Tracking Electrons - Colourful Insights into the Processes of Bipolar Electrochemistry with Polypyrrole

Dominik Quarthal¹ and Marco Oetken^1,

¹Department of Chemistry, Physics, Technology and their teaching methodologies, University of Education Freiburg, Kunzenweg 21, 79117 Freiburg, Germany,

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Dominik Quarthal and Marco Oetken. Tracking Electrons - Colourful Insights into the Processes of Bipolar Electrochemistry with Polypyrrole. World Journal of Chemical Education. 2023; 11(3):114-120. doi: 10.12691/WJCE-11-3-15

Abstract

The following article is intended to highlight the importance and usefulness of bipolar electrochemistry for science and for school and university teaching. In addition, a suitable explanation of the phenomena that take place on the basis of bipolar electrochemistry will be presented and visualised and confirmed by means of the different colours of the oxidation states of polypyrrole.

Keywords

bipolar electrochemistry, polymers,polypyrrole, water electrolysis

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