Interactions among metastable pits on heterogeneous electrodes

Organ, Levent; Tiwary, Yogesh; Scully, John R.; Mikhailov, Alexander S.; Hudson, John L.

doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2007.04.110

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Interactions among metastable pits on heterogeneous electrodes

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Mikhailov, Alexander S.
Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;

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Organ, L., Tiwary, Y., Scully, J. R., Mikhailov, A. S., & Hudson, J. L. (2007). Interactions among metastable pits on heterogeneous electrodes. Electrochimica Acta, 52(24), 6784-6792. doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2007.04.110.

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Abstract

A previously developed spatiotemporal model of the interactions among metastable pits on homogeneous electrodes is extended to heterogeneous surfaces with randomly distributed inclusion sites in an otherwise passive electrode. The inclusions are treated as favored sites for pit initiation events. The effect of the spatial density of inclusions on susceptibility to explosive growth in pitting corrosion is investigated. It is shown that there exist critical values of the pit density for the explosive growth of metastable pits that leads to a transition to pitting corrosion. Convective mass transport is shown to alter the density required for explosive growth. The effect of a limitation on the number of times that an inclusion can initiate a pit on the transition to the pitting corrosion is also considered.