Electrochemistry: A Reformulation of the Basic Principles

✍ Scribed by Hermann Gerhard Hertz (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 267
• Series: Lecture Notes in Chemistry 17
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book a presentation of a phenomenological theory of elec­ trochemistry is given. More precisely, it should be stated that only one part of the whole field of electrochemistry is developed. It is the purpose of this treatment to describe the interconnection between the electric current in a composite thermodynamic system and the rate of production of a certain substance on the one side, the rate of deple­ tion of another substance on the other side, and the work per unit time which has to be delivered to or is supplied by the system. The last part of this programme leads to the computation of the electric potential or the electromotive force of a typical arrangement called a galvanic cell. It will only be the electric current~ which is considered, not the change of the electric current per unit time, i.e. d~/P{t • The vari­ ation of Jz with time would have to be the subject of the second part of this new treatment of electrochemistry.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Description of the multicomponent electrolyte solution in the equilibrium state....Pages 1-20
The multicomponent electrolyte solution in the non-equilibrium situation....Pages 21-38
The diffusion system in the presence of an electric current....Pages 39-63
The moving boundary method....Pages 64-75
The diffusion process at the electrodes in the presence of an electric current....Pages 76-105
Energy changes in electrochemical systems....Pages 106-125
A comparison of our electrolyte diffusion treatment with the conventional one....Pages 126-137
The electromotive force of a galvanic cell....Pages 138-182
Galvanic cells containing only one type of anion (or correspondingly, one type of cation)....Pages 183-195
The galvanic cell with a redox electrode....Pages 196-211
The galvanic cell with an oxygen electrode....Pages 212-219
The salt bridge....Pages 220-244
Membrane potentials....Pages 245-253
Back Matter....Pages 254-257

✦ Subjects

Chemistry/Food Science, general;Engineering, general