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Electrosynthesis of layered double hydroxides of nickel with trivalent cations

1994; Elsevier BV; Volume: 52; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0378-7753(94)01939-8

ISSN

1873-2755

Autores

L. Indira, Mridula Dixit, P. Vishnu Kamath,

Tópico(s)

Inorganic Chemistry and Materials

Resumo

Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) of nickel with aluminium, chromium, manganese and iron, with the same structure as α-nickel hydroxide, have been electrosynthesized. This paves the way for their possible electrochemical impregnation in sintered nickel plaques for use as electrodes in nickel/cadmium batteries. All these LDHs stabilize the α-nickel hydroxide structure in alkaline media and retain electrochemical activity, as evidenced by cyclic voltammetric studies. The nickel-aluminium LDH shows the highest coulombic efficiency, while the nickel-iron LDH may prove to be unsuitable as a battery electrode material as it catalyzes oxygen evolution by 50 mV, as compared with pure nickel hydroxide.

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