I am trying to use tafel plot for my work, but i am finding difficulty to plot tafel plot and I am not confident of my results.
Dear Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjya,
in order to address your question, one possibility is as follows (I am assuming a standard half-cell electrochemical setup):
1) you determine carefully your potential scale with primary standards (e.g., the reversible hydrogen electrode);
2) you collect cyclic voltammogramms of your electrode bubbling oxygen in the liquid electrolyte;
3) you remove oxygen by bubbling Ar or N2 in the liquid electrolyte, and collect another voltammogramm on the very same electrode, in the same conditions;
4) you subtract the trace collected in N2 from the trace collected in O2. By doing so, you remove most capacitive currents, leaving only the faradic ORR current;
5) you correct the faradic currents from other interferences (e.g., mass-transport contributions, if you are working with a rotating-disk electrode);
6) you carry out Tafel analysis;
7) last but not least, you compare your results with the literature.
Hope it helps!
Best Regards
Enrico
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Thanks Enrico for your answer for your answer, But I am finding to do the tafel analysis actually, Should I extract the kinetic current by using K-L plot or should I do the tafel analysis on the RDE LSV itself ?.
Dear Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjya,
you can do the Tafel analysis on the RDE LSV itself. However:
1) you should do the LSV fast enough to prevent the contamination of the surface of the electrocatalyst, and slow enough to minimize capacitive currents. A scan speed between 5 and 20 mV/sec is generally OK;
2) you should be careful to remove all spurious contributions from your faradic currents (e.g., capacitive currents and mass-transport currents)
K-L plot is generally used to study ORR selectivity (if you don't have a RRDE); it is not mandatory to study ORR mechanism at low ORR overpotentials.
Hope it helps!
Best Regards
Enrico
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