CH 815 : Inorganic Electrochemistry
New, Spring elective.
Syllabus
Homogeneous electrocatalysis. Kinetic zone diagram, determination of rate constant and overpotential, Foot of the wave analysis.
Electrochemistry of adsorbed materials. Thin-film electrochemistry and its applications in protein film electrochemistry.
Probing catalytic reaction pathway via electrochemistry: ErCr, ErCi, ErCi’, CrEr, ErCiEr mechanisms and their examples.
Application of electrocatalysis: H2 production/oxidation including the effect of PCET, CO2 reduction, Lignin depolymerization, C-H bond activation.
Text References
1. J. M. Savéant and C. Costentin, Elements of Molecular and Biomolecular Electrochemistry: An Electrochemical Approach to Electron Transfer Chemistry, Wiley, 2019.
2. J. Wang, Analytical Electrochemistry, Wiley, 2006.
3. A. J. Bard, L.R. Faulkner, Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and Applications, Wiley, 2000.