1 Equilibrium Electrochemistry and the Nernst Equation

1.1 Cell Thermodynamics

1.2 The Nernst Equation

1.3 The Nernst Equation

1.4 The Nernst Equation

1.5 Theory of the Nernst Equation

1.6 The Debye-Hückel Limiting Law

1.7 Cell Reaction and Equilibrium Constant

1.8 Cell Reaction and Equilibrium Constant

1.9 Cell Reaction and Solubility Product

1.10 Cell Reaction and pKa

1.11 Cell Thermodynamics and Temperature

1.12 Cell Thermodynamics and Temperature

1.13 Cell Energetics

1.14 Cell EMF and pH

1.15 Cell Reaction and Equilibria

1.16 Cell Reaction and Kw

1.17 Cell Reaction and Disproportionation

1.18 Fuel Cell Energetics

1.19 Fuel Cell Energetics

1.20 The Influence of Temperature on the Self-Ionisation of Water

1.21 Cell Reaction and Complexation

1.22 Reference Electrodes

1.23 Formal Potentials

1.24 Formal Potentials

1.25 Standard Potentials and pH

1.26 Standard Potentials and pH

1.27 Standard Potentials and pH

2 Electrode Kinetics

2.1 Faraday's Laws of Electrolysis

2.2 Electrodeposition

2.3 Tafel Analysis:One-Electron Processes

2.4 Tafel Analysis:Electrochemically Reversible Processes

2.5 Tafel Analysis:Mass Transport Correction

2.6 Tafel Analysis:Two-Electron Processes

2.7 The Butler-Volmer Equation and the Nernst Equation

2.8 The Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

2.9 Requirement for Supporting Electrolyte

2.10 Frumkin Corrections

2.11 Marcus Theory and Standard Electrochemical Rate Constants

2.12 Marcus Theory and Butler-Volmer Kinetics

2.13 Marcus Theory and the Role of Solvent

2.14 Marcus Theory and the Inverted Region

3 Diffusion

3.1 Fick's Laws of Diffusion

3.2 Fick's Laws of Diffusion

3.3 Diffusion Distances

3.4 The Cottrell Equation

3.5 Derivation of the Cottrell Equation

3.6 Diffusion and Root-Mean-Square Displacement

4 Cyclic Voltammetry at Macroelectrodes

4.1 Cyclic Voltammetry:Electrochemically Reversible Voltammetry

4.2 Cyclic Voltammetry:Electrochemically Irreversible Voltammetry

4.3 Reversible vs Irreversible Voltammetry

4.4 Voltammetric Diagnostics

4.5 Voltammetry and Scan Rate Effects

4.6 Ferrocene Voltammetry

4.7 Ferrocene Voltammetry

4.8 Features of Cyclic Voltammograms

4.9 Derivation of the Randles-？ev？ík Equation

4.10 Reversible Two-Electron Transfer

4.11 The Influence of pH on Cyclic Voltammetry

4.12 The Scheme of Squares

4.13 The EE-Comproportionation Mechanism

5 Voltammetry at Microelectrodes

5.1 Steady-State Concentration Profile in Spherical Space

5.2 Current Transients at a Spherical Electrode

5.3 Linear vs Convergent Diffusion

5.4 Dissolution of Microparticles

5.5 Steady-State Limiting Current at a Microdisc

5.6 Microdisc vs Planar Electrode

5.7 The Shoup-Szabo Equation

5.8 Steady-State Electrolysis

5.9 Effect of Unequal Diffusion Coefficients

5.10 Temperature Effects on Steady-State Currents

5.11 ECE Mechanism at a Microdisc Electrode

5.12 EC' Mechanism at a Microdisc Electrode

5.13 Size Effects on Half-Wave Potentials

5.14 Extracting Parameters from Microdisc Chronoamperometry

5.15 Extracting Parameters from Microdisc Chronoamperometry

6 Voltammetry at Heterogeneous Surfaces

6.1 Graphitic Electrodes

6.2 Carbon Nanotubes and Their Reactivity

6.3 Highly Ordered Pyrolytic Graphite and the Influence of Defects

6.4 Advantages of Arrays

6.5 Diffusional'Cases'

6.6 Geometry of a Regular Array

6.7 Analysis of Diffusion to Electrode Arrays

6.8 Partially Blocked Electrodes

7 Cyclic Voltammetry:Coupled Homogeneous Kinetics and Adsorption

7.1 EE Mechanism and Comproportionation

7.2 EE mechanism:The Reduction of [(η6-C6Me6)2Ru][BF4]2

7.3 EC2 Mechanism:The Reduction of the 2,6-Diphenyl Pyrylium Cation

7.4 Analysis of an Unknown Reaction Mechanism

7.5 EC Mechanism:Diethyl Maleate

7.6 ECE Mechanism:p-chlorobenzonitrile

7.7 ECE vs DISP 1:Voltammetry of Fluorescein

7.8 Reduction of Anthracene in DMF

7.9 CE Mechanism

7.10 EC' Mechanism

7.11 EC' Mechanism:Cysteine and Ferrocyanide

7.12 EC' Mechanism:Oxygen and Anthraquinone

7.13 Chronoamperometry of Adsorbed Species

7.14 Voltammetry of an Ideal Adsorbed Species

7.15 Non-Ideal Adsorbed Species

7.16 Irreversible Electron Transfer and Adsorbed Redox Species

7.17 Voltammetry of Ferrocyanide/Ferricyanide

8 Hydrodynamic Electrodes

8.1 Channel Electrodes and Limiting Currents

8.2 Channel Electrodes and Reynolds Number

8.3 Flow to Rotating Discs and in Channels

8.4 Channel Electrodes and ECE Processes

8.5 Channel Electrodes and ECE Processes

8.6 Channel Electrodes and Entry Length

8.7 Channel Electrodes and Diffusion Coefficients

8.8 Channel Electrodes and Current Distribution

8.9 Wall-Jet Electrodes and Current Distribution

8.10 Wall-Jet Electrodes and Diffusion Coefficients

8.11 Wall-Jet Electrode and a DISP 1 Process

8.12 Wall-Jet Electrode and EC Processes

8.13 Sono-Voltammetry

8.14 Rotating Disc Electrodes and Reynolds Number

8.15 Wall-Jet and Rotating Disc Electrodes

8.16 Rotating Disc Electrodes and ECE Processes

9 Voltammetry for Electroanalysis

9.1 Electrochemical Sizing of Gold Surfaces

9.2 Differential Pulse Voltammetry

9.3 Square-Wave Voltammetry

9.4 Square-Wave Voltammetry and Dissolved Oxygen

9.5 Stripping Voltammetry

9.6 Analysis of DNA

9.7 The Clark Cell

9.8 Calibration and Limits of Detection

9.9 Enzyme Electrodes

9.10 Glucose Biosensors

9.11 Detection of Vitamin B12

9.12 The Anodic Stripping Voltammetry of Industrial Effluent

9.13 Adsorptive Stripping Voltammetry at Carbon Nanotube Modified Electrodes

9.14 Surface Modified Electrodes

9.15 Electron Transfer Rates at Carbon Electrodes

10 Voltammetry in Weakly Supported Media:Migration and Other Effects

10.1 Coulomb's Law

10.2 The Nernst-Planck Equation

10.3 Migration and the Electric Field

10.4 Transport Numbers and Liquid Junction Potentials

10.5 Transport Numbers and the Hittorf Method

10.6 The Gouy-Chapman Equation

10.7 Ohmic Drop

10.8 The Zero-Field Approximation

10.9 Self-Supported Reduction of the Cobaltocenium Cation

11 Voltammetry at the Nanoscale

11.1 Debye Length vs Diffusion Layer Thickness

11.2 Altered Electrode Kinetics and Reactivity at the Nanoscale

11.3 Nanoparticles:Case 4 Behaviour

11.4 'Coulomb Staircase'Effects

11.5 Ultrafast'Single Molecule'Voltammetry

11.6 Thin-Layer Effects in Nanoscale Voltammetry

11.7 Voltammetry in a Nanochannel

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