Course title:               Applied Electrochemistry      

Course code:              KEXXX         

Type of course:          Free Choice    

Level of course:         Master            

Year of study:            5         

Semester/trimester:   1

Number of credits allocated (student workload based):    5

Name of lecturer:      Prof. Boris Pihlar.      

Objective of the course (expected learning outcomes and competences to be acquired):

Learning outcomes: Understanding of fundamental electrochemical processes and principles important for the applications of electrochemistry in research, industry and chemical analysis.

Competences: Be able to understand electrochemical events in the nature and to apply instrumentation and techniques for the study of electrochemical processes and systems.

Prerequisites: B.Sc. of Chemistry; B. Sc. of Chemical Engineering, Material Science, Physics and Biochemistry should have knowledge given in CHEM courses: KE112, KE 119, KE127

Course contents:

Review of electrode processes: the electrical double layer, charge transfer and kinetics of electrode reaactions (Butler-Volmer and Tafel equations), transport phenomena, mechanism of electrode reactions (HER, HRR, ORR), simulation of electrode processes.

Methods for the investigation of electrode processes: Potentiostatic and galvanostatic techniques, transient techniques (chronoamperometry, chronocoulometry and chronopo-tentiometry), cyclic voltammetry, impedance measurements.

Electrochemistry in material science: electrodeposition, electrosynthesis and related phenomena (UPD, SAM’s). Electrochemical corrosion: thermodynamic and kinetic aspects (Pourbaix, Wagner-Traud), electrochemical corrosion investigation and protection. Electrochemical power sources (primary and secondary batteries, fuel cells).

Advanced electroanalytical methods and sensors: voltammetry and stripping techniques in analysis, speciation and metal-ligand investigations, microelectrodes, modified electrodes, flow-through electrodes.

Hyphenated Electrochemical Techniques: spectroelectrochemistry, electrochemical (EC) detection in HPLC, FIA, CZE, and MS.

Recommended reading:

A.J. Bard, M. Stratmann, Eds., Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry, Vol. 2, Interfacial Kinetics and Mass Transport, Vol. Ed. E.J. Calvo, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2003.

J.O’ M. Bockris, A.K.N. Reddy, Modern Electrochemistry, Electrodics in Chemistry, Engineering, Biology, and Environmental Science, Vol. 2B, 2^nd Ed., Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 2000.

R. Greef, R. Peat, L.M. Peter, D. Pletcher, J. Robinson, Instrumental Methods in Electrochemistry, Ellis Horwood Lim., Chichester, 1985.

A.J. Bard, M. Stratmann, Eds., Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry, Vol. 3, Instrumentation and Electroanalytical Chemistry, Vol. Ed. P.R. Unwin, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2003.

Teaching methods:    Lectures, seminars, experimental projects

Assessment methods: Seminars (20 %), projects (30 %) exam (50 %).

Language of instruction: Slovenian/English