Nanoscale Electrochemistry of Molecular Contacts

ISBN-13: 9783319904863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 84 str.

Paulo Roberto Bueno

Opis

In chapter two, the chemical capacitance, the fundamental concept and missing part of the puzzle that unity electronics and electrochemistry, is deduced from first principles of quantum mechanics.

This brief demonstrates how mesoscopic phenomena influence the thermodynamics involved with electron transfer/transport within molecular and supramolecular structures. Special emphasis is given to the Nerst equation and on how it fails due to mesoscopic/quantum phenomena.

Spis treści

1.       What is electrochemistry?

1.1. A review of interfacial electrochemistry

1.2. Electrochemistry of molecular and supramolecular structures

 

2. Mesosopic phenomena

 

2.1. Mesoscopic capacitance

2.1.1.        Single state level

2.1.2.        Multiple levels and density of electrochemical states

2.2. Quantum thermodynamics in electrochemistry

2.3. Quantum of conductance

2.4. Electron transfer rate

2.5. Quantum of conductance and electron transfer rate

2.6. Molecular and supramolecular electrochemistry: the case of monolayer and graphene

3. How mesoscopic phenomena operate in driven respiration?

3.1. The capacitance of microbiological systems.

3.2. Extracting the energy of respiration of biological films.

 

4. The present and future of mesoscopic electrochemistry

O autorze

Professor Paulo R. Bueno holds an MBA and Ph.D. in Theoretical Physical Chemistry. He is a research Director and Head of the Physical Chemistry Department at São Paulo State University in Brazil. His main academic interests are on applications of electric and electrochemical spectroscopic methods aiming at understanding the physical and chemistry fundaments related to electron transfer and energy storage at the nanoscale. He is a Research Fellow Director of the Royal Society of Chemistry and invited member of the American Chemical Society. Professor Bueno is also member of other scientific societies, such as the Electrochemical Society of Chemistry, the International Society of Electrochemistry and the Materials Research Society.