scholarly journals Electrochemical flow cell enabling operando probing of electrocatalyst surfaces by X-ray spectroscopy and diffraction

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 5402-5408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Farmand ◽  
Alan T. Landers ◽  
John C. Lin ◽  
Jeremy T. Feaster ◽  
Jeffrey W. Beeman ◽  
...  

Grazing incidence cell probes catalyst surface during high current operation with improved mass transport.

2016 ◽  
Vol 163 (10) ◽  
pp. H906-H912 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Binninger ◽  
Emiliana Fabbri ◽  
Alexandra Patru ◽  
Marios Garganourakis ◽  
Jun Han ◽  
...  

2011 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 1546-1553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Veder ◽  
Ayman Nafady ◽  
Graeme Clarke ◽  
Ross P. Williams ◽  
Roland De Marco ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 366-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Clancy ◽  
Mark J. Styles ◽  
Colleen J. Bettles ◽  
Nick Birbilis ◽  
Miao Chen ◽  
...  

This paper describes the quantitative measurement, byin situsynchrotron X-ray diffraction (S-XRD) and subsequent Rietveld-based quantitative phase analysis and thickness calculations, of the evolution of the PbO2and PbSO4surface layers formed on a pure lead anode under simulated copper electrowinning conditions in a 1.6 MH2SO4electrolyte at 318 K. This is the first report of a trulyin situS-XRD study of the surface layer evolution on a Pb substrate under cycles of galvanostatic and power interruption conditions, of key interest to the mining, solvent extraction and lead acid battery communities. The design of a novel reflection geometry electrochemical flow cell is also described. Thein situS-XRD results show that β-PbO2forms immediately on the anode under galvanostatic conditions, and undergoes continued growth until power interruption where it transforms to PbSO4. The kinetics of the β-PbO2to PbSO4conversion decrease as the number of cycles increases, whilst the amount of residual PbO2increases with the number of cycles due to incomplete conversion to PbSO4. Conversely, complete transformation of PbSO4to β-PbO2was observed in each cycle. The results of layer thickness calculations demonstrate a significant volume change upon PbSO4to β-PbO2transformation.


2016 ◽  
Vol 163 (10) ◽  
pp. H913-H920 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jérémy Tillier ◽  
Tobias Binninger ◽  
Marios Garganourakis ◽  
Alexandra Patru ◽  
Emiliana Fabbri ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 043106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debajeet K. Bora ◽  
Per-Anders Glans ◽  
John Pepper ◽  
Yi-Sheng Liu ◽  
Chun Du ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 455-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Kehres ◽  
Thomas Pedersen ◽  
Federico Masini ◽  
Jens Wenzel Andreasen ◽  
Martin Meedom Nielsen ◽  
...  

The design, fabrication and performance of a novel and highly sensitive micro-reactor device for performingin situgrazing-incidence X-ray scattering experiments of model catalyst systems is presented. The design of the reaction chamber, etched in silicon on insulator (SIO), permits grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS) in transmission through 10 µm-thick entrance and exit windows by using micro-focused beams. An additional thinning of the Pyrex glass reactor lid allows simultaneous acquisition of the grazing-incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering (GIWAXS).In situexperiments at synchrotron facilities are performed utilizing the micro-reactor and a designed transportable gas feed and analysis system. The feasibility of simultaneousin situGISAXS/GIWAXS experiments in the novel micro-reactor flow cell was confirmed with CO oxidation over mass-selected Ru nanoparticles.


2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 863-864
Author(s):  
Marie Clancy ◽  
Mark J. Styles ◽  
Colleen J. Bettles ◽  
Nick Birbilis ◽  
Miao Chen ◽  
...  

Figures 7 and 8 of the article by Clancyet al.[(2015),J. Synchrotron Rad.22, 366–375] are corrected.


Author(s):  
R. Hutchings ◽  
I.P. Jones ◽  
M.H. Loretto ◽  
R.E. Smallman

There is increasing interest in X-ray microanalysis of thin specimens and the present paper attempts to define some of the factors which govern the spatial resolution of this type of microanalysis. One of these factors is the spreading of the electron probe as it is transmitted through the specimen. There will always be some beam-spreading with small electron probes, because of the inevitable beam divergence associated with small, high current probes; a lower limit to the spatial resolution is thus 2αst where 2αs is the beam divergence and t the specimen thickness.In addition there will of course be beam spreading caused by elastic and inelastic interaction between the electron beam and the specimen. The angle through which electrons are scattered by the various scattering processes can vary from zero to 180° and it is clearly a very complex calculation to determine the effective size of the beam as it propagates through the specimen.


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