Nanoscale Electrochemistry focuses on challenges and advances in electrochemical nanoscience at solid-liquid interfaces, highlighting the most prominent developments of the last decade. Nanotechnology has had a tremendous impact on the multidisciplinary field of electrochemistry, yielding new fundamental insights that have furthered our understanding of interfacial processes, and stimulating new and diverse applications.
The book begins with a tutorial chapter introducing the principles of nanoscale electrochemical systems, emphasizing their unique behavior compared to their macro/microscopic counterparts. Building on this, the four chapters which follow present analytical applications such as sensing and bioelectrochemistry that are familiar to the traditional electrochemist, but whose extension to the nanoscale is non-trivial and reveals new chemical information. The subsequent three chapters present exciting new "single entity" based electrochemical methodologies that are specific to the nanoscale, including nanoparticle impacts and nanopore methods. These, now sufficiently mature, techniques have paved the way for major developments in our understanding of solid-liquid interfaces and continue to push electrochemical analysis towards atomic length scales. The final three chapters address the rich overlap between electrochemistry and nanomaterials science, highlighting notable applications in energy conversion and storage.
This is an important reference for those in both academia and industry who are seeking to learn more about how nanoscale electrochemistry has developed in recent years.
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