Volume 3, Numbers 7-8, 446-456, DOI: 10.1007/s100080050180

Electrochemically induced transformations of heteropolyanions: new electroactive metal oxide films studied by the electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance

Bineta Keita, Essadik Abdeljalil, François Girard, Sophie Gerschwiler, Louis Nadjo, Roland Contant and Christian Haut

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Abstract

New oxide films have been electrodeposited from [P2Mo18O62]6− by potential cycling in mildly acidic aqueous media. To obtain an adherent and persistent film, it is necessary that more than six electrons/molecule be fixed on the framework of the heteropolyanion. The film is then studied in pure supporting electrolyte. In this medium, a remarkable current increase is observed during the potential cycling. Whether the film is deposited on a glassy carbon electrode or on the gold electrode of an electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (EQCM), exactly the same steady current increase up to a maximum is obtained in cyclic voltammetric measurements. The EQCM reveals a steady mass increase during the continuous cycling of the film in the supporting electrolyte. This behaviour is interpreted as featuring an irreversible water and electrolyte intake into the film, up to a maximum, after which the phenomena observed during reduction and oxidation processes are taken as featuring intercalation/deintercalation, respectively. This behaviour is much the same as described in the literature for WO3 and MoO3 bronzes, except that the present films seem very stable and have shown no tendency to dissolve or deactivate.

Key words Heteropolyanion - Metal oxides - Intercalation/deintercalation - Electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance - Cyclic voltammetry

Received: 2 December 1998 / Accepted: 26 January 1999

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