Does electricity have an effect in reactivity?

[sciman]

hello

I wonder if electrifying a metal will increase its reactivity with other substances or not

the mechanism I imagine it to be the increased movement of valence electrons, perhaps an energy excitation of them, so that they react more with substrate

is this true?

thanks

 

[Doug Huffman]

See electrolysis.

 

[sciman]

mmm, true, but in electrolysis the metal doesn't act like catalyst
it doesn't react with the substrate, it just poses an electrical field, under which the substrate separates in its parts

 

[Doug Huffman]

Electroplating, electroforming, electrodeposition

 

[sciman]

Doug, I am talking about catalytic reaction!

 

[Vagn]

Doug, I am talking about catalytic reaction!

Electrocatalysis?

 

[sciman]

Electrocatalysis?

mmm interesting! thanks! will study it and come back to you