Significant Research Contributions of Professor Rama Kant

Chronoapmerometry with Single Potential Step on Rough Electrodes

Theories for Charge Transfer, Ohmic, Quasireversibility, Bulk Reaction

 

1. Facile (Nernstian) Charge Transfer

 

Anomalous Cottrellian Response

 

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Equation for anomalous diffusion flux on random electrode

 

Equation for anomalous diffusion flux on self-affine fractal electrode

Further reading

R. Kant, S. K. Jha, J. Phys. Chem. C, (Letter) 2007, 111, 14040.

R. Kant, J. Phys. Chem. B , 1997, 101,3781.

R. Kant, J. Phys. Chem. , 1994, 98,1663.

R. Kant, S.K.Rangarajan, J. Electroanal. Chem. C, 1994, 368, 1.

R. Kant, Phys. Rev. Lett. , 1993,70,4094.

 

2. Facile (Nernstian) Charge Transfer with Ohmic Corrections

Anomalous Cottrellian Current with Solution Resistance Corrections

 

 

Equation for potentiostatic current transient on random electrode

 

 

Graph with random electrode roughness model

 

 

 

3.   Quasi-reversible Charge Transfer

Theory of partial diffusion-limited interfacial transfer/reaction

on realistic fractals

 

 

Equation for partial diffusion-limited current on self-affine fractal electrode

 

Further reading

S. K. Jha, R. Kant, J. Electoanal. Chem. 2010, 641, 78.

R. Kant, S.K.Rangarajan, J. Electroanal. Chem. 1995, 396, 285.

 

4.   Quasi-reversible Charge Transfer with Ohmic Corrections

Effect of uncompensated solution resistance on

quasireversible charge transfer at rough and finite fractal electrode

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Further reading

S. Srivastav and R. Kant, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2010, 114, 10066.

R. Kant, M. Sarathbabu, Shruti Srivastav,  Electrochimica Acta,  56 (2011)4467.

 

 

5. Facile Charge Transfer Coupled to Bulk Reaction

 

Theory of Potentiostatic Current Transients for

Coupled Catalytic Reaction at Rough Electrode

 

 

Generalized Danckwerts Equation for Coupled Catalytic Reaction at Rough Electrode

 

 

 

 

 

 

Further reading

S. K. Jha, R. Kant, Electrochimica Acta, 55 (2010) 7266-7275

P. Delahay, G.L. Stiehl, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 74 (1952) 3500.

J. Koutecky, Collect. Czech. Commun. 18 (1953) 597.

 

 

 


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