ABSTRACT
Development of electrochemical kinetics owed more to the researches of Central and Eastern Europe. The subject of electrochemistry is concerned with the study and exploitation of the transference of electrical charges across interfaces and through solution. Electrochemistry is concerned with charges and with their movement and transfer from one medium to another. The ultimate unit of charge is that carried by the electron; electrons are important in electrochemistry and their functions here are similar to some of those which they exhibit in related disciplines more usually regarded as the province of physics. Electrodics, concerned with electrode processes, and ionics, concerned with the behaviour of ions in solution, constitute much of the fabric ofelectrochemistry. The extremely large field gradients at electrode/solution interfaces caused by imposed potential differences induce gross distortions in the positions which electrons may occupy in solute ions and in electrodes.
