Table of contents : PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION......Page 8 PREFACE......Page 12 CONTENTS......Page 18 NOMENCLATURE......Page 34 INDEX......Page 40 1.1. A STATE OF EXCITEMENT......Page 56 1.2. TWO KINDS OF ELECTROCHEMISTRY......Page 58 1.3. SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF ELECTRODICS......Page 60 1.4. PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS AND SURFACES......Page 61 1.5. THE RELATION OF ELECTROCHEMISTRY TO OTHER SCIENCES......Page 67 1.6. THE FRONTIER IN IONICS: NONAQUEOUS SOLUTIONS......Page 71 1.7. A NEW WORLD OF RICH VARIETY: ROOM-TEMPERATURE MOLTEN SALTS......Page 74 1.8. ELECTROCHEMICAL DETERMINATION OF RADICAL INTERMEDIATES BY MEANS OF INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY......Page 75 1.9. RELAY STATIONS PLACED INSIDE PROTEINS CAN CARRY AN ELECTRIC CURRENT......Page 77 1.10. SPECULATIVE ELECTROCHEMICAL APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING METABOLISM......Page 79 1.11. THE ELECTROCHEMISTRY OF CLEANER ENVIRONMENTS......Page 80 1.12. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ELECTROCHEMISTRY, AND TIME......Page 82 Further Reading......Page 87 2.1. INTRODUCTION......Page 90 2.2. BREADTH OF SOLVATION AS A FIELD......Page 92 2.3. A LOOK AT SOME APPROACHES TO SOLVATION DEVELOPED MAINLY AFTER 1980......Page 94 2.4. STRUCTURE OF THE MOST COMMON SOLVENT, WATER......Page 96 2.5. TOOLS FOR INVESTIGATING SOLVATION......Page 105 2.6. PARTIAL MOLAR VOLUMES OF IONS IN SOLUTION......Page 110 2.7. COMPRESSIBILITY AND VIBRATION POTENTIAL APPROACH TO SOLVATION NUMBERS OF ELECTROLYTES......Page 113 2.8. TOTAL SOLVATION NUMBERS OF IONS IN ELECTROLYTES......Page 116 2.9. SOLVATION NUMBERS AT HIGH CONCENTRATIONS......Page 123 2.10. TRANSPORT......Page 125 2.11. SPECTROSCOPIC APPROACHES TO OBTAINING INFORMATION ON STRUCTURES NEAR AN ION......Page 127 Further Reading......Page 141 2.12. DIELECTRIC EFFECTS......Page 142 2.13. IONIC HYDRATION IN THE GAS PHASE......Page 149 2.14. INDIVIDUAL IONIC PROPERTIES......Page 153 2.15. INDIVIDUAL HEAT OF HYDRATION OF THE PROTON......Page 154 2.16. MORE ON SOLVATION NUMBERS......Page 194 2.17. COMPUTER-SIMULATION APPROACHES TO IONIC SOLVATION......Page 208 2.18. COMPUTATION OF ION–WATER CLUSTERS IN THE GAS PHASE......Page 212 2.19. SOLVENT DYNAMIC SIMULATIONS FOR AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS......Page 218 2.20. INTERACTIONS OF IONS WITH NONELECTROLYTES IN SOLUTION......Page 221 2.21. DIELECTRIC BREAKDOWN OF WATER......Page 234 2.22. ELECTROSTRICTION......Page 240 2.23. HYDRATION OF POLYIONS......Page 245 2.24. HYDRATION IN BIOPHYSICS......Page 247 2.25. WATER IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS......Page 252 2.26. SOME DIRECTIONS OF FUTURE RESEARCH IN ION–SOLVENT INTERACTIONS......Page 254 2.27. OVERVIEW OF IONIC SOLVATION AND ITS FUNCTIONS......Page 256 APPENDIX 2.1. THE BORN EQUATION......Page 259 APPENDIX 2.2. INTERACTION BETWEEN AN ION AND A DIPOLE......Page 262 APPENDIX 2.3. INTERACTION BETWEEN AN ION AND A WATER QUADRUPOLE......Page 264 EXERCISES......Page 268 PROBLEMS......Page 272 MICRO RESEARCH PROBLEMS......Page 279 CHAPTER 3 ION–ION INTERACTIONS......Page 280 CHAPTER 4 ION TRANSPORT IN SOLUTIONS......Page 416 CHAPTER 5 IONIC LIQUIDS......Page 656