Issue 38, 2020

A numerical investigation of the effect of external resistance and applied potential on the distribution of periodicity and chaos in the anodic dissolution of nickel

Abstract

The oscillatory electrodissolution of nickel is one among several reactions utilized as a model-system to study the emergence of oscillations and pattern formation in electrochemical interfaces, in addition to frequently providing experimental proofs for theoretical predictions in synchronization engineering. The reaction was modeled in 1992 by Haim and co-workers [J. Phys. Chem. 1992, 96, 2676] and since then the model has been used with great success. Although some numerical studies have been done in this regard, there is apparently no detailed investigation of the effect of control parameters on the complex dynamics of nickel dissolution. Here, we provide a well-detailed and rigorous analysis of the effect of the external resistance and applied potential by simulating high-resolution phase diagrams based on the calculation of Lyapunov exponents and isospike diagrams. Our findings clearly indicate a strong dependence of the self-similar periodic islands, the so-called shrimps (i.e., periodic islands within chaotic domains in the parameter space), with the control parameters. Overall, we have observed a low density of periodic structures in the phase diagrams, being completely suppressed for large values of resistance and potential. The shrimp-like structures become gradually elongated with an increase of the control parameters to the point where only diagonally aligned periodic bands intertwined with chaotic domains are present. Interestingly, period-doubling cascades were observed not only on the shrimps but also on the periodic bands. The detailed distribution of chaos and periodicity of oscillatory electrodissolution reactions in resistance-potential phase diagrams can bring, for instance, important information to experimentalists to set a desired dynamic behavior and, therefore, to create novel nanostructured self-organized materials.

Graphical abstract: A numerical investigation of the effect of external resistance and applied potential on the distribution of periodicity and chaos in the anodic dissolution of nickel

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
10 Aug 2020
Accepted
29 Aug 2020
First published
16 Sep 2020

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020,22, 21823-21834

A numerical investigation of the effect of external resistance and applied potential on the distribution of periodicity and chaos in the anodic dissolution of nickel

C. D. S. Rodrigues, C. G. P. dos Santos, R. C. C. de Miranda, E. Parma, H. Varela and R. Nagao, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 21823 DOI: 10.1039/D0CP04238B

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