Theoretical Treatment and Modeling of the Double Layer at Electrode Interfaces

Abstract

In order to provide a fundamental basis for understanding the properties and behavior of double-layer types of capacitor devices, this chapter gives a broad account of the theoretical treatments of the structure and capacitance of the double layer at electrode interfaces. This topic has been one of major activity and interest in electrochemistry for about a hundred years, and has now found substantial technological applications. In 1997, the Electrochemical Society Sponsored a major symposium on the double-layer to recognize the 50th anniversary of Grahame’s seminal paper1 in Chemical Reviews (1947).