Semiconductor oxides like ZnO, TiO2, etc. used as anode materials but why not used as cathode materials?

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Mohammad Kooti

This subject was fully discussed I RG before. Please check the answers.

Good luck!

Lyubov Chigirinskaya

Metal oxides are not thermodynamically stable at a cathodic polarization since could be reduced to a metallic state.

Ameen Abdelrahman

no free electron in d- shell orbital 4s2,3d 0& 4s2,4d 10

Madiha Sabeen

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