PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
1 INTRODUCTION.
1.1 Definitions.
1.2 Thermodynamics and Potential.
1.3 Kinetics and Rates of Reaction.
1.4 Transport.
1.5 Concentration Overpotential and the Diffusion Potential.
1.6 Overall Cell Potential.
Problems.
Notation.
PART A: THERMODYNAMICS OF ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS.
2 THERMODYNAMICS IN TERMS OF ELECTROCHEMICAL POTENTIALS.
2.1 Phase Equilibrium.
2.2 Chemical Potential and Electrochemical Potential.
2.3 Definition of Some Thermodynamic Functions.
2.4 Cell with Solution of Uniform Concentration.
2.5 Transport Processes in Junction Regions.
2.6 Cell with a Single Electrolyte of Varying Concentration.
2.7 Cell with Two Electrolytes, One of Nearly Uniform Concentration.
2.8 Cell with Two Electrolytes, Both of Varying Concentration.
2.9 Standard Cell Potential and Activity Coefficients.
2.10 Pressure Dependence of Activity Coefficients.
2.11 Temperature Dependence of Cell Potentials.
Problems.
Notation.
References.
3 THE ELECTRIC POTENTIAL.
3.1 The Electrostatic Potential.
3.2 Intermolecular Forces.
3.3 Outer and Inner Potentials.
3.4 Potentials of Reference Electrodes.
3.5 The Electric Potential in Thermodynamics.
Notation.
References.
4 ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS.
4.1 Ionic Distributions in Dilute Solutions.
4.2 Electrical Contribution to the Free Energy.
4.3 Shortcomings of the Debye–Hu¨ckel Model.
4.4 Binary Solutions.
4.5 Multicomponent Solutions.
4.6 Measurement of Activity Coefficients.
4.7 Weak Electrolytes.
Problems.
Notation.
References.
5 REFERENCE ELECTRODES.
5.1 Criteria for Reference Electrodes.
5.2 Experimental Factors Affecting The Selection of Reference Electrodes.
5.3 The Hydrogen Electrode.
5.4 The Calomel Electrode and Other Mercury–Mercurous Salt Electrodes.
5.5 The Mercury–Mercuric Oxide Electrode.
5.6 Silver–Silver Halide Electrodes.
5.7 Potentials Relative to a Given Reference Electrode.
Notation.
References.
6 POTENTIALS OF CELLS WITH JUNCTIONS.
6.1 Nernst Equation.
6.2 Types of Liquid Junctions.
6.3 Formulas for Liquid-Junction Potentials.
6.4 Determination of Concentration Profiles.
6.5 Numerical Results.
6.6 Cells with Liquid Junction.
6.7 Error in the Nernst Equation.
6.8 Potentials Across Membranes.
Problems.
Notation.
References.
PART B: ELECTRODE KINETICS AND OTHER INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA.
7 STRUCTURE OF THE ELECTRIC DOUBLE LAYER.
7.1 Qualitative Description of Double Layers.
7.2 Gibbs Adsorption Isotherm.
7.3 The Lippmann Equation.
7.4 The Diffuse Part of the Double Layer.
7.5 Capacity of the Double Layer in the Absence of Specific Adsorption.
7.6 Specific Adsorption at an Electrode–Solution Interface.
Problems.
Notation.
References.
8 ELECTRODE KINETICS.
8.1 Heterogeneous Electrode Reactions.
8.2 Dependence of Current Density on Surface Overpotential.
8.3 Models for Electrode Kinetics.
8.4 Effect of Double-L..
