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http://dx.doi.org/10.5229/JKES.2006.9.2.095

Electrochemical Study of a Single Particle of Active Material for Secondary Battery using the Microelectrode  

Kim Ho-Sung (Energy & Applied Optics Team, Gwangju Research Center, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology)
Lee Choong-Gon (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Hanbat National University)
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Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society / v.9, no.2, 2006 , pp. 95-99 More about this Journal
Abstract
Electrochemical properties were studied for a single particle of active material of hydrogen storage alloy $(MmNi_{3.55}Co_{0.75}Mn_{0.4}Al_{0.3})$ and nickel hydroxides $(NiOH)_2$ for the secondary Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH) batteries using the microelectrode, which was manipulated to make electrical contact with an active material particle for cyclic voltammograms (CV) and potential-step experiments. As a result of CV test, it was found that three kinds of hydrogen oxidation peaks at -0.9, -0.75 and -0.65 V and hydrogen evolution peak at -0.98 V for hydrogen storage alloy were separately observed and two kinds of peaks of proton oxidation/reduction at 0.45 and 0.32 V and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) at 0.6 V for nickel hydroxides were also more clearly observed. Furthermore hydrogen diffusion coefficient within a single particle was also found to vary the order between $10^{-9}\;and\;10^{-10}cm^2/s$ over the course of hydrogenation and dehydrogenation process for potential-step experiments.
Keywords
Ni-MH battery; Single Spherical Particle; Microelectrode; Metal Hydride; Nickel Hydroxide;
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