By J. Barthel, R. Wachter, H.-J. Gores (auth.), B. E. Conway, J. O’M. Bockris (eds.)

The current quantity comprises 5 chapters overlaying components of up to date curiosity within the fields of electrolyte recommendations, the nation of solvent molecules at electrode surfaces, charged colloid interfaces, floor chemistry of oxide electrodes and electro­ chemistry, and bioelectrochemistry of cost move complexes. the 1st bankruptcy, by way of Barthel, Wachter, and Gores, covers the subject of conductance of nonaqueous professional tic and aprotic electro­ lyte strategies. This box is not just of intrinsic curiosity in itself, illustrating the real departures of ion-transport habit in natural solvents from that, extra popular, in water, however the details and huge new facts awarded during this bankruptcy may be of curiosity to these operating with nonaqueous alkali-metal batteries the place the conductivity and ion-association habit of electrolytes in a number of solvents except water is of serious significance. the second one bankruptcy is dedicated to a truly basic and ubiquitous element of electrochemistry of electrodes: the nation of solvent molecules, adsorbed and orientated, at their surfaces. The function of solvent adsorption and orientation in double-layer right­ ties, it will likely be recalled, remained poorly understood until eventually the early Sixties. This bankruptcy, through Trasatti, provides a radical account of the current nation of information of solvent orientation at electrode interfaces and of the unsuspected (until contemporary years) function it performs in homes of the double layer and in making a choice on the aptitude profile at charged steel surfaces in solution.