Presented by Dr. Rohan Akolkar, a new 5-day workshop on electrochemistry will be sponsored by the Electronics Design Center and will be held in early summer 2025 on the campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.  

The syllabus for the course will include:

1. Introduction to Electrochemical Engineering

2. Electrochemical Thermodynamics

3. Faraday’s law of Electrolysis

4. Ionic Electrolytes, and Their Behavior under Electric Fields

5. Current Density at Electrodes and in Electrolytes

6. Overpotentials: Activation, Ohmic, Concentration / Mass Transport

7. Current Distribution in Electrochemical Cells: Primary, Secondary, Wagner Number

8. Current Distribution under Mass Transport Control

9. Analysis of Polarization Behavior in Electrochemical Systems

10. Multiple Electrode Reactions: Gas Co-evolution; Corrosion, Mixed Potential Theory

11. Transients in Electrochemical Systems: Cottrell and Sand Equation

12. Theory and Practice of Cyclic Voltammetry

13. Numerical Modeling of Electrochemical Systems

14. Lab Session: TBD