Abstract
A family of self-affine surfaces is used to model the interface between a rough blocking electrode and an electrolyte. It is shown that the surface impedance scales as (i omega )-p where the exponent p varies from 0 to 1. An expression for p is found in terms of the surface geometry. It is shown that p depends on both the Holder exponent, H, and the degree of sparseness of the structure. For surfaces whose structure is everywhere dense, or very sparse, this anomalous power-law behaviour is no longer seen.