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Diffusion in the Absence of Convection: Steady State and Nonsteady State

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Electrochemical processes occurring at the electrode-electrolyte interface involve either a solid-solid, liquid-liquid, solid-liquid, or gas-liquid-solid interfaces. The rate at which reactants arrive at the reaction surface plays an important role in the kinetics of heterogeneous reactions, including electrochemical reactions. Therefore, transport phenomena (migration, diffusion, and convection) are quite relevant in most cases as they contribute to the kinetics of the overall processes occurring at each electrode of any electrochemical cell. Transport phenomena become important in different fields of applied electrochemistry, such as electrochemical cell design, current distribution, and optimization problems, but they are also of fundamental importance for the methodological approach of electrochemical kinetics when the understanding of the electrochemical reactions at the molecular mechanistic level is attempted.(1–3)

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Marchiano, S.L., Arvia, A.J. (1983). Diffusion in the Absence of Convection: Steady State and Nonsteady State. In: Yeager, E., Bockris, J.O., Conway, B.E., Sarangapani, S. (eds) Comprehensive Treatise of Electrochemistry. Comprehensive Treatise of Electrochemistry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6690-8_2

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