Principles of Electrochemistry

Contents......Page 3
Preface to the First Edition......Page 8
Preface to the Second Edition......Page 11
1.1 Electrolytes: Elementary Concepts......Page 12
1.2 Structure of Solutions......Page 24
1.3 Interionic Interactions......Page 39
1.4 Acids and Bases......Page 56
1.5 Special Cases of Electrolytic Systems......Page 80
2.1 Irreversible Processes......Page 90
2.2 Common Properties of the Fluxes of Thermodynamic Quantities......Page 92
2.3 Production of Entropy, the Driving Forces of Transport Phenomena......Page 95
2.4 Conduction of Electricity in Electrolytes......Page 98
2.5 Diffusion and Migration in Electrolyte Solutions......Page 115
2.6 The Mechanism of Ion Transport in Solutions, Solids, Melts and Polymers......Page 131
2.7 Transport in a Flowing Liquid......Page 145
3.1 Structure and Electrical Properties of Interfacial Regions......Page 155
3.2 Reversible Electrodes......Page 180
3.3 Potentiometry......Page 202
4.1 General Properties......Page 209
4.2 Electrocapillarity......Page 214
4.3 Structure of the Electrical Double Layer......Page 224
4.4 Methods of the Electrical Double-layer Study......Page 242
4.5 The Electrical Double Layer at the Electrolyte-Non-metallic Phase Interface......Page 246
5.1 Basic Concepts and Definitions......Page 256
5.2 Elementary Outline of Simple Electrode Reactions......Page 264
5.3 The Theory of Electron Transfer......Page 277
5.4 Transport in Electrode Processes......Page 290
5.5 Methods and Materials......Page 301
5.6 Chemical Reactions in Electrode Processes......Page 355
5.7 Adsorption and Electrode Processes......Page 363
5.8 Deposition and Oxidation of Metals......Page 379
5.9 Organic Electrochemistry......Page 395
5.10 Photoelectrochemistry......Page 401
6.1 Basic Concepts and Definitions......Page 421
6.2 Ion-exchanger Membranes......Page 426
6.3 Ion-selective Electrodes......Page 436
6.4 Biological Membranes......Page 444
6.5 Examples of Biological Membrane Processes......Page 465
Appendix A Recalculation Formulae for Concentrations and Activity Coefficients......Page 484
Appendix В List of Symbols......Page 485
Index......Page 488