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The result is required reading for those majoring in chemistry, as well as those studying chemical engineering, materials science and physics. List of Symbols and Units. 1 Foundations, Definitions and Concepts. 1.1 Ions, Electrolytes and the Quantisation of Electrical Charge.

1.2 Transition from Electronic to Ionic Conductivity in an Electrochemical Cell. 1.3 Electrolysis Cells and Galvanic Cells: The Decomposition Potential and the Concept of EMF. 1.4 Faraday's Laws.

1.5 Systems of Units. 2 Electrical Conductivity and Interionic Interactions. 2.1 Fundamentals. 2.2 Empirical Laws of Electrolyte Conductivity.

2.3 Ionic Mobility and Hittorf Transport. 2.4 The Theory of Electrolyte Conductivity: The Debye-Hu.ckel-Onsager Theory of Dilute Electrolytes. 2.5 The Concept of Activity from the Electrochemical Viewpoint. 2.6 The Properties of Weak Electrolytes. 2.7 The Concept of pH and the Idea of Buffer Solutions.

2.8 Non-aqueous Solutions. 2.9 Simple Applications of Conductivity Measurements. 3 Electrode Potentials and Double-Layer Structure at Phase Boundaries. 3.1 Electrode Potentials and their Dependence on Concentration, Gas Pressure and Temperature. 3.2 Liquid-junction Potentials. 3.3 Membrane Potentials. 3.4 The Electrolyte Double-Layer and Electrokinetic Effects.

3.5 Potential and Phase Boundary Behaviour at Semiconductor Electrodes. 3.6 Simple Applications of Potential Difference Measurements. 4 Electrical Potentials and Electrical Current.

4.1 Cell Voltage and Electrode Potential during Current Flow: an Overview. 4.2 The Electron-transfer Region of the Current-Potential Curve. 4.3 The Concentration Overpotential - The Effect of Transport of Material on the Current-Voltage Curve.

4.4 The Effect of Simultaneous Chemical Processes on the Current Voltage Curve. 4.5 Adsorption Processes. 4.6 Electrocrystallisation - Metal Deposition and Dissolution. 4.7 Mixed Electrodes and Corrosion. 4.8 Current Flows on Semiconductor Electrodes. 4.9 Bioelectrochemistry.

5 Methods for the Study of the Electrode/Electrolyte Interface. 5.1 The Measurement of Stationary Current-Potential Curves. 5.2 Quasi-Stationary Methods. 5.3 Electrochemical Methods for the Study of Electrode Films. 5.4 Spectroelectrochemical and other Non-classical Methods.

5.5 Preparation of Nanostructures, Combination of STM and UHV-Transfer. 5.6 Optical Methods. 6 Electrocatalysis and Reaction Mechanisms. 6.1 On Electrocatalysis. 6.2 The Hydrogen Electrode.

6.3 The Oxygen Electrode. 6.4 Methanol Oxidation. 6.5 Carbon Monoxide Oxidation at Platinum Surfaces.

6.6 Conversion of Chemical Energy of Ethanol into Electricity. 6.7 Reaction Mechanisms in Electro-organic Chemistry.

6.8 Oscillations in Electrochemical Systems. 7 Solid and Molten-salt Ionic Conductors as Electrolytes.

7.1 Ionically Conducting Solids. 7.2 Solid Polymer Electrolytes (SPE's). 7.3 Ionically-conducting Melts. Omnipage professional x mac torrent. 8 Industrial Electrochemical Processes. Volodimir vinnichenko komedya z kostem plan.