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Fundamentals of Electrochemistry, 2nd ed.

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A significantly revised and improved edition, this ediition provides the essential information required to understand and apply electrochemical processes. It offers a basic outline of the essential topics of theoretical and applied electrochemistry and serves as a key to recent and advanced developments in the field. This new edition features a new focus on experimental techniques, including a comprehensive chapter on physical methods for the investigation of electrode surfaces. New chapters deal with recent trends in electrochemistry, including nanoelectrochemistry, solid-state electrochemistry, conducting polymers, electrocatalysis, computer simulation in electrochemistry, and electrochemistry and the environment. Chapters included on batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitors, and other electrochemical devices and phenomena.

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ISBN-10

0-47170058-4

ISBN-13

978-0-47170058-6

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V. Bagotsky, ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2006, 722 pp., hard cover

Table of Contents

PART I: BASIC CONCEPTS.
1. Electric Currents in Ionic Conductors.
2. Electrode Potentials.
3. Thermodynamics of Electrochemical Systems.
4. Mass Transfer in Electrolytes.
5. Phase Boundaries (Interfaces) Between Miscible Electrolytes.
6. Polarization of Electrodes.
7. Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions.
8. Nonaqueous Electrolytes.
9. Electron Work Functions and Volta Potentials. 10. Structure and Properties of Surface Layers.
11. Transient Processes.
12. Electrochemical research Techniques.
PART II:KINETICS OF ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTIONS.
13. Multistep Electrode Reactions.
14. Some Aspects of Electrochemical Kinetics.
15. Reactions at Nonconsumable Electrodes.
16. Reactions Involving Metals.
PART III: APPLIED ASPECTS OF ELECTROCHEMISTRY.
17. Industrial Electrolytic Processes.
18. Electrochemical Reactors.
19. Batteries (Electrochemical Power Sources.
20. Fuel Cells.
21. Some Electrochemical Methods of Analysis.
22. Corrosion of Metals.
23. Electrochemical Methods of Analysis.
24. Electrochemistry and the Environment.
PART IV: SELECTED TOPICS IN ELECTROCHEMISTRY.
25. Solid-State Electrochemistry.
26. Conductive Polymers.
27. Physical Methods for Investigation of Electrode Surfaces.
28. Electrocatalysis.
29. Photoelectrochemistry.
30. Bioelectrochemistry.
31. Electrokinetic Processes.
32. Interfaces Between Two Immiscible Electrolyte Solutions.
33. Various Electrochemical Phenomena.
34. Main Concepts of Elementary Reaction Act Theory.
35. Computer Simulation in Electrochemistry.
36. Nanoelectrochemistry.
37. Development of Electrochemistry.
Appendix A: Derivation of the Main Equation of Debye-Huckel Theory.
Appendix B: Derivation of the main Equation of Gouy-Chapman Theory.
General Bibliography.

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