Basic Electrochemistry for Biotechnology (Paperback)

Introduction and motivation

- What is microbial electrochemistry about?
- Why this book?
- A brief overview on microbial electrochemical technologies.

Fundamentals, definitions and theory

- Terms and definitions in electrochemistry
- Electrochemical cells
- Electrodes and electrode reactions
--Microbial extracellular electron transfer
--Electrochemical reversibility
- Reference electrodes
- Thermodynamics of electrode reactions
-- What is the formal potential?
- Electrochemical losses
- Kinetics of electrode reactions
- Internal resistance

Practical considerations
- Setting up a bioelectrochemical cell
- Potentiostats, loads and circuitry

Electrochemical measurements
- How to select a suitable method?
- Linear sweep voltammetry
- Polarization curves
- Power curves
- Cyclic voltammetry
- Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
- The potential and (present-day) limits of data analysis of electrochemical methods applied to MET

Further analysis
- Brief intro and further reading to microbial analysis
- Brief intro and further reading to modelling