Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and Applications 2nd Edition, by Allen J. Bard and Larry R. Faulkner describes the current state off the field Significant additions include ultramicroelectrodes, modified electrodes, and scanning probe methods. Many chapters have been modified and improved, including electrode kinetics, voltammetric methods, and mechanisms of coupled chemical reactions.
This book takes the student from the most basic chemical and physical principles through fundamentals of thermodynamics, kinetics, and mass transfer, to a thorough treatment of all important experimental methods. It contains numerous examples, illustrations, end-of-chapter problems, references, uniform mathematical notation, and an extensive list of symbols, abbreviations, definitions, and dimensions.
It treats application of electrochemical methods to elucidation of reaction mechanisms; double layer structure and surface processes, and their effects on electrode processes are developed from first principles; other key features include a chapter on operational amplifier circuits and electrochemical instrumentation, unique coverage of spectrometric and photochemical experiments, and Laplace transform and digital simulation techniques.
New material has been added in the following areas; applications of ultramicroelectrodes, phenomena at well-defined surfaces, modified electrodes, modern electron-transfer theory, scanning probe methods, LCEC, impedance spectrometry, modern forms of pulse voltammetry, and various aspects of spectroelectrochemistry.
Chapter 5 in the first edition "Controlled Potential Microelectrode Techniques-Potential Step Methods" has been divided into two new chapters, 5 ""Basic Potential Step Methods" and 7 "Polarography and Pulse Voltammetry" in the new edition.
Chapter 12 "Double-Layer Structure and Adsorbed Intermediates in Electrode Processes" in the old edition has become Chapters 13 " Double-Layer Structure and Adsorption" and 14 " Electroactive Layers and Modified Electrodes" in the new edition.
The previous edition had a single chapter on experiments in which other characterization methods are coupled to electrochemical systems (Chapter 14). The new edition has a new Chapter 16 "Scanning Probe Techniques" as well as Chapter 17 "Spectroelectrochemistry and Other Coupled Characterization Methods" and Chapter 18 "Photoelectrochemistry and Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence".
This textbook for a senior undergraduate or beginning graduate course introduces the fundamentals of electrochemical methods now in widespread use. The second edition adds coverage of phenomena at well-defined surfaces, modified electrodes, scanning probe methods, LCEC, impedance spectrometry, and applications of ultramicrolectrodes. It is an excellent textbook and a highly recommended addition to one's personal library.
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