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CHM 628: Electrochemistry: Fundamentals and Applications (4)
Prerequisites: CHM 321
Introduction and Overview of Electrode processes: Electrochemical Cells and Reactions, Nature of Electrode-Solution Interface, Faradaic Reactions, Mass Transfer Controlled Reactions, Coupled Chemical Reactions.
Electrochemical Thermodynamics: Basics of Electrochemical Thermodynamics, Liquid Junction Potentials.
Kinetics of Electrochemical Reactions: Arrhenius Equation, Transition state theory, Butler Volmer model, Marcus Theory.
Electrochemical Methods: Linear Sweep Voltammetry, Cyclic Voltammetry, Square wave Voltammetry, Chronoamperometry, Chronopotentiometry, Rotating Disk Electrode, Rotating Ring-disk Electrode, AC impedance, Spectroelectrochemistry.
Applications of Electrochemistry: Electron Transfer, Characterization of Inorganic Complexes, Catalysis, Supercapacitors and Batteries.
Suggested Readings :
- Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and Applications, Allen J Bard and Larry R. Faulkner, 2nd Edition, John Wiley and Sons
- Modern Electrochemistry Ionics: Volume 1, John O’M. Bockris and Amulya K. N. Reddy, 2nd Edition, Plenum Press.
- Recent Research Publications.
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