Negative resistance in electrochemical reactions: effects and consequences
MarĂ­a Consuelo Barrantes a, Alex Rambla a, Elena MĂĄs − MarzĂĄ a, Francisco Fabregat − Santiago a
a Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM), Universitat Jaume I, 12006 CastellĂł, Spain.
Proceedings of MATSUS Spring 2026 Conference (MATSUSSpring26)
Barcelona, Spain, 2026 March 23rd - 27th
Organizers: Demetra Achilleos, Quinten Akkerman, Josep Albero Sancho, Virgil Andrei, Nikolas Antonatos, Milena Arciniegas, Se-Woong Baek, Simon Boehme, Ankita Bora, Francesca Borghi, Annalisa Bruno, Ignasi BurguĂ©s, Stefania Cacovich, Mariano Campoy Quiles, Chia-Chin Chen, Zhuoying Chen, Francesco Chiabrera, NoemĂ­ Contreras-Pereda, Miryam Criado-Gonzalez, Kunal Datta, Gustavo de Miguel, Emmanuelle Deleporte, Nicola Dengo, Krishanu Dey, Giorgio Divitini, Johanna Eichhorn, Vida Engmann, Carlos Escudero, MarĂ­a Escudero-Escribano, Karen Forberich, Pol Forn-DĂ­az, Teresa Gatti, Sixto Gimenez Julia, Paolo Giusto, Andres Fabian Gualdron Reyes, Enrique H. Balaguera, Florian Hausen, Zeger Hens, Yue Hu, Eline Hutter, Ivan Infante, Emilio J. Juarez-Perez, Pascal Kaienburg, Safakath Karuthedath , Jafar Khan, Jiwan Kim, Maksym Kovalenko, Gints Kucinskis, Luis Lanzetta, ZHANZHAO LI, Tom Macdonald, Lorenzo Malavasi, Juan P. MartĂ­nez Pastor, Sofia Masi, Diego Mateo Mateo, Shoichi Matsuda, Micaela Matta, Svetlana Menkin, IvĂĄn Mora-SerĂł, Silvia Motti, Christian MĂŒller, Nakita Noel, Soong Ju Oh, Filipa M. Oliveira, Pablo P. Boix, Jay Patel, Fabian Paulus, Sergio Pinilla, Isabella Poli, Marcello Righetto, Teresa S. Ripolles, Carmelita RodĂ , Maria Saladina, Oleksandr Savatieiev, Alberto Scaccabarozzi, Nadine Schrenker, Suvodeep Sen, Ji-Youn Seo, Taeseup Song, Ajay Ram Srimath Kandada, Ifan Stephens, Verena Streibel, Albert TarancĂłn, Magda Titirici, Stefano Toso, Gabriele Tullii, Juan JesĂșs Velasco VĂ©lez, Yongjie Wang, Jingwen Weng, Robin White, Jiyong Woo, Junzhi Ye, Matteo Zaffalon, Baowei Zhang, Leiting Zhang and Juliette Zito
Poster, MarĂ­a Consuelo Barrantes, 934
Publication date: 15th December 2025

The oxidation of organic molecules by electrochemical processes is presented as an
option for oxygen evolution in electrochemical processes, such as hydrogen production
and đ¶đ‘‚2 reduction.
The study of negative resistance in electrochemical reactions from an impedance
spectroscopy point of view is not well known. Therefore, electrical impedance
characterization is carried out using a nickel foil as an electrocatalyst.
The impedance was evaluated in the redox peak region of cyclic voltammetry, using
different electrolytes with and without organic molecules, in an alkaline medium. The
J- V curve shows that adding the organic molecule causes a change in slope, which results
in negative resistance in the Nyquist plot.
At the initials at which the measurement is made, the presence of inductance is also
observed in the Nyquist plot, coinciding in some cases with the potential at which
resistance becomes negative. Therefore, this gives rise to the fact that, at this potential,
it is possible related to the adsorption of intermediate species at the electrode-
electrolyte interface.

We thank financial support by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación y Universidades of Spain (MICIU) project ADD PID2023- 1491580B-C41.

[3] Lasia, A. Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy and its Applications; Springer,
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