Lewis Lectures 2025 - Lecture II - "Tales of the Unexpected: New Perspectives on Electrochemistry at Carbon Electrodes and Membranes"

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• Prof. Patrick Unwin, University of Warwick
• Friday 28 February 2025, 14:00-15:00
• Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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A wide variety of carbon materials are used in electrochemistry, with diverse applications that include (bio)electroanalysis and sensors, batteries and fuel cells, and membranes. The family of carbon materials is broad, spanning sp2 and sp3 materials, and includes 1D carbon nanotubes, 2D graphene (and non-carbon analogues) and 3D graphite and conducting diamond, along with amorphous carbon and various composites. The electronic properties of each of these materials are further influenced by local structure and defects, method of preparation, and (for 1-D and 2-D materials) the conducting support, the number of layers, and their arrangement. Ultimately, all of these factors can influence interfacial charge transfer and electrochemistry. In this lecture, I shall discuss our work in this area, which has established a new paradigm for structure-activity across a wide range of carbon materials and electrochemical processes. We combine high resolution electrochemical imaging data with information from other microscopy and spectroscopy techniques applied to the same area of an electrode surface, in a correlative-electrochemical microscopy approach, to produce highly resolved and unambiguous pictures of electrode activity at the nanoscale. The new models of electrochemistry offer surprises, overturn longstanding dogma, unify observations across length scales, and provide a foundation for future rational applications of carbon electrodes.

This talk is part of the Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group series.

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