Electroanalytical Chemistry: A Series of Advances, Vol. 22

INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES......Page 4
CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME 22......Page 6
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 22......Page 8
CONTENTS OF OTHER VOLUMES......Page 14
LOOKING AT THE METAL/SOLUTION INTERFACE WITH THE ELECTROCHEMICAL QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE: THEORY AND EXPERIMENT......Page 20
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 21
II. THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE QCM RESPONSE......Page 27
III. ELECTRICAL DOUBLE LAYER/ELECTROSTATIC ADSORPTION......Page 52
IV. ADSORPTION STUDIES......Page 62
V. METAL DEPOSITION......Page 79
VI. THE INFLUENCE OF ROUGHNESS ON THE RESPONSE OF THE QCM IN LIQUIDS......Page 89
VII. CONCLUSION......Page 102
VIII. APPENDIX......Page 105
THE INDIRECT LASER-INDUCED TEMPERATURE JUMP METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING FAST INTERFACIAL ELECTRON TRANSFER: CONCEPT, APPLICATION, AND RESULTS......Page 120
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 122
II. THE EVOLUTION OF THE ILIT METHOD FOR THE STUDY OF FAST INTERFACIAL ELECTRON TRANSFER KINETICS......Page 127
III. RELEVANT ELECTRON TRANSFER THEORY: MARCUS’S DESCRIPTION OF HETEROGENEOUS NONADIABATIC ELECTRON TRANSFER REACTIONS......Page 131
IV. ANALYSIS OF THE ILIT RESPONSE......Page 139
V. EXPERIMENTAL IMPLEMENTATION OF ILIT......Page 162
VI. A FEW EXAMPLES OF MEASUREMENTS OF INTERFACIAL KINETICS......Page 182
VIII. SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT FUTURE EXPERIMENTS......Page 185
IX. GLOSSARY OF TERMS......Page 189
X. APPENDIX: ONE-DIMENSIONAL THERMAL DIFFUSION INTO TWO DIFFERENT PHASES......Page 192
ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTING DIAMOND THIN FILMS: ADVANCED ELECTRODE MATERIALS FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGIES......Page 200
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 201
II. DIAMOND THIN FILM DEPOSITION, ELECTRODE ARCHITECTURES, SUBSTRATE MATERIALS, AND ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS......Page 204
III. ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY OF DIAMOND ELECTRODES......Page 213
IV. CHARACTERIZATION OF MICROCRYSTALLINE AND NANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND THIN FILM ELECTRODES......Page 214
V. BASIC ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF MICROCRYSTALLINE AND NANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND THIN FILM ELECTRODES......Page 220
VI. FACTORS AFFECTING ELECTRON TRANSFER AT DIAMOND ELECTRODES......Page 231
VII. SURFACE MODIFICATION OF DIAMOND MATERIALS AND ELECTRODES......Page 235
VIII. ELECTROANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS......Page 238
IX. ELECTROSYNTHESIS AND ELECTROLYTIC WATER PURIFICATION......Page 257
X. OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT ELECTRODES FOR SPECTROELECTROCHEMISTRY......Page 258
XI. ADVANCED ELECTROCATALYST SUPPORT MATERIALS......Page 270
XII. CONCLUSIONS......Page 286
AUTHOR INDEX......Page 298
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 314