By
Norio Sato, Professor Emeritus at Hokkaido University, NS Electrochemical Laboratory, Japan.
Description
Electrochemisty at Metal and Semiconductor Electrodes covers the structure of the electrical double layer and charge transfer
reactions across the electrode/electrolyte interface. The purpose of the book is to integrate modern electrochemistry and semiconductor
physics, thereby, providing a quantitative basis for understanding electrochemistry at metal and semiconductor electrodes.
Electrons
and ions are the principal particles which play the main role in electrochemistry. This text, therefore, emphasizes the
energy level
concepts of electrons and ions rather than the phenomenological thermodynamic and kinetic concepts on which most of the classical
electrochemistry texts are based. This rationalization of the phenomenological concepts in terms of the physics of semiconductors should
enable readers to develop more
atomistic and
quantitative insights into processes that occur at electrodes.
The book
incorporates many traditional disciplines of science and engineering such as interfacial chemistry, biochemistry, enzyme chemistry, membrane
chemistry, metallurgy, modification of solid interfaces, and materials' corrosion. The text is intended to serve as an introduction for
the study of advanced electrochemistry at electrodes and is aimed towards graduates and senior undergraduates studying materials and
interfacial chemistry or those beginning research work in the field of electrochemistry.
