Both galvanostatic and potentiostatic methods have been applied for the measurement of the electrochemical polarization effects at various nickel anodes in nickel sulfate, nickel chloride, nickel sulfamate and also Watts type nickel solutions in order to determine the anodic dissolution reactions involved.
The nickel plates tested are as follows:
1) Electrolytic nickel (SP) 2) Carbonized nickel
(CP) 3) Neo-carbonized nickel (NP) 4) Depolarized nickel (DP)
In chloride-free nickel sulfate and nickel sulfamate solutions, all the nickel anodes studied except DP nickel tend to become passive at low current densities.
The addition of chloride ions to the nickel sulfamate bath had the remarkable effects of raising the minimum current density required to passivate nickel anodes such as SP, NP and CP nickels.
In nickel chloride and also Watts type nickel solutions, the smooth current-voltage curves were obtained for all nickel anodes studied showing any passivation effect in these solutions.
The potentiostatic measurements revealed that the various types of anode potential-current density curves were observed for the different kinds of anode examined. The DP nickel plate was found to have the smaller passive regions corresponding to the high reactivity of the nickel surface in sulfate and sulfamate solutions.
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