Skip to content

Cyclic Voltammograms

The cyclic voltammograms (CVs1) are categorized based on the type of system, i.e., aquoues or non-aqueous, as well as descriptors (tags) used to some extent commonly by the community or introduced here for the purpose of categorizing the systems. An entry can have several tags.

To create, browse and compare specific datasets based on other search criteria, use the API.

Systems

  • Aqueous: Aqueous systems use water as a solvent, which is mixed with ions from an acid, a base, a salt, or a combination of such chemicals. Other chemicals or gases can be added.
  • Non aqueous: The ion conducting electrolyte can be a solid or a liquid. In the case of a liquid, the solvent is either conductive itself, as in Ionic Liquids, or it consists of a non-conductive solvent mixed with a salt.

Tags

  • BCV: We consider a “base cyclic voltammogram” as a CV that shows no electrocatalysis except possibly the decomposition of the electrolyte.
  • SHA: Specific Halide Adsorption, studied in electrolytes containing at least one halide component.
  • COOR: CO Oxidation Reaction, usually studied in a CO saturated electrolyte.
  • FAOR: Formic Acid Oxidation Reaction, usually studied in a formic acid containing electrolyte.
  • HER: Hydrogen Evolution Reaction.

  1. Note that in the literature the abbreviation CV is sometimes used for the technique cyclic voltammetry. ↩