Effect of impurities on the enhanced catalytic activity for hydrogen evolution in high purity magnesium
By S. Fajardo and G.S. Frankel
Published in Electrochimica Acta
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2015
Abstract
The accumulation of impurities more noble than magnesium (Mg) during dissolution has been suggested to be responsible for the enhanced catalytic activity of hydrogen evolution reaction on anodically polarized Mg surfaces. The effect of impurities on the so-called Negative Difference Effect was studied by galvanostatic experiments coupled with simultaneous measurements of \H2\ gas collection on electrodes of high purity (99.98% Mg) and ultra-high purity Mg (99.9999% Mg). The concentration of impurities was shown to have a strong effect on the anodic hydrogen evolution (HE), as the \HE\ rates decreased with increasing purity of the Mg. However, \HE\ rates were very large for both Mg electrodes when they were subjected to anodic polarization. These observations demonstrate that, even though the concentration of impurities influences anodic \HE\ on dissolving Mg surfaces, this phenomenon cannot be fully explained in terms of impurity enrichment. The effects of Fe enrichment and the corrosion product film are shown to play a small role in the enhanced \HE\ rates during anodic polarization. The large enhancement of \HE\ rate during anodic dissolution was instead shown to be associated with hydrogen evolved at the regions of anodic dissolution.
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