Cyclic Voltammetry and the Frontiers of Electrochemistry

This text adopts an unique classification of electrochemical processes and introduces the subject in a stepwise fashion, from simple solution electrochemistry to photo-electrochemistry. The reader can thus obtain a comprehensive view of the recent trends in electrochemistry without serious difficulty. The experimental method for attacking each type of problem is given in separate chapters with a number of examples. Hence a research worker can obtain the latest information relevant to this problem and also possible approaches for solving his own problems. This book treats the electrochemical concepts and cyclic voltammetric methods with equal weight. In recent times, great strides have been made to understand the basic processes that occur at the electrode-electrolyte interfaces, that form the basis of many classical technologies like electrometallurgy, electroplating, batteries, corrosion and electrosynthesis; and promising new technologies like conducting polymers and photoelectrochemistry. This monography has two aims. Firstly, it aims to introduce models employed in the electrochemical field, which explain the classical as well as newly emerging frontiers in a uniform and systematic way. Secondly, it describes the methodology of investigating these processes using one of the simplest and most widely employed analytical tools; the cyclic voltammetry. This treatise, starting from basic principles and going on to advanced research in different disciplines of electrochemistry, would be of interest to physical chemistry, analytical chemistry and electrochemistry students. Also industrial electrochemists who whould like to understand and improve their own technologies; biochemists who would like to probe bioredox process; surface chemists in the field of catalysis and surface protection, and photochemists and photophysicists who would like to tap solar energy into electrical form.

Table of Contents:
Interfacial processes in electrochemistry; cyclic voltammetry technique; reversible charge transfer and diffusion; charge transfer kinetics and diffusion; chemical kinetics, charge transfer and diffusion; deposition and dissolution processes; formation and dissolution of monolayers; formation and growth of bulk phases; monolayer redox processes; thin film redox processes; surface effects in simple electron transfer processes; processes involving adsorbed intermediaries; catalysis and inhibition by monolayers; catalysis and inhibition by thin layers; molecular photoexcitation; photoexcitation of semiconductor electrodes.