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| Preface | |
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| Equilibrium Electrochemistry and the Nernst Equation | |
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| Chemical Equilibrium | |
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| Electrochemical Equilibrium: Introduction | |
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| Electrochemical Equilibrium: Electron Transfer at the Solution-Electrode Interface | |
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| Electrochemical Equilibrium: The Nernst Equation | |
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| Walther Hermann Nernst | |
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| Reference Electrodes and the Measurement of Electrode Potentials | |
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| The Hydrogen Electrode as a Reference Electrode | |
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| Standard Electrode Potentials and Formal Potentials | |
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| Formal Potentials and Experimental Voltammetry | |
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| Electrode Processes: Kinetics vs. Thermodynamics | |
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| Electrode Kinetics | |
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| Currents and Reaction Fluxes | |
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| Studying Electrode Kinetics Requires Three Electrodes | |
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| Butler-Volmer Kinetics | |
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| Standard Electrochemical Rate Constants and Formal Potentials | |
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| The Need for Supporting Electrolyte | |
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| The Tafel Law | |
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| Julius Tafel | |
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| Multistep Electron Transfer Processes | |
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| Tafel Analysis and the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction | |
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| B. Stanley Pons | |
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| Cold Fusion - The Musical! | |
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| Why Are Some Standard Electrochemical Rate Constants Large but Others Slow? The Marcus Theory of Electron Transfer: An Introduction | |
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| Marcus Theory: Taking it Further. Inner and Outer Sphere Electron Transfer | |
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| Marcus Theory: Taking it Further. Adiabatic and Non-Adiabatic Reactions | |
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| Marcus Theory: Taking it Further. Calculating the Gibbs Energy of Activation | |
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| Relationship between Marcus Theory and Butler-Volmer Kinetics | |
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| Marcus Theory and Experiment. Success! | |
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| Diffusion | |
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| Fick's 1st Law of Diffusion | |
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| Fick's 2nd Law of Diffusion | |
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| The Molecular Basis of Fick's Laws | |
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| How Did Fick Discover His Laws? | |
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| The Cottrell Equation: Solving Fick's 2nd Law | |
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| The Cottrell Problem: The Case of Unequal Diffusion Coefficients | |
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| The Nernst Diffusion Layer | |
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| Mass Transfer vs. Electrode Kinetics: Steady-State Current-Voltage Waveshapes | |
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| Mass Transport Corrected Tafel Relationships | |
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| Cyclic Voltammetry at Macroelectrodes | |
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| Cyclic Voltammetry: The Experiment | |
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| Cyclic Voltammetry: Solving the Transport Equations | |
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| Cyclic Voltammetry: Reversible and Irreversible Kinetics | |
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| What Dictates 'Reversible' and 'Irreversible' Behaviour? | |
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| Reversible and Irreversible Behaviour: The Effect of Voltage Scan Rate | |
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| Reversible versus Irreversible Voltammetry: A Summary | |
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| The Measurement of Cyclic Voltammograms: Three Practical Considerations | |
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| The Effect of Unequal Diffusion Coefficients, D<sub>A</sub> ≠ D<sub>B</sub> | |
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| Multiple Electron Transfer: Reversible Electrode Kinetics | |
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| Multiple Electron Transfer: Irreversible Electrode Kinetics | |
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| The Influence of pH on Cyclic Voltammetry | |
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| The Scheme of Squares | |
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| Simultaneous Two-Electron Transfer in Electrode Kinetics? | |
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| Voltammetry at Microelectrodes | |
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| The Cottrell Equation for a Spherical or Hemispherical Electrode | |
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| Potential Step Transients at Microdisc Electrodes | |
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| Microelectrodes Have Large Current Densities and Fast Response Times | |
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| Applications of Potential Step Chronoamperometry Using Microdisc Electrodes | |
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| Double Potential Step Microdisc Chronoamperometry Exploring the Diffusion Coefficient of Electrogenerated Species | |
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| Cyclic and Linear Sweep Voltammetry Using Microdisc Electrodes | |
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| Steady-State Voltammetry at the Microdisc Electrode | |
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| Microelectrodes versus Macroelectrodes | |
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| Ultrafast Cyclic Voltammetry: Megavolts per Second Scan Rates | |
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| Ultrasmall Electrodes: Working at the Nanoscale | |
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| Voltammetry at Heterogeneous Surfaces | |
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| Partially Blocked Electrodes | |
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| Microelectrode Arrays | |
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| Voltammetry at Highly Ordered Pyrolytic Graphite Electrodes | |
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| Electrochemically Heterogeneous Electrodes | |
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| Electrodes Covered with Porous Films | |
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| Voltammetric Particle Sizing | |
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| Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (SECM) | |
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| Cyclic Voltammetry: Coupled Homogeneous Kinetics and Adsorption | |
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| Homogeneous Coupled Reactions: Notation and Examples | |
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| Modifying Fick's Second Law to Allow for Chemical Reaction | |
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| Cyclic Voltammetry and the EC Reaction | |
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| How Do the Parameters K<sub>1</sub> and ∧ Emerge? | |
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| Cyclic Voltammetry and the EC<sub>2</sub> Reaction | |
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| Examples of EC and EC<sub>2</sub> Processes | |
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| ECE Processes | |
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| ECE versus DISP | |
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| The CE Mechanism | |
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| The EC' (Catalytic) Mechanism | |
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| Adsorption | |
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| Voltammetric Studies of Droplets and Solid Particles | |
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| Hydrodynamic Electrodes | |
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| Convection | |
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| Modifying Fick's Laws to Allow for Convection | |
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| The Rotating Disc Electrode: An Introduction | |
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| The Rotating Disc Electrode - Theory | |
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| Osborne Reynolds (1842-1912) | |
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| The Rotating Disc Electrode - Further Theory | |
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| Chronoamperometry at the Rotating Disc Electrode: An Illustration of the Value of Simulation | |
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| The Rotating Disc and Coupled Homogeneous Kinetics | |
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| The Channel Electrode: An Introduction | |
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| The Channel Electrode: The Levich Equation Derived | |
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| Channel Flow Cells and Coupled Homogeneous Kinetics | |
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| Chronoamperometry at the Channel Electrode | |
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| The Channel Electrode is not 'Uniformly Accessible' | |
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| Channel Microelectrodes | |
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| Channel Microband Electrode Arrays for Mechanistic Electrochemistry | |
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| The High Speed Channel Electrode | |
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| Hydrodynamic Electrodes Based on Impinging jets | |
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| Sonovoltammetry | |
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| Voltammetry for Electroanalysis | |
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| Potential Step Voltammetric Techniques | |
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| Differential Pulse Voltammetry | |
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| Square Wave Voltammetry | |
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| Stripping Voltammetry | |
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| Sono-electroanalysis | |
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| Voltammetry in Weakly Supported Media: Migration and Other Effects | |
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| Potentials and Fields in Fully Supported Voltammetry | |
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| The Distribution of Ions Around a Charged Electrode | |
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| The Electrode-Solution Interface: Beyond the Gouy-Chapman Theory | |
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| Double Layer Effect on Electrode Kinetics: Frumkin Effects | |
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| A.N. Frumkin | |
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| Transport by Diffusion and by Migration | |
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| Measurement of Ion Mobilities | |
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| Liquid Junction Potentials | |
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| Chronoamperometry and Cyclic Voltammetry in Weakly Supported Media | |
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| Voltammetry at the Nanoscale | |
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| Transport to Particles Supported on an Electrode | |
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| Nanoparticle Voltammetry: The Transport Changes as the Electrode Shrinks in Size | |
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| Altered Chemistry at the Nanoscale | |
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| Appendix: Simulation of Electrode Processes | |
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| Fick's First and Second Laws | |
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| Boundary Conditions | |
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| Finite Difference Equations | |
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| Backward Implicit Method | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Index | |