AgI films has been determined to be 8.7 × 10?5 Scm?1相似文献
We investigated the effect of the pulse current density, current-on time and current-off time on the surface roughness of
a silver thin film that was pulse-plated using a silver cyanide-thiocyanate electrolyte. The interface width, which is defined
by the root mean square of the fluctuations in the height of the surface, is found to decrease rapidly with the current-off
time and to increase with current-on time. However, it should be noted that when the value of current-off time is sufficiently
large, the interface width decreases with pulse current density. These experimental results indicate that by appropriate selection
of the current-on time and current-off time, we can fabricate silver electrodeposits with minimal surface roughness. We have
discussed the influence of these three parameters on the interface width from the viewpoint of the cathode potential and adsorption. 相似文献