New Horizons in Nanoelectrochemistry: Faraday Discussion

The fundamental steps of electrochemistry occur at the nanoscale, and therefore through studying nanoelectrochemistry we can further our knowledge of electrochemical processes. Trying to expand our insight of these steps presents significant challenges, but new approaches and technologies mean our understanding has expanded greatly in recent years.

This Faraday Discussion focuses on recent advances in nanoelectrochemistry, in which individual, transient intermediates and fast charge transfer at the nanointerface can be probed, enabling a comprehensive understanding of electrochemistry at any scale, from single entity to ensemble.

This includes approaches combining nanoelectrochemistry with other techniques, new spectroscopic tools to investigate nanoelectrochemical processes, and new theoretical models being developed to understand the dynamic and stochastic processes during nanopore electrochemical confinement.

This discussion focuses on the following four themes:

• Confined nanopore electrochemistry
• Scanning electrochemical probe microscopy
• Spectroelectrochemistry and light active processes at the Nanointerface
• Systems Nanoelectrochemistry: From single-entity to ensemble

Faraday Discussions documents a long-established series of Faraday Discussion meetings which provide a unique international forum for the exchange of views and newly acquired results in developing areas of physical chemistry, biophysical chemistry and chemical physics. The papers presented are published in the Faraday Discussion volume together with a record of the discussion contributions made at the meeting. Faraday Discussions therefore provide an important record of current international knowledge and views in the field concerned. The latest (2022) impact factor of Faraday Discussions is 3.4.