Bubble coverage on electrode surfaces
presents challenges
for the
wide application of water electrolysis technology. Earlier experimental
studies on superaerophobic electrode surfaces indicated that surface
roughness of microscale morphologies can greatly increase the surface’s
resilience against bubble coverage at high current densities. Localized
electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (LEIS) is used in this paper
to assess this surface conductance under bubbles. The local impedance
of the bubble-shielded area and the contour around the bubble were
investigated on polished nickel and dynamic hydrogen bubble templating
(DHBT) nickel surfaces with different porosities and pore distributions.
This study demonstrated that porosity could reduce the resistivity
caused by bubble coverage, and an evenly distributed porous surface
is more resilient to bubble coverage.
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