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Quantum Electrochemistry by John O’M. Bockris, Shahed U. M. Khan (auth.)

By John O’M. Bockris, Shahed U. M. Khan (auth.)

The beginning of this booklet lies in a time earlier than one of many authors (J. O'M. B.) left the college of Pennsylvania certain for the Flinders collage. His collaboration with Dennis Matthews on the collage of Pennsylvania had contributed a unique experimental datum to the quantum thought of elec­ trode tactics: the difference of the separation issue with power, that may purely be interpreted by way of a quantum conception of electrode kinetics. The authors got here jointly due to grad~ate paintings of 1 of them (S. U. M. K.) at the quantum mechanics and picture points of elec­ trode techniques, and this booklet was once written in the course of a postdoctoral fellowship held via him on the Flinders college. Having acknowledged the book's beginning, it's valuable mentioning the rational­ izations the authors had for writing it. traditionally, quantization in elec­ trochemistry begun very early (1931) within the functions of the quantum concept to chemistry. (See the old desk on pages xviii-xix.) there has been thereafter a cessation of labor at the quantum conception in electrochemistry until eventually a continuum dielectric point of view, in keeping with Born's equation for solvation power, started to be constructed within the Fifties and snowballed through the 1960s.

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A classical article on it by Conway and Gileadi exists. 40 Bockris, Gileadi, and Stoner 127 maintained an electrode at constant potential while observing the current produced by introducing an organic substance into solution. In the un dissociated case, the current is calculable. It is less than that in which the molecule is dissociating and injecting charge into the electrode. Few methods exist for identifying radicals on surfaces. The first was devised by Armstrong and Butler,128 who determined the amount of hydrogen on platinum.

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E. A. Blomgren, J. O'M. Bockris, and C. Jesch, J. Phys. Chem. 75, 2000 (1961). 115. B. B. Damaskin and A. N. Frumkin, Reactions of Molecules at Electrodes, (N. S. ), p. I, Wiley (Interscience), London (1971). 116. E. A. Blomgren and J. O'M. Bockris, J. Phys. Chem. 63,1475 (1959). 117. J. O'M. Bockris, M. Green, and D. A. J. Swinkels, J. Electrochem. Soc. 111, 743 (1964); J. O'M. Bockris and D. A. J. Swinkels, J. Electrochem. Soc. 111, 736 (1964). 118. B. B. Damaskin, J. Electroanal. Chem. 23, 431 (1969).

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