The use of solid-oxide-membrane technology for electrometallurgy

A potentiodynamic sweep for the SOM cell with liquid metal anode showed a linear relationship between current and potential right from the start, indicating that a certain fraction of the current is electronic. Although the experiment produced a small amount of titanium, the electronic fraction of the total current increased as the electrolysis proceeded, as titanium metal at the cathode and its subvalent states in the flux increased the electronic conductivity.