The electrochemical formation and characteristics of passive films on niobium surfaces in aqueous H2SO4 solutions were studied using open circuit potential and cyclic voltammetry. In the potential region between -1.0 and 1.2 V(NHE), the cyclic voltammetry data showed that the active/passive transition involves slow metal dissolution followed by the formation of semiconducting passive oxide films. The possible electrochemical reactions and the change of the oxidation steps of some niobium oxides occurring in the passive film during the polarization are proposed. A strong influence of the natural air-formed oxide film on the chemical composition of the passive film was shown. This influence makes chemical structure of thin passive films more complicated than that of thick anodic films. It is shown that the passive films consists of more or less stable oxides, such as NbO, NbO2 and Nb2O5. The Raman spectra revealed that the thin passive films were amorphous, while the films formed at higher voltages consist, primarily, of well-crystallized Nb2O5.
The initiation of acrylamide polymerisation in aqueous media with a redox system of the type F S + /organic complex of Fe(III)/Na&O, was studied. Several carboxylated amines containing the iminodiacetate group as a basic structural unit were used as complex forming reagents. A direct relation between complex stability and initiation efficiency was found. The polymerisation kinetics were studied with the most effective initiating system. Several kinetic parameters were determined and an essential relationship between polymerisation behaviour, polymer characteristics and component ratio of the initiation and polymerisation system was found. An attempt was made to explain these results.
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