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Modern Electrochemistry 2A: Fundamentals of Electrodics

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These authors have a great writing style. This is a subject matter that has a potential to be very, very dry but the authors have somehow made it enjoyable. If they get into hardcore calculations and derivations that you might be a little rusty on, they anticipate that (I assume from lots of students' feedback) and include appendixes at the end of each chapter so that you don't need to run off and find the corresponding chapter in one of your math/physics/chemistry textbooks. They also have a very useful nomenclature guide (in the first book only) in case you keep forgetting what certain symbols mean and what units they are in. The footnotes are great and keep things from getting too dry. Overall, I would definitely recommend these three books.

Note: Unless you have a fetish for hard covers, get the paperbacks; they're half the cost. When I bought these books from amazon.com, it was very confusing to figure out which books to get. Here are the ISBN's of each of the three books in the series. This will save you some headache:

Electrochemistry 1: Ionics

ISBN: 0306455552 (paperback)

Electrochemistry 2A: Fundamentals of Electrodics

ISBN: 0306461676 (paperback)

Electrochemistry 2B: Electrodics in Chemistry, Engineering, Biology, and Environmental Science

ISBN: 0306463253 (paperback)

First things first: this book, as the other two books in the series, are about electochemistry, not analytical electrochemistry. That is, in this volume in particular, the fundamental aspects of electrode reactions (that is heterogeneous electron transfer) are covered.
This is not a book on electroanalytical techniques.

The aspects regarding the motion of ions and molecules in solution (diffusion, migration...) are not covered (they are thoroughly explained in the first volume: Modern electrochemistry 1: Ionics) and are frequently referenced to, so i'd suggest you get some understanding of how they work before you venture into this book.

Now let's get to volume 2A: i love this book. It is written in an extremely clear and concise style. The authors are very careful always to present the phenomena they're describing both with an inutive and with a more mathematical approach, while never losing touch with the physics behind them.
The topics covered range from double-layer structure, to electrodics (kinetics including multi-step reactions, transpost phenomena, crystal structure influence on kinetics) and an introduction to quantum electrodics.
At the end of each chapter is also a very useful list of papers that dig deeper into the topics presented. Basicly everything one can wish to find in a textbook.

I cannot but encourage one to get all of the 3 books in the series (paperback, the hardcovers have a rather silly price...).