Learning objectives

Electrochemical
systems/energy
Homework 1
What is/are your intereference(s)?

2-3 lines or points

Deadline : 11:30 AM on 2nd August
 What are we going to learn?
Electroanalytical chemistry
Techniques of electroanalytical chemistry
Electrochemical sensors and devices

Advanced Materials, 2015

Homework 2
How about a boiled potato? Other vegetables/fruits?
2-3 lines or points
Deadline : 12:30 PM on 4th August
 Importance of non-equilibrium electrochemical processes

• Battery without charge • Battery at eq.

• Current, i = 0 • Current, i = 0
• Ratef = Rateb = 0 • Ratef = Rateb ≠ 0
Charging

AC-DC
converter
NON NERNSTIAN

• Ratef >> Rateb • Rateb >> Ratef

• Current, i ≠ 0 • Current, i ≠ 0
• • Tending towards eq.
Nernst equation and cold fusion : Fleishchmann-Pons experiment

Nernst equation -> Determine fugacity

Pressure of D2 on Pd surface ~ 1027 atm!!!

“The Nernst equation, applicable under equilibrium conditions, was used

to relate the overpotential in an electrochemical cell to deuterium
fugacity. If this simple, but erroneous procedure is followed, a large
overpotential does give a high deuterium fugacity.” Science, 1990

Nernst equation is applicable at equilibrium and not

when current is flowing through the cell.
 What are we going to learn?
Electrochemical Kinetics
• Electrode-electrolyte interface and nature of double layer
• Electrocapillarity
• Kinetics of electrode processes
• Equivalent circuit representation of electrode processes
• Overpotential, origin, types and applications
• Faradaic and non-Faradaic reactions
• Cyclic voltammetry, Butler-Volmer equation and linear
sweep voltammetry
• Limiting cases of B-V equation
• Electrocatalysis : source of clean energy
Electrochemical energy systems
• Super-capacitors and pseudo-capacitors
• Li-ion batteries
• Redox flow batteries
Text books :
1. Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and Applications,
2nd Edition, Allen J. Bard, Larry R. Faulkner.
2. Electrochemical Science and Technology: Fundamentals
and Applications, Keith B. Oldham, Jan C. Myland, Alan
M. Bond.
3. Modern Electrochemistry 2B: Electrodics, John O M
Bockris, Amulya K N Reddy.
 Terminology

Anti-bonding

Electrode Electrolyte

Bonding

Electronic charge transport Ionic charge transport

Electronic conductivity Ionic conductivity.
Metals, semiconductors, solids, liquids Liquid solutions, fused salts
 Surface Science Materials, 2016, 9 1016
DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2018.03.010

God made the bulk;

the surface was invented by the devil
Wolfgang Pauli
(1945 Nobel Prize lecture)