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08/5/2009 -
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (2006)
by Mark E. Orazem and Bernard Tribollet
ISBN: 978-0470041406. John Wiley & Sons, New York. Hardcover. 526 pages. $99.95.
The book Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy is a great piece of work that is directed towards audiences in multifarious fields such as corrosion phenomena, biomedical applications, semiconductors, batteries, fuel cells, and electrochemical capacitors. It is very well structured into six parts and an additional section of reference material at the end.
The book begins with a brief historical background on electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and the roads taken to where we are now in terms of formulation and understanding problems and experiments based on it. The first section introduces the basic materials starting with mathematical concepts of importance in electrochemistry and specifically in electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. It starts with complex variables, differential equations and statistics. This is followed by some introductory material on electrical circuits. Finally, the authors very aptly guide the reader into electrochemistry concepts. The electrochemistry introduction has material for the industry engineer looking to brush-up on some basic electrochemistry, for an undergraduate student looking for some extra summarized information or for the seasoned electrochemist as a reference.
With the electrochemical background the authors have given an introduction on electrochemical instrumentation. One of the things lacking in this chapter is the actual physical description of how the instrumentation works when a cell is assembled for an impedance test. A reader who is interested in learning all that is needed to develop a quick understanding of electrochemistry and methods associated with can just concentrate on section 1 of this book.
In subsequent sections, the authors delve at first into experimental methods, analysis techniques and cell design for electrochemical experiments. Equivalent circuit analogs for process models and kinetic models are next. The mathematical treatment of general diffusion impedance and in relation to semi conducting systems is described next. Generalized transfer function relations and electro-hydrodynamic phenomena with examples and problem set is next.
Section 4 and 5 deal with representation of impedance data and methods to analyze the complex data from impedance experiments. Section 6 is the whole book coming together and gives two example applications. Without giving out too much of what’s inside, the first application is regarding the impedance response of a schottky diode at different temperatures and the next one is the analysis of inferences based on impedance data from PEM fuel cells. The reference materials in section 7 covers complex integration. A huge reference list that dates back to 1855 (Adolf Fick’s work on diffusion) follows the reference section.
This book addresses a large audience starting from junior/senior level student to the practitioner who needs to understand electrochemical impedance spectroscopy theory and techniques in detail. The figures are very well represented in this book. The examples in each of the chapters try to emphasize the learning utilizing the concepts for problem solving. The equations are well described with a key of all variables at the end of the book. A cool feature of this book throughout the chapters are remember points after many sections to emphasize the important points and learning from the particular section. Another feature worth noting is the list of examples with a brief description to serve as a quick reference in Appendix C.
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