Electrochemistry and biology

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The electrochemistry and biological redox behavior of members of four classes. of compounds will be considered. These are catecholamines, phenothiazines, biological quinones, and purines. 

The area of impedance studies of self-assembled monolayers, bilayers, and biosensors is among the recent applications of EIS. They represent an area under development that has interesting fundamental and possibly practical applications. Research in this area falls somewhere between electrochemistry and biology and requires a sound knowledge of both domains. Apparently, knowledge of EIS is often insufficient. 

Bioelectrochemistry as a field of science lies at the point of intersection of electrochemistry and biology. It studies the phenomena and objects that belong to the fields of electrophysiology, biochemistry and biophysics, but it uses electrochemical approaches and methods. Picking up problems from various fields of biology, bioelectrochemistry seeks to resolve them using various models as similar as possible to the object and reconstructing separate cellular systems and functions. 

With the combination of more and more results both from simulation and experiments, a profound knowledge is gained now about the behavior of electrolytes, and especially about how to describe specific ion effects beyond Coulomb interactiOTis. This is of utmost importance in engineering, electrochemistry, and biology [34]. 

The pH is a characteristic value for aqueous media. In chemistry, electrochemistry and biology, this is a very important parameter because it helps understand reactions in aqueous media. The pH value is involved in the precipitation of hydroxides for example, magnesia Mg(OH)2 contained in water or seawater precipitates in alkaline media, generally on the metal s surface this may modify its corrosion resistance (see Section B.5.5). The precipitation of carbonates is also related to the pH value. 

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