Coupling between electroosmotically driven flow and bipolar faradaic depolarization processes in electron-conducting microchannels

A mathematical model which accounts for the effects of the faradaic depolarization processes on the lateral electric field in solution, the interfacial zeta-potential and the electroosmotic flow within an electron-conducting cylindrical microchannel is proposed for the first time within the framework of kinetically controlled electron transfer reactions. The promising possibility of manipulating electroosmotic flows in metallic channels by electrochemical means is shown for the first time.