期刊
ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
卷 56, 期 2, 页码 867-877出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2010.08.076
关键词
Tantalum; Ionic liquids; Electrochemistry; Spectroscopy
资金
- Austrian Government via FFG (Austrian Research Foundation Agency)
- Government of Lower Austria
FTIR spectroscopy was used to identify the oxochloride species of tantalum(V) in ionic liquids and to confirm the correlations between their presence in electrolytes and the changes in the route of electrochemical reduction of tantalum(V). Electrochemical behaviour of the mixtures (x)1-butyl-1-methyl-pyrrolidinium chloride-(1 - x)TaCl5 at x=0.80. 0.65, and 0.40 was investigated over the temperature range 90-160 degrees C with respect to the electrochemical deposition of tantalum and was discussed in terms of spectroscopic data. The mechanism of electrochemical reduction of tantalum(V) in the basic and acidic electrolytes depends strongly on the structure and composition of the electro active species of tantalum(V) defined by the molar composition of ionic liquids and on the competition between tantalum(V) chloride and oxochloride species. In the basic mixture at x=0.80, with octahedral [TaCl6](-) ions as the electrochemically active species only the first reduction step Ta5+ -> Ta4+ at -0.31 V was observed. The competitive reduction of tantalum(V) oxochloride species occurs at more anodic potential (-0.01 V) than the reduction of the chloride complexes and can restrict the further reduction of tantalum(IV). In the basic ionic liquid at x=0.65, the cyclic voltammograms exhibit reduction peaks at -0.31 V and -0.51 V attributed to the diffusion controlled process as [TaCl6](-) + e(-) -> [TaCl6](2-) and [TaCl6](2-) + e(-) -> [TaCl6](3-). The further irreversible reduction of tantalum(III) to metallic state may occur at -2.1 V. In the acidic ionic liquids, at x = 0.40 the electrochemical reduction of two species occurs,TaCl6- and Ta2Cl11- and it is limited by two electron transfer for both of them at -0.3 V and -1.5 V. respectively. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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