摘要
A study has been made of the cathodic polarization curves during the pulse plating of chromium from an aqueous chromic acid bath containing 250 g/L CrO3 and 2. 5 g/L H2SO4 at 22℃ over the range of pulse periods from 1 ms to 50 ms. The duty cycle was kept at 50%. The methods of potentiostatic pulse potential control and galvanostatic pulse current control were used to determine the polarization curves of a platinum and a copper rotating disk electrode in the chromium plating solution. The results indicated that pulse potential and pulse current inhibited the formation of a cathode film and shifted the potential of the hydrogen evolution reaction toward the positive direction by about 500 mV. The potential and current pulses behaved as a depolarter of H+ reduction reaction. The present results agreed with a previous experimental observation that the coulombic efficiency of the chromium deposition reaction was reduced and the coulombic efficiency of the hydorgen evolution reaction was increased in pulse plating of chromium.
A study has been made of the cathodic polarization curves during the pulse plating of chromium from an aqueous chromic acid bath containing 250 g/L CrO3 and 2. 5 g/L H2SO4 at 22℃ over the range of pulse periods from 1 ms to 50 ms. The duty cycle was kept at 50%. The methods of potentiostatic pulse potential control and galvanostatic pulse current control were used to determine the polarization curves of a platinum and a copper rotating disk electrode in the chromium plating solution. The results indicated that pulse potential and pulse current inhibited the formation of a cathode film and shifted the potential of the hydrogen evolution reaction toward the positive direction by about 500 mV. The potential and current pulses behaved as a depolarter of H+ reduction reaction. The present results agreed with a previous experimental observation that the coulombic efficiency of the chromium deposition reaction was reduced and the coulombic efficiency of the hydorgen evolution reaction was increased in pulse plating of chromium.
