List of Main Symbols |
Fundamentals of Electrochemistry / I: |
Introduction / 1: |
A typical system / 1.1: |
Preliminaries / 2: |
Inner, outer, and surface potentials / 2.1: |
The electrochemical potential / 2.2: |
Absolute electrode potential / 2.3: |
Three-electrode configuration / 2.4: |
The metal-solution interface / 3: |
Ideally polarizable electrodes / 3.1: |
The Gouy-Chapman theory / 3.2: |
The Helmholtz capacity / 3.3: |
The potential of zero charge / 3.4: |
Surface tension and the potential of zero charge / 3.5: |
Adsorption on metal electrodes / 4: |
Adsorption phenomena / 4.1: |
Adsorption isotherms / 4.2: |
The dipole moment of an adsorbed ion / 4.3: |
The structure of single crystal surfaces / 4.4: |
The adsorption of iodide on Pt(111) / 4.5: |
Underpotential deposition / 4.6: |
Adsorption of organic molecules / 4.7: |
Phenomenological treatment of electron-transfer reactions / 5: |
Outer-sphere electron-transfer / 5.1: |
The Butler-Volmer equation / 5.2: |
Double-layer corrections / 5.3: |
A note on inner-sphere reactions / 5.4: |
Theoretical considerations of electron-transfer reactions / 6: |
Qualitative aspects / 6.1: |
A simple model for electron-transfer reactions / 6.2: |
Electronic structure of the electrode / 6.3: |
Gerischer's formulation / 6.4: |
The energy of reorganization / 6.5: |
The semiconductor-electrolyte interface / 7: |
Electronic structure of semiconductors / 7.1: |
Potential profile and band bending / 7.2: |
Electron-transfer reactions / 7.3: |
Photoinduced electron-transfer / 7.4: |
Photoexcitation of the electrode / 7.4.1: |
Photoexcitation of a redox species / 7.4.2: |
Dissolution of semiconductors / 7.5: |
Selected experimental results for electron-transfer reactions / 8: |
Validity of the Butler-Volmer equation / 8.1: |
Curvature of Tafel plots / 8.2: |
Adiabatic electron-transfer reactions / 8.3: |
Electrochemical properties of SnO[subscript 2] / 8.4: |
Photocurrents on WO[subscript 3] electrodes / 8.5: |
Proton- and ion-transfer reactions / 9: |
Dependence on the electrode potential / 9.1: |
Rate-determining step / 9.2: |
The hydrogen evolution reaction / 9.3: |
Oxygen reduction / 9.4: |
Chlorine evolution / 9.5: |
Reaction rate and adsorption energy / 9.6: |
Comparison of ion- and electron-transfer reactions / 9.7: |
Metal deposition and dissolution / 10: |
Morphological aspects / 10.1: |
Surface diffusion / 10.2: |
Nucleation / 10.3: |
Growth of two-dimensional films / 10.4: |
Deposition on uniformly flat surfaces / 10.5: |
Metal dissolution and passivation / 10.6: |
Complex reactions / 11: |
Consecutive charge-transfer reactions / 11.1: |
Electrochemical reaction order / 11.2: |
Deposition of silver in the presence of cyanide / 11.3: |
Mixed potentials and corrosion / 11.4: |
Liquid-liquid interfaces / 12: |
The interface between two immiscible solutions / 12.1: |
Partitioning of ions / 12.2: |
Energies of transfer of single ions / 12.3: |
Double-layer properties / 12.4: |
Ion-transfer reactions / 12.5: |
A model for liquid-liquid interfaces / 12.7: |
Selected Experimental Methods / II: |
Transient techniques / 13: |
Overview / 13.1: |
Principles of transient techniques / 13.2: |
Potential step / 13.3: |
Current step / 13.4: |
Cyclic voltammetry / 13.5: |
Impedance spectroscopy / 13.6: |
Microelectrodes / 13.7: |
Convection techniques / 14: |
Rotating disc electrode / 14.1: |
Turbulent pipe flow / 14.2: |
Nontraditional techniques / 15: |
The scanning tunneling microscope / 15.1: |
Surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy / 15.2: |
Infrared spectroscopy / 15.3: |
Electroreflectance spectroscopy / 15.4: |
Second harmonic generation / 15.5: |
The quartz crystal microbalance / 15.6: |
A Few Topics in Theoretical Electrochemistry / III: |
Thermodynamics of ideal polarizable interfaces / 16: |
The double layer in the absence of specific adsorption / 17: |
The Gouy-Chapman-Stern model / 17.1: |
The contribution of the metal / 17.2: |
The jellium model / 17.3: |
An ensemble of hard spheres / 17.4: |
Computer simulations / 17.5: |
Charge distribution in adsorbates / 18: |
Electrosorption valence / 18.1: |
Relation to the dipole moment / 18.2: |
A simple model for an adsorbate / 18.3: |
Quantum theory of electron-transfer reactions / 19: |
Born-Oppenheimer approximation / 19.1: |
Harmonic approximation / 19.2: |
Application to electron transfer / 19.3: |
First-order perturbation theory / 19.4: |
Thermal averaging / 19.5: |
Summary and interpretation / 19.6: |
Solutions to the problems |
Appendix |
The Gouy-Chapman capacity / A.1: |
The Mott-Schottky capacity / A.2: |
Atomic units / A.3: |
Index |
List of Main Symbols |
Fundamentals of Electrochemistry / I: |
Introduction / 1: |