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Point relaxations for the pressure–composition isotherms were analyzed as a solid-state diffusion problem of hydrogen solutes from the gas phase provided in a limited amount by a pulse-like supply. For the large differential hydrogen storage, typical in the PCI plateau region, represented by small effective volume ratio λ parameter in the diffusion equation, the relaxation occurs much faster than in the galvanostatic or potentiostatic relaxations for the same chemical diffusivity values. The analysis was successfully applied to Mg/MgH2 system and the apparent chemical diffusivity and the hydrogen self-diffusivity were evaluated as a function of the state of hydrogen storage, in an analogous manner to the well-known electrochemical titration techniques. The increase in the apparent chemical diffusivity and hydrogen self-diffusivity in the plateau region with the increasing state of storage can be consistently explained by the lower hydrogen self-diffusivity in MgH2 than in Mg solid solution. The hydrogen self-diffusivity variation in the single phase MgH2 region suggests the vacancy mechanism. The method is named as pneumatochemical intermittent titration technique (PnITT).

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Electrical modeling of the chemical gas sensors was successfully applied to TiO2 nanofiber gas sensors by developing an equivalent circuit model where the junction capacitance as well as the resistance can be separated from the comparable stray capacitance. The Schottky junction impedance exhibited a characteristic skewed arc described by a Cole-Davidson function, and the variation of the fit and derived parameters with temperature, bias, and NO2 gas concentration indicated definitely a physicochemical sensing mechanism based on the Pt|TiO2 Schottky junctions against the conventional supposition of the enhanced sensitivity in nanostructured gas sensors with high grain boundary/surface area. Analysis on a model Pt|TiO2|Pt structure also confirmed the characteristic impedance response of TiO2 nanofiber sensors.