History of electrochemistry

This chapter is not a systematic account of the history of electrochemistry, nor does it give detailed descriptions of all the contributions made by numerous scientists who have worked in the field. The main objective of the chapter is to outline the most important milestones in the development of electrochemistry and to show the relationship between the development of electrochemistry and other sciences. At all stages of the development of electrochemistry, an intimate connection existed between the development of theoretical concepts and the discovery of methods for a practical application of electrochemical processes and phenomena. 

It would seem, at first glance, that the place of electrocapillarity ties in the history of electrochemistry rather than its future, since its application appears limited only to the mercury/electrolyte interface. However, the work of Sato and colleagues (1986, 1987, 1991) has very definitely placed the technique, or at least a development of it, very firmly at the frontiers again. 

Louis Kahlenberg s Opposition to the Theory of Electrolytic Dissociation. Proc. Symposium on Selected Topics in the History of Electrochemistry, Geo. Dubpernell and J.H. Westbrook, eds. (Proc. vol. 78-6, 1978, The Electrochem. Society, Princeton, N.J.)>pp. 299-312. 

See John Servos on the relation of physical chemistry to industry, in Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling. Also see G. Dubpemell and J. H. Westbrook, eds., Selected Topics in the History of Electrochemistry, Proceedings of the Electrochemical Society 78 (Princeton Electrochemical Society, 1978). 

Historical introductions to chemistry courses and citations in journal articles provided ample opportunity for scientists to trace family lines to suit the discipline-building task at hand and to set up a record for later historians. Ostwald made sure to settle his name into a progeny of physical chemists in his history of electrochemistry. Later, Ingold minimized the historical role of contemporary rivals by spare citations to work well known at the time. 

Dubpemell, George, and T. H. Westbrook, eds. Selected Topics in the History of Electrochemistry. Princeton The Electrochemical Society, 1978. 

Research the following information. Prepare a short presentation or booklet on the early history of electrochemistry. 

The structure and interactions of water are so important that they have been extensively studied throughout the history of electrochemistry. However, many of water s special properties remain unexplained at the molecular level, and with every new generation of experimental and theoretical tools, the subject of water is, and will continue, being revised (Figs. 6.86 and 6.87). 

The history of electrochemistry received a welcome boost in 1988 when a symposium entitled Electrochemistry Past and Present was held at the third Chemical Congress of North America at Toronto. The published proceedings contain papers describing the historical development of many electroanalytical techniques.74 Kolthoff has given an account of the state of electroanalytical chemistry prior to World War II based on personal experience.75... 

Refs. [i] Dunsch L (1985) Geschichte der Elektrochemie. VEB Deutscher Verlagfur Grundstoffindustrie, Leipzig pp 9-10 [ii] MacKechnie JC (1960) / Inst Electrical Eng 6 356 [iii] Dubpernell G (1978) Evidence of the use of primitive batteries in antiquity. In Selected topics in the history of electrochemistry. The Electrochemical Soc, Princeton, 1-22... 

An Outline of the History of Electrochemistry. Although it is the aim of this book to describe dectrochemistry as nearly as possible as it... 

Organic Electrochemistry. Fichter s classic text names Faraday, Schoenbein, and Kolbe as the founders of organic electrochemistry ( 1 ). Although published nearly half a century ago, this text and its massive bibliography are valuable aids to the study both of reactions and of the history of electrochemistry. 

The need for a common reference point for the electromotive series was evident, and serious but ineffective attempts had been made to supply this need. There were philosophical as well as practical questions involved in the choice to be made. At this point in the history of electrochemistry, no recourse appears to have been made to committee selection of an appropriate reference electrode. 

This survey is by no means a complete and critical study. It demonstrates that Mexico has contributed both ideas and happenings to the history of electrochemistry. 

Dubperne1,G. In Selected Tonics in the History of Electrochemistry The Electrochemical Society Princeton, 1978, p 1. 

Without going into a fully referenced work on the history of electrochemistry, it is easily possible to describe numerous other applications. 

Even if the tendency to identify the products and intermediates is much older and goes through many decades of history of electrochemistry, the onset of molecular electrochemistry was closely connected with the concentrated efforts to solve this problem. 

The claims that he underestimated the historical achievements of Russian scientists did hurt Frumkin, however, and briefly he turned his attention to the history of electrochemistry in Russia in order to reevaluate Russian contributions. He rated the studies of Moritz Hermann von Jacobi (21 September 1801-10 March 1874) most highly. (The Russian version of his name is Boris Semyonovich Yakobi. ) Jacobi had discovered the maximum power theorem, and his name is also associated with the development of galvanic cells for testing electric motors. In addition, Frumkin noted the priority of Pyotr Romanovich Bagration (24 September 1818-17 January 1876), who had created the first galvanic dry cell in 1843. Finally, Frumkin drew attention to the work of Kazan professor Robert Andreyevich Colley (Kolli) (25 June 1845-2 August 1891) back in 1878. Colley was the first person to use the shift of the electrode potential in a certain period of time as a measure of the interfacial capacitance and found a value of 150 pF cm for platinum. 

Kazani (Studies on the history of electrochemistry of organic compounds in Kazan). Kazan... 

By a Single Paper in the History of Electrochemistry Mihaly Polanyi and the Transfer Coefficient... 

The work by way of which Polanyi marched in the history of electrochemistry was, in fact, the application of the reaction rate theory in electrochemistry [45]. The paper that was written with Juro Horiuti (1901-1978) [45] was a milestone in the road that led the modem theory of electrochemical kinetics (Fig. 12.15). Five years earlier, T. Erdey-Gruz and M. Volmer published a paper [62] that provided an interpretation of the rate of electrochemical processes by using the theory of chemical kinetics. Erdey-Gruz and Volmer introduced herrristically a transfer coefficient (a) that was needed to reach an agreement with the experimental results. 

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