Physical Electrochemistry : Fundamentals, Techniques and Applications

by Gileadi, Eliezer

• ISBN13: 9783527319701
• ISBN10: 3527319700
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-21
• Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Summary

This textbook covers the field of physical electrochemistry by introducing the reader to its central topics, including electrode kinetics and reactions, electrocapillarity, electrosorption, electrocatalysis, as well as the most important electrochemical methods. The book is a must-have for anyone wanting to learn more about the methods and their applications in related fields, such as corrosion, materials science, electroplating, nanotechnology and bioelectrochemistry.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Potentials Of Phases

Fundamental Measurements In Electrochemistry

Electrode Kinetics: Some Basic Concepts

Single-Step Electrode Reactions

Multi-Step Electrode Reactions

Some Specific Examples

The Ionic Double-Layer Capacitance Cdl

Electrocapillarity

Nanotechnology And Electrocatalysis

Intermediates In Electrode Reactions

Underpotential Deposition And Single-Crystal Electrochemistry

Electrosorption

Experimental Techniques:

Experimental Techniques (2)

Experimental Techniques (3)

The Electrochemical Quartz-Crystal Microbalance

Corrosion

Electroplating

Energy Conversion And Storage

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