Principles of Electrochemistry

✍ Scribed by Jiří Koryta

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 497
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The aim of this book is not to provide yet another research monograph but to give advanced undergraduates in physical chemistry an introduction to the principles of electrochemistry. Each chapter ends with a bibliographic section, to enable the reader to follow up areas of particular interest or application. Electrochemical methods themselves are not considered in detail, since these are well covered in the references. Instead, the authors stress modern electrochemical materials, electrolytes, electrodes and non-aqueous electrochemistry in general, as well as up-to-date charge transfer theory and the biological aspects of electrochemistry. This book provides an introduction to the many applications of electrochemistry, not only in chemistry, but also in materials science and biology.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Chapter 1 Equilibrium Properties of Electrolytes
1.1 Electrolytes: Elementary Concepts
1.2 Structure of Solutions
1.3 Interionic Interactions
1.4 Acids and Bases
1.5 Special Cases of Electrolytic Systems
Chapter 2 Transport Processes in Electrolyte Systems
2.1 Irreversible Processes
2.2 Common Properties of the Fluxes of Thermodynamic Quantities
2.3 Production of Entropy, the Driving Forces of Transport Phenomena
2.4 Conduction of Electricity in Electrolytes
2.5 Diffusion and Migration in Electrolyte Solutions
2.6 The Mechanism of Ion Transport in Solutions, Solids, Melts and Polymers
2.7 Transport in a Flowing Liquid
Chapter 3 Equilibria of Charge Transfer in Heterogeneous Electrochemical Systems
3.1 Structure and Electrical Properties of Interfacial Regions
3.2 Reversible Electrodes
3.3 Potentiometry
Chapter 4 The Electrical Double Layer
4.1 General Properties
4.2 Electrocapillarity
4.3 Structure of the Electrical Double Layer
4.4 Methods of the Electrical Double-layer Study
4.5 The Electrical Double Layer at the Electrolyte-Non-metallic Phase Interface
Chapter 5 Processes in Heterogeneous Electrochemical Systems
5.1 Basic Concepts and Definitions
5.2 Elementary Outline of Simple Electrode Reactions
5.3 The Theory of Electron Transfer
5.4 Transport in Electrode Processes
5.5 Methods and Materials
5.6 Chemical Reactions in Electrode Processes
5.7 Adsorption and Electrode Processes
5.8 Deposition and Oxidation of Metals
5.9 Organic Electrochemistry
5.10 Photoelectrochemistry
Chapter 6 Membrane Electrochemistry and Bioelectrochemistry
6.1 Basic Concepts and Definitions
6.2 Ion-exchanger Membranes
6.3 Ion-selective Electrodes
6.4 Biological Membranes
6.5 Examples of Biological Membrane Processes
Appendix A Recalculation Formulae for Concentrations and Activity Coefficients
Appendix В List of Symbols
Index