Significant Research Contributions of Professor Rama Kant

 

Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) on Rough and Heterogeneous Electrodes

Theories for Diffusion Processes Involving Charge Transfer, Ohmic, Adsorption, Bulk Reaction and EDL Relaxation

 

1. Facile (Nernstian) Charge Transfer

Anomalous Warburg Impedance

 

 

 

Warburg Admittance

 

 

Generalized Warburg Admittance on Randomly Rough Electrode

 

 

Anomalous Warburg Admittance on Finite Fractal Electrode

 

 

Influence of Fractal Dimension, Topothesy and Finest Lengths of Roughness

 

 

Further reading

R. Kant, R. Kumar, V. K.Yadav, J. Phys. Chem. C (Letter), 2008, 112, 4019.

R. Kumar, R. Kant, J. Chem. Sci., 2009, 121, 579.

R. Kant, S.K.Rangarajan, J. Electroanal. Chem. C, 2003, 552, 141.

 

 

2.   Partial Diffusion Limited Charge Transfer

 

Theory of Quasireversible Charge Transfer Admittance on Rough Electrode

 

Quasireversible Admittance

 

 

Generalized Quasireversible Admittance on Randomly Rough Electrode

 

 

 

Anomalous Quasireversible Admittance on Finite Fractal Electrode

 

 

 

Fractal Dimension, Topothesy and Finest Lengths of Roughness

 

 

Further reading

R. Kumar, R. Kant, Electrochimica Acta 56(2011)7112.

R. Kant, S.K.Rangarajan, J. Electroanal. Chem. C, 2003, 552, 141.

Bard, A. J.; Faulkner, L. R. Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and Application; Wiley: New York, NY, U.S., 1980.

 

 

3.   Facile (Nernstian) Charge Transfer with Ohmic Corrections

Anomalous Warburg Impedance: Influence of Uncompensated

Solution Resistance

 

 

Warburg Admittance with Uncompensated Solution Resistance

 

 

Generalized Warburg Admittance with Ohmic Correction on Randomly Rough Electrode

 

 

Anomalous Warburg Admittance with Ohmic Correction on Finite Fractal Electrode

 

 

 

Influence of Ohmic Resistance on the Response of Finite Fractal Electrode

 

 

 

 

Further reading

Shruti Srivastav, R. Kant, J. Phys. Chem C 115 ( 2011) 12232.

Bard, A. J.; Faulkner, L. R. Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and Application; Wiley: New York, NY, U.S., 1980.

 

 

 

4.   Adsorption Precedes Facile Charge Transfer

Generalization of Reduced Frumkin-Melik-Gaikazyan (FMG) Model for Rough Electrodes

 

 

Reduced FMG Admittance

Reduced FMG Admittance for Randomly Rough Electrode

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Anomalous Reduced FMG Admittance for Finite Fractal Electrode

Influence of Adsorption Parameter on Fractal Electrode Response

 

Further reading

R. Kumar, R. Kant, Electrochimica Acta 95 (2013) 275.

Bard, A. J.; Faulkner, L. R. Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and Application; Wiley: New York, NY, U.S., 1980.

 

 

 

5. Facile Charge Transfer Coupled to Bulk Reaction

 

Theory of Generalized Gerischer Admittance of Realistic Fractal Electrode

 

 

Gerischer Admittance

 

 

Generalized Gerischer Admittance for Randomly Rough Electrode

 

 

Anomalous Gerischer Admittance for Finite Fractal Electrode

 

 

 

 

Influence of Bulk Reaction Kinetics on the Response of Fractal Electrode

 

 

Further reading

R. Kumar, R. Kant, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2009, 113, 19558.

 

 

6. Blocking and Partially-Blocking Electrode

 

Theory of Electric Double Layer Admittance of Heterogenous Electrode

 

Debye-Falkenhagen Admittance for Partially-Blocking Electrode

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Further reading

M. Birla Singh and R. Kant, J. Electroanal. Chem., 2013, 704, 197-207.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2013.07.007

 

 

 

 


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