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Download or read book Theoretical Study of Reactions at the Electrode-electrolyte Interface. Progress Report, February 1, 1993--March 31, 1994 written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electron transfer rates are predicted by numerical methods, in collaboration with ANL. Emphasis is on electron transfer involving ions known to be important in enhancing stress corrosion cracking in light water reactors and on electron transfer at oxide surfaces. We have completed studies of the ferrous-ferric electron transfer rate in which effects of electric field, entropic effects in the free energy and quantum effects are included for the first time in the calculation of the rate of an electrochemical (heterogeneous) reaction rate. These new results confirm assumptions made in earlier calculations. The ferric ion has been modelled in a dissociable polarizable model showing the six-fold coordination of this ion in aqueous solution is stabilized by the three body interactions arising from the polarizability of water. In our studies of oxides, we have completed a Hartree self consistent calculation of the electronic structure of fayalite. The calculation utilizes a new method which takes phenomenological account of local electron correlations which have plagued electronic structure calculations of oxides for a long time. No electronic structure calculation of fayalite has been previously reported to our knowledge. Similar methods have been used to calculate the electronic structure of a vacancy in rutile (TiO2). Results show that the screening donor electrons are anisotropically distributed around the vacancy.