CLAUDIA SORINA DUMITRU, MARIANA SIMA, ANCA COJOCARU<br>Electrochemical Studies on the Growth Process <br>of the Zinc Oxide Films from Nitrate Solutions

CLAUDIA SORINA DUMITRU, MARIANA SIMA, ANCA COJOCARU
Electrochemical Studies on the Growth Process
of the Zinc Oxide Films from Nitrate Solutions

Abstract:

The cathodic deposition of zinc oxide film on Pt from an aqueous solution containing 0.05 M Zn(NO3)2 was investigated using linear sweep voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The film formation is an electroprecipitation process due to reduction of nitrate ion on the surface of working electrode in the presence of Zn2+ ions. A morphology of ZnO with hexagonal platelets was observed. The standard electromotive force of the cell reaction was calculated for both NO3-/NO2- process and overall deposition process. Linear voltammograms and visual observations showed that polarizing the electrode at higher negative potentials than -1.1 V, the parallel reduction of zinc ion to zinc metal occurs together with reduction of nitrate ion to hydroxide ion; as a consequence, a partial amorphous state of ZnO film was recorded on SEM micrographs. Experimental impedance data and data calculated by fitting with an equivalent circuit showed that the ZnO formation involves an adsorption of complexed zinc ions on Pt electrode, before the charge transfer. Keywords: zinc oxide, zinc nitrate electrolyte, electrodeposition, linear sweep voltammetry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy

Issue: 2014, Volume 65, Issue 7

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