Physical Electrochemistry: Fundamentals, Techniques and Applications

In this only textbook to combine physical and applied electrochemistry, the highly experienced author describes both basic processes needed for the production of such chemicals as chlorine, aluminum, and magnesium, as well as specialty chemicals used in the pharmaceutical industry, electroplating, energy storage in batteries and energy conversion in fuel cells.

Spis treści:
INTRODUCTION
General Considerations
Polarizable and Nanopolarizable Interphases
THE POTENTIALS OF PHASES
The Driving Force
Two Cases of Special Interest
Components of the Measured Potential
The Meaning of the Standard Hydrogen Electrode Scale (SHE)
FUNDAMENTAL MEASUREMENTS IN ELECTROCHEMISTRY
Measurement of Current and Potential
Cell Geometry and the Choice of Reference Electrodes
ELECTRODE KINETICS: SOME BASIC CONCEPTS
Relating Electrode Kinetics to Chemical Kinetics
Methods of Measurement
SINGLE–STEP ELECTRODE REACTIONS
The Overpotential
Fundamental Equations of Electrode Kinetics
The Symmetry Factor in Electrode Kinetics
MULTI STEP ELECTRODE PROCESSES
Mechanistic Criteria
Some Specific Examples
THE IONIC DOUBLE–LAYER CAPACITANCE
Theories of Double–Layer Structure
ELECTROCAPILLARITY
Thermodynamics
Methods of Measurement and Results
INTERMEDIATES IN ELECTRODE REACTIONS
Adsorption Isotherms for Intermediates Formed by Charge Transfer
The Adsorption Pseudocapacitance
ELECTROSORPTION
Phenomenology
Isotherms
EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES:1
Fast Transients
Large–Amplitude Transients
EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES:2
Linear Potential Sweep and Cyclic Voltammetry
Electrochemical Impedance
Microelectrodes
The Quartz–Crystal Microbalance (QCM)
APPLICATIONS
Batteries and Fuel Cells
Corrosion
Electroplating

Nota biograficzna:
Eliezer Gileadi has been a Professor of Chemistry at Tel–Aviv University since 1966 (Emeritus since 2000). He obtained his M.Sc. at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and his Ph.D. at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is a member of the Center for Electrochemical Science and Technology of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, and Adjunct Professor at the Yeager Center of Electrochemical Science of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. He received the Olin–Palladium Award of the Electrochemical Society and the Herzberg Memorial Prize of the National Research Council of Canada. He published two graduate level textbooks in Physical and Interfacial Electrochemistry and has been teaching these subjects for the past 40 years, and published some 180 papers and book chapters and five patents.