Fundamentals of Electrochemistry

Contributors.
Preface to the Second Edition.

Preface to the First Edition.

List of Photographs.

Abbreviations.

Symbols.

PART I: BASIC CONCEPTS.

1. Electric Currents in Ionic Conductors.

1.1 Various Types of Conductors.

1.2 Ions in Electrolyte Solutions.

1.3 Conductivity of Electrolyte Solutions.

1.4 Circuits Involving Ionic Conductors. Electrodes.

1.5 Passage of Current Through Electrodes. Electrode Reactions.

1.6 Classification of Electrodes and Electrode Reactions.

1.7 Faraday's Laws.

1.8 Equations for Mass Balance.

1.9 Sign Convention for Currents and Fluxes.

2. Electrode Potentials.

2.1 Interfacial Potential Differences (Galvani Potentials).

2.2 Exchange Currents.

2.3 Open-Circuit Voltages.

2.4 Electrode Potentials.

2.5 Cell Voltage at Nonzero Current.

3. Thermodynamics of Electrochemical Systems.

3.1 Conventional and Undefined Parameters.

3.2 Thermodynamic Functions in Electrochemistry.

3.3 Thermodynamic Activity.

3.4 Equations for the EMF of Galvanic Cells.

3.5 Concentration Dependence of Electrode Potentials.

3.6 Special Thermodynamic Features of Electrode Potentials.

4. Mass Transfer in Electrolytes.

4.1 Basic Laws of Ionic Diffusion in Solutions.

4.2 Limiting Diffusion Currents in Electrolytes.

4.3 Ionic Transport by Migration and Diffusion.

4.4 Convective Transport.

5. Phase Boundaries (Interfaces) Between Miscible Electrolytes.

5.1 Types of Interfaces Between Electrolytes.

5.2 Potentials Between Similar Electrolytes (Diffusion Potentials).

5.3 Distribution of the Ions Between Dissimilar but Miscible Electrolytes.

5.4 Distribution of Ions in Cells with Membrane.

5.5 Galvanic Cells with Transference.

6. Polarization of Electrodes.

6.1 Basic Concepts.

6.2 Laws of Activation Polarization.

6.3 Diffusional Concentration Polarization.

6.4 Superposition of Concentration and Activation Polarization.

7. Aqueous Electrolyte

VLADIMIR S. BAGOTSKY , PHD, is a retired professor from the Frumkin Institute of Electrochemistry at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Previously, he headed a department at the Moscow Power Sources Institute, where he supervised the development of new batteries for most Russian ICBMs, sputniks, and spacecrafts. He has extensive experience with both theoretical and applied electrochemistry. He has authored 400 scientific papers and four monographs, including, in 1952 (together with Professor A. N. Frumkin et al.), the first monograph on electrochemical kinetics, titled Kinetics of Electrode Processes, and served on the editorial boards of Journal of Power Sources and Elektrokhimiya.