Electrochemistry is undergoing a renaissance. It is unquestionably the science at the centre of energy technologies such as batteries, fuel cells and solar cells, and it plays a key role in widely used and emerging sensing and diagnostic platforms. These, and other, areas of electrochemistry are greatly impacted by nanomaterials and nanoscale systems. Single entity electrochemistry studies provide a new way of viewing electrochemical processes at the nanoscale, and provide a bottom-up approach for understanding electrochemical processes in complex systems.
Single entity electrochemistry spans a wide range of topics, from electrocatalysis and the properties of functional materials, to bioanalysis (e.g., single cell studies and DNA analysis with nanopores), but many of the underlying concepts, principles and experimental/theoretical challenges are common. Key strategic challenges include the detection and analysis of small (pA - fA), and transient, current signals and large data sets. The interpretation of single entity electrochemistry experiments also requires a move away from continuum models for mass transport and reactivity, coupled with more detailed descriptions of interfacial properties (charge density, double layer, structure, composition, defects etc.) at the nanoscale.
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