Interfacial Electrochemistry

✍ Scribed by Wolfgang Schmickler, Elizabeth Santos (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 287
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Electrochemistry is an old branch of physical chemistry. Due to the development of surface sensitive techniques, and a technological interest in fuel cells and batteries, it has recently undergone a rapid development. This textbook treats the field from a modern, atomistic point of view while integrating the older, macroscopic concepts. The increasing role of theory is reflected in the presentation of the basic ideas in a way that should appeal to experimentalists and theorists alike. Special care is taken to make the subject comprehensible to scientists from neighboring disciplines, especially from surface science. The book is suitable for an advanced course at the master or Ph.D. level, but should also be useful for practicing electrochemists, as well as to any scientist who wants to understand modern electrochemistry.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Metal and semiconductor electrodes....Pages 9-18
Electrolyte solutions....Pages 19-27
A few basic concepts....Pages 29-37
The metal-solution interface....Pages 39-50
Adsorption on metal electrodes: principles....Pages 51-65
Adsorption on metal electrodes: examples....Pages 67-76
Thermodynamics of ideal polarizable interfaces....Pages 77-89
Phenomenological treatment of electron-transfer reactions....Pages 91-98
Theoretical considerations of electron-transfer reactions....Pages 99-115
The semiconductor-electrolyte interface....Pages 117-131
Selected experimental results for electron-transfer reactions....Pages 133-143
Inner sphere and ion-transfer reactions....Pages 145-162
Hydrogen reaction and electrocatalysis....Pages 163-175
Metal deposition and dissolution....Pages 177-193
Electrochemical surface processes....Pages 195-206
Complex reactions....Pages 207-215
Liquid−liquid interfaces....Pages 217-234
Experimental techniques for electrode kinetics – non-stationary methods....Pages 235-257
Convection techniques....Pages 259-267
Back Matter....Pages 269-272

✦ Subjects

Electrochemistry; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films; Energy Storage