Interfacial electrochemistry

Surface — In physics and chemistry, the term surface means the termination of a solid or liquid phase bordering to vacuum. As this is an almost impossible to realize case (at least the equilibrium vapor phase of the liquid or solid phase will always boarder to the condensed phase), surface means practically always the interface between two phases, i.e., two solid phases, two liquid phases, a solid phase and a liquid phase, a solid phase and a gas phase, or a liquid phase and a gas phase. Hence, the term interface should be preferred. Since - electrodes are a major field of research in - electrochemistry (interfacial electrochemistry) the study of surfaces (interfaces) with respect to their structure, effects on -> electron transfer and - ion transfer reactions, its changes in electrochemical reactions, its - electrocatalytic effects, etc. are of major importance. 

The wide scope of topics covered makes this book of particular importance to new and established researchers in physical chemistry, electrochemistry, interfacial science, and materials research. The subjects treated also make the volume substantive reading for researchers in other more applied sciences. 

Trassatti S 1986 Trends in Interfacial Electrochemistry (NATO ASI Series 179) ed A Fernando Silva (Dordrecht Reidel)... 

A large number of studies concerned witli tliiol-tenninated molecules has been directed at tire preparation of tailored organic surfaces, since tlieir importance has been steadily increasing in various applications. Films of o> functionalized alkanetliiols have facilitated fundamental studies of interfacial phenomena, such as adhesion [190, 191], corrosion protection [192], electrochemistry [193], wetting [194], protein adsorjDtion [195, 196] or molecular recognition [197, 198, 199, 200 and 201] to mention only a few. 

M. L. Berkowitz, I.-C. Yeh, E. Spohr. Structure of water at the water/metal interface. Molecular dynamics computer simulations. In A. Wieckowski, ed. Interfacial Electrochemistry. New York Marcel Dekker, 1999, (in press). 

W. Schmickler. Interfacial Electrochemistry. New York Oxford University Press, 1996. 

In principle, a measurement of upon water adsorption gives the value of the electrode potential in the UHV scale. In practice, the interfacial structure in the UHV configuration may differ from that at an electrode interface. Thus, instead of deriving the components of the electrode potential from UHV experiments to discuss the electrochemical situation, it is possible to proceed the other way round, i.e., to examine the actual UHV situation starting from electrochemical data. The problem is that only relative quantities are measured in electrochemistry, so that a comparison with UHV data requires that independent data for at least one metal be available. Hg is usually chosen as the reference (model) metal for the reasons described earlier. 

S. Trasatti, in Trends in Interfacial Electrochemistry, A. F. Silva, ed., Reidel, Dordrecht,... 

R. Truu, P. Kippasto, andE. Lust, Proc. Baltic Conf. on Interfacial Electrochemistry, 1996, p. 232. 

Benjamin, I. Molecular Dynamic Simulations in Interfacial Electrochemistry 31... 

The National Science Formdation should expand its support to surface and interfacial engineering, focusing on surface chemistry, catalysis, electrochemistry, colloid and interfacial... 

S.2.3.2 Single-Crystal Photoelectrodes - A Closer Look into Interfacial Electrochemistry... 

Hepel, M., Electrode-solntion interface studied with electrochemical quartz crystal nanobalance, in Interfacial Electrochemistry, A. J. Wieckowski, Ed., Marcel Dekker, New York, 1999, p. 599. 

Schmickler, W., Interfacial Electrochemistry, Oxford University Press, New York, 1996. 

Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry and Interfacial Electrochemistry, Elsevier Sequoia, Lausanne, Switzerland. 

Interfacial water molecules play important roles in many physical, chemical and biological processes. A molecular-level understanding of the structural arrangement of water molecules at electrode/electrolyte solution interfaces is one of the most important issues in electrochemistry. The presence of oriented water molecules, induced by interactions between water dipoles and electrode and by the strong electric field within the double layer has been proposed [39-41]. It has also been proposed that water molecules are present at electrode surfaces in the form of clusters [42, 43]. Despite the numerous studies on the structure of water at metal electrode surfaces using various techniques such as surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy [44, 45], surface infrared spectroscopy [46, 47[, surface enhanced infrared spectroscopy [7, 8] and X-ray diffraction [48, 49[, the exact nature of the structure of water at an electrode/solution interface is still not fully understood. 

Schmickler W. 1996. Interfacial Electrochemistry. New York Oxford University Press. Schmickler W, Koper MTM. 1999. Adiabahc electrochemical electron-transfer reactions involving frequency changes of iimer-sphete modes. Electrochem Comm 1 402-405. Schmickler W, Mohr J. 2002. The rate of electrochemical electron-transfer reachons. J Chem Phys 117 2867-2872. 

Hamnett A. 1999. Mechanism of methanol oxidation. In Wieckowski A, ed. Interfacial Electrochemistry Theory, Experiments and Applications. New York Marcel Dekker. pp. 843-883. 

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