Double layer effects, simple electron

Further measurements need to be made on the temperature and potential dependence of the rates of simple ionic redox reactions at electrodes with proper corrections for double-layer effects at various temperatures, so that the temperature dependence of (3 for an elementary electron transfer reaction, without chemisorption and coupled atom transfer, would become better known. This is an essential requirement for progress in understanding the true significance of the temperature effects on electrode-kinetic behavior reliable experiments will not, however, be easy to accomplish and will require parallel double-layer studies over a range of temperatures. 

Simple model systems A good method in such situations is a simplification of the model so as to make it mathematically tractable. The art of the theorist consists in keeping the most relevant features of the system and discarding the others. Since in the electric double layer the electronic properties of the metal surface play the major role, the jeUium model [18], which disregards the details of the atomic structure and focuses on the distribution of the electrons, has been widely applied. While this model does notgive quantitative results for particular systems, it has greatly improved our understanding of the electronic effects we will discuss it later. 

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