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Past exam of the MPhil in micro- and nanotechnology enterprise course of the University of Cambridge 2019 Paper 1 Section B 11 iv Solution by
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At unchanged intrinsic catalyst kinetics, increasing the electrochemically accessible true area by multiplies exchange current per geometric area by . Equivalently, the local current density at a fixed total geometric current falls by . Each Tafel equation activation loss decreases by :Thus and , an increase of , or about . Power does not increase a hundredfold, because the voltage improvement is logarithmic and the specified geometric current is unchanged. This assumes both electrodes gain accessible active area, the original exchange currents use the original area basis, and the porous structure does not introduce additional transport or Ohmic losses.
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