The scientific school of Quantum electrochemistry began to form in the 1960s under

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. Generally speaking, the field comprises the notions arising in

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quantum mechanics Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics that provides a description of the physical properties of nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles. It is the foundation of all quantum physics including quantum chemistr ...

, and

electrochemistry Electrochemistry is the branch of physical chemistry concerned with the relationship between electrical potential difference, as a measurable and quantitative phenomenon, and identifiable chemical change, with the potential difference as an outco ...

; and so is studied by a very large array of different professional researchers. The fields they reside in include,

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electrical Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described ...

and

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ing, chemistry and

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. More specifically, quantum electrochemistry is the application of

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tools such as

density functional theory Density-functional theory (DFT) is a computational quantum mechanical modelling method used in physics, chemistry and materials science to investigate the electronic structure (or nuclear structure) (principally the ground state) of many-body ...

to the study of electrochemical processes, including electron transfer at electrodes. It also includes Marcus theory and quantum rate theory, the latter being a method of describing electrochemistry using first principle quantum mechanics and concepts of conductance quantum and quantum capacitance.

History and contributors

The first development of "quantum electrochemistry" is somewhat difficult to pin down. This is not very surprising, since the development of

to chemistry can be summarized as the application of quantum wave theory models to atoms and molecules. This being the case,

, which is particularly concerned with the

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s of some particular system, is already, by its nature, tied into the quantum mechanical model of the

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in quantum chemistry. There were proponents of quantum electrochemistry, who applied quantum mechanics to electrochemistry with unusual zeal, clarity and precision. Among them were

and his co-workers. They developed one of the early quantum mechanical models for proton transfer reactions in chemical systems. Dogonadze is a particularly celebrated promoter of quantum electrochemistry, and is also credited with forming an international summer school of quantum electrochemistry centered in

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. He was a main author of the ''Quantum-Mechanical Theory of Kinetics of the Elementary Act of Chemical, Electrochemical and Biochemical Processes in Polar Liquids''. Another important contributor is Rudolph A. Marcus, who won the

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in 1992 for his ''Theory of Electron Transfer Reactions in Chemical Systems''. Recently, Marcus theory has been shown to be part of a more general concept associated with the quantum rate theory, a theory that predicts the rate of electron transfer (electrochemistry being a particular case) using the concepts of conductance quantum and quantum capacitance.

References

* R.R. Dogonadze, "Theory of Molecular Electrode Kinetics", in: N.S. Hush (Ed.), ''Reactions of Molecules at Electrodes'', Interscience Pub., London, 1971, pp. 135-227 * R.R. Dogonadze and Z.D. Urushadze, "Semi-classical Method of Calculation of Rates of Chemical Reactions".- '' J.Electroanal. Chem.'', 32, 1971, pp. 235-245 * R.P. Bell, "The Proton in Chemistry", Chapman and Hall, London-New York, 1973 * N.R. Kestner, J. Logan and J. Jortner, "Thermal Electron Transfer Reactions in Polar Solvents".- ''J.Phys. Chem.'', 78, 1974, pp. 2148-2166 * R.R. Dogonadze, A.M. Kuznetsov, M.G. Zaqaraya and J. Ulstrup, "A Quantum Theory of Low-Temperature Chemical and Biological Rate Processes", in: B. Chance, R.A. Marcus, D. DeVault, H. Frauenfelder, J.R. Schrieffer and N. Sutin (Eds.), ''Tunneling in Biological Systems'', Academic Press, New York, 1979, pp. 145-171 * R.P. Bell, "The Tunneling Effect in Chemistry", Chapman and Hall, London-New York, 1980 * R.R. Dogonadze and A.M. Kuznetsov, "Quantum Electrochemical Kinetics: Continuum Theory", in: B.E. Conway, J.O'M. Bockris and E. Yeager (Eds.), ''Comprehensive Treatise of Electrochemistry'', Vol. 7, Plenum Press, New York, 1983, pp. 1-40 * "Electrodynamics and Quantum Phenomena at Interfaces" (Proceedings of the International Conference, Telavi,

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, October 1-6, 1984), Publishing House "Metsniereba", Tbilisi, 1986, 558 pp. (in English) * J.O'M. Bockris, Shahed U.M. Khan, "Quantum Electrochemistry", Plenum Press, New York, 1979, 538 pp. () * "Standard bearer of Quantum Electrochemistry" (''"Flagman Kvantovoy Elektrokhimii"''). About Professor Revaz R. Dogonadze. Compiled by Prof. Z.D. Urushadze, Publishing House of the

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, Tbilisi, 1991, 140 pp. (In Russian) * M. Bixon and J. Jortner, "Electron Transfer. From Isolated Molecules to Biomolecules".- ''Adv. in Chem. Physics'', 106, 1999, pp. 35-203 * "Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry", Vol. 2, Interfacial Kinetics and Mass Transport, Wiley Publishers, 2003, 563 pp. ({{ISBN, 3-527-30394-4). * Revaz Dogonadze Memorial Issue of the '' Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry and Interfacial Electrochemistry'', vol. 204, Lausanne, 1986.

External links

Nobel Lecture of Rudolph A. Marcus, 1992

International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE)

Electrochemistry

History and contributors

See also

References

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