Electrochemical Science and Technology (ePub)

Electrochemistry is a discipline of wide scientific and
technological interest. Scientifically, it explores the electrical
properties of materials and especially the interfaces between
different kinds of matter. Technologically, electrochemistry
touches our lives in many ways that few fully appreciate; for
example, materials as diverse as aluminum, nylon, and bleach are
manufactured electrochemically, while the batteries that power all
manner of appliances, vehicles, and devices are the products of
electrochemical research. Other realms in which
electrochemical science plays a crucial role include corrosion, the
disinfection of water, neurophysiology, sensors, energy storage,
semiconductors, the physics of thunderstorms, biomedical analysis,
and so on.

This book treats electrochemistry as a science in its own right,
albeit resting firmly on foundations provided by chemistry,
physics, and mathematics. Early chapters discuss the electrical and
chemical properties of materials from which electrochemical cells
are constructed. The behavior of such cells is addressed in later
chapters, with emphasis on the electrodes and the reactions that
occur on their surfaces. The role of transport to and from
electrodes is a topic that commands attention, because it crucially
determines cell efficiency. Final chapters deal with voltammetry,
the methodology used to investigate electrode behavior.
Interspersed among the more fundamental chapters are chapters
devoted to applications of electrochemistry: electrosynthesis,
power sources, "green electrochemistry", and
corrosion.

Electrochemical Science and Technology is addressed to
all who have a need to come to grips with the fundamentals of
electrochemistry and to learn about some of its applications. It
will constitute a text for a senior undergraduate or graduate
course in electrochemistry. It also serves as a source of material
of interest to scientists and technologists in various fields
throughout academia, industry, and government - chemists,
physicists, engineers, environmentalists, materials scientists,
biologists, and those in related endeavors.

This book:

* Provides a background to electrochemistry, as well as treating
the topic itself.

* Is accessible to all with a foundation in physical science, not
solely to chemists.

* Is addressed both to students and those later in their
careers.

* Features web links (through href="http://www.wiley.com/go/EST">www.wiley.com/go/EST) to
extensive material that is of a more tangential, specialized, or
mathematical nature.

* Includes questions as footnotes to support the reader's
evolving comprehension of the material, with fully worked answers
provided on the web.

* Provides web access to Excel¯® spreadsheets
which allow the reader to model electrochemical events.

* Has a copious Appendix of relevant data.