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Charge Transfer Kinetics at the Solid-Solid Interface in Porous Electrodes

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 نشر من قبل Peng Bai
 تاريخ النشر 2014
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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Interfacial charge transfer is widely assumed to obey Butler-Volmer kinetics. For certain liquid-solid interfaces, Marcus-Hush-Chidsey theory is more accurate and predictive, but it has not been applied to porous electrodes. Here we report a simple method to extract the charge transfer rates in carbon-coated LiFePO4 porous electrodes from chronoamperometry experiments, obtaining curved Tafel plots that contradict the Butler-Volmer equation but fit the Marcus-Hush-Chidsey prediction over a range of temperatures. The fitted reorganization energy matches the Born solvation energy for electron transfer from carbon to the iron redox site. The kinetics are thus limited by electron transfer at the solid-solid (carbon-LixFePO4) interface, rather than by ion transfer at the liquid-solid interface, as previously assumed. The proposed experimental method generalizes Chidseys method for phase-transforming particles and porous electrodes, and the results show the need to incorporate Marcus kinetics in modeling batteries and other electrochemical systems.

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