Nanoscale Electrochemistry of Molecular Contacts

• Main Author: Bueno, Paulo Roberto (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology,
• Subjects: Electrochemistry.; Thermodynamics.; Nanotechnology.

This book discusses the merging of nanoscale electronics and electrochemistry and how this can potentially modernize the way electronic devices are currently engineered or constructed. It introduces the electrochemical capacitance as a fundamental missing concept that solves the puzzle between molec...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Mesoscopic physics and time-dependent measurements.-Admittance, conductance and electrochemical capacitive ensembles at zero temperature approximation
• Admittance, conductance and electrochemical capacitive ensembles at finite temperature
• State-of-the-art of nanoscale electrochemistry
• Absence of ionic diffusion in electrochemistry process
• Charge relaxation and chemical capacitance
• Electron transfer rate and electrochemical capacitance
• Frequency dependence and field effect
• Nanoscale Electrochemical Transistor
• Thermal broadening
• Experimentally envisaging Debye and Thomas-Fermi screenings
• Solvent environment effect and spreading of electronic density of states
• Energy Transducer and Sensing
• Quantum Conductance of DNA wires
• Super-capacitance of graphene layers
• Final Remarks and conclusions.