Course Details

1	Title of the course (L-T-P-C)	Electrochemistry (3-0-0-3)
2	Pre-requisite courses(s)	Fundamental concepts and applications of chemistry (CH101)
3	Course content	Introduction to electrochemistry, electrode potentials, galvanic and electrolytic cells, electrode kinetics, dynamic electrochemistry, Liquid and solid electrolytes. Solid and liquid ionic conductors. The electrochemical double layer- theory and models. Overpotentials. Cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry, chronopotentiometry. Electrochemical syntheses of solid materials. Solid state electrochemistry. Intercalation processes. Industrial Electrochemical Processes: Fundamentals,Electrochemical Extraction of Metals, electrochemical synthesis of organic compounds.
4	Texts/References	L. I. Antrapov, Theoretical Electrochemistry, Mir Publishers, 1972. J. J. O'M. Bockris and A. K. N. Reddy, Modern Electrochemistry, Vol. 1 and 2, 2nd edition, Plenum Press, 1998. P. Atkins and J. de Paula, Atkins' Physical Chemistry, 8th edition, Oxford University Press, 2006. Fundamentals of Electrochemistry, 2nd ed, Bagotsky, V.S., Hoboken: Wiley-Interscience 2006.

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