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Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Vol.388, No.1-2, 1-9, 1995
A Further Development of the Use of Transmission-Lines to Describe the Movement of Charge in Conducting Polymers
The description of charge transfer using transmission lines and driving potentials, the Nernst potential and a Donnan potential for each ion is shown to be perfectly compatible with the fundamental equation describing the bimolecular hopping of electrons in the polymer and the Nernst-Planck equation describing the motion of each ion. It is shown that for a small perturbation a small cross-term is negligible and that there is then complete accord between the equations used in the transmission line approach and the fundamental transport equations. Sequences of potential distance profiles for a number of cases are presented. In particular it is shown that the transmission line approache describes perfectly the development of a liquid junction when a binary electrolyte is diffusing down a concentration gradient. This complete concordance further demonstrates the power of the transmission line approach.
Keywords:THIN-LAYER CELLS;ONE DIMENSION;DIFFUSION;MODEL;TRANSPORT;MEMBRANES;FILMS;POLYPYRROLE;IMPEDANCES;CATIONS