The corona of a surface bubble promotes electrochemical reactions

Gas bubbles forming on the surface of an electrode, a phenomenon common to several industrial electrolytic processes, are usually perceived as inert, passivating entities. Here, the authors show that that this general assumption does not hold for gas bubbles masking anodes operating in water.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yan B. Vogel, Cameron W. Evans, Mattia Belotti, Longkun Xu, Isabella C. Russell, Li-Juan Yu, Alfred K. K. Fung, Nicholas S. Hill, Nadim Darwish, Vinicius R. Gonçales, Michelle L. Coote, K. Swaminathan Iyer, Simone Ciampi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20186-0