Underpotential Deposition: From Fundamentals and Theory to Applications at the Nanoscale

O. A. OVIEDO; L. REINAUDI; S. GARCÍA; E.P.M. LEIVA

Springer

Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2016 p. 355

978-3319243924

Preface of EditorThere is no need to stress the importance of underpotential deposition (upd) forelectrochemistry, surface science, and physics, both with respect to fundamentaland applied studies, as upd belongs to the most widely studied and applied phenomenain electrochemical systems. Thus, it was very surprising that there did notexist a single monographic treatment of upd in the world literature. Overviews wereonly available in review papers, and special aspects of upd were covered in somebooks on metal deposition and electrocatalysis, to name but two. Rather shorttreatments of upd are available in textbooks, but a comprehensive description ofthe various experimental and theoretical aspects of upd and of its use for tuningelectrochemical reactions was missing. I am very happy that four authors fromArgentina, Ezequiel Pedro Marcos Leiva (Cordoba), Silvana Graciela Garcia(Bahıa Blanca), Oscar Alejandro Oviedo (Cordoba), and Luis Reinaudi (Cordoba),have accepted the request to write a monograph on underpotential deposition. Theauthors are internationally known for their contributions to the present state ofunderstanding upd, and I am sure that this monograph will acquire the state of aclassic book which every researcher will study and refer to when entering electrochemical deposition, electrocatalysis, or fundamental and applied surface science.Greifswald, GermanyJuly 2015Fritz Scholz