New addition : Autumn 2022.  Electrochemistry, especially electrocatalysis, electrochemistry of adsorbed materials is an exciting topic of research nowadays in the world. Inclusion of this topic will surely help student know the basis of  electrochemistry in greater detail.

CH 815

Inorganic Electrochemistry
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.