Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and Applications, 2nd Edition

by Bard, Allen J.; Faulkner, Larry R.

• ISBN13: 9780471043720
• ISBN10: 0471043729
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-18
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This edition is fully revised to reflect the current state off the field. * Significant additions include ultramicroelectrodes, modified electrodes, and scanning probe methods. * Many chapters have been modified and improved, including electrode kinetics, voltammetric methods, and mechanisms of coupled chemical reactions.

Author Biography

Allen J. Bard is Norman Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has been a faculty member since 1958. Professor Bard is the recipient of more than twenty academic awards, most recently the Luigi Galvani Medal of the Societa Chimica Italiana, 1992; the G. M. Kosolapoff Award of the American Chemical Society, 1992; and the Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Fields of Analytical Chemistry of the Eastern Analytical Symposium, 1990. A frequent lecturer at major universities throughout the United States and Canada, and a member of numerous professional and academic organizations, Professor Bard is Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Chemical Society and served as president of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry from 1991 to 1993. He received his PhD in electroanalytical chemistry from Harvard University in 1958.

Table of Contents

Major Symbols	ix
Standard Abbreviations	xix
Introduction and Overview of Electrode Processes	1	(43)
Potentials and Thermodynamics of Cells	44	(43)
Kinetics of Electrode Reactions	87	(50)
Mass Transfer By Migration and Diffusion	137	(19)
Basic Potential Step Methods	156	(70)
Potential Sweep Methods	226	(35)
Polarography and Pulse Voltammetry	261	(44)
Controlled-Current Techniques	305	(26)
Methods Involving Forced Convection--Hydrodynamic Methods	331	(37)
Techniques Based On Concepts of Impedance	368	(49)
Bulk Electrolysis Methods	417	(54)
Electrode Reactions With Coupled Homogeneous Chemical Reactions	471	(63)
Double-Layer Structure and Adsorption	534	(46)
Electroactive Layers and Modified Electrodes	580	(52)
Electrochemical Instrumentation	632	(27)
Scanning Probe Techniques	659	(21)
Spectroelectrochemistry and Other Coupled Characterization Methods	680	(56)
Photoelectrochemistry and Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence	736	(78)
APPENDICES
A Mathematical Methods	769	(16)
B Digital Simulations of Electrochemical Problems	785	(23)
C Reference Tables	808	(6)
Index	814