ON THE MATHEMATICAL UNIFICATION OF A CLASS OF ELECTROCHEMICAL OSCILLATORS AND THEIR DESIGN PROCEDURES

Three strategies are described for designing electrochemical oscillato rs involving electrochemical reactions at inert electrodes. The strate gies are based on coupling a negative faradaic impedance with mass tra nsport, and it is argued that the dynamic behaviour of all of these sy stems is expected to be qualitatively similar. The three ''recipes'' a re illustrated by experiments of simple reduction reactions at the han ging mercury drop electrode.