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Electrochemical Processing of Materials

Subjects: Engineering · Science

Art: Anaconda Company, Reverberatory roasting furnace, 1897 · Public domain

Instructor: Prof. Donald Sadoway
Term: Spring 2001
Level: Graduate
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Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 3.53 Electrochemical Processing of Materials, Spring 2001, Prof. Donald Sadoway — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.

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Electrochemical Processing of Materials

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Lecture 1: Thermodynamic and transport properties of electrolytes – aqueous and molten

Lecture 2: Solution models: Debye-Hückel (aqueous), Temkin (molten salts)

Lecture 3: Electrode potentials (the underlying physics, i.e., electron excess or electron deficiency on the electrode)

Lecture 4: Emf series (aqueous and molten salts)

Lecture 5: Reference electrodes (thermodynamics [establishing the voltage value] and kinetics [their iE characteristic])

Lecture 6: (cont.)

Lecture 7: Electrode-electrolyte interface, nature of the double layer

Lecture 8: Kinetics of electrode processes, competition between processes involving mass transport and interfacial processes such as charge transfer at the electrode/electrolyte interface

Lecture 9: (cont.)

Lecture 10: Laboratory techniques to determine rate and mechanism: controlled E, controlled i, a.c. methods, i.e., a.c. voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, including underlying electrical engineering – construction of the equivalent circuit

Lecture 11: (cont.)

Lecture 12: Phasors and impedance plots in the complex plane – data interpretation for process optimization, on-line control

Lecture 13: Stationary and rotating electrodes

Lecture 14: Test 1

Lecture 15: Winning, refining, plating, synthesis

Lecture 16: Current efficiency, voltage efficiency, power efficiency, energy balances

Lecture 17: Materials issues and environmental issues

Lecture 18: Case studies on Hall cell electrolysis to produce aluminum and electrolytic production of magnesium by both the Dow process and the I.G. Farben process

Lecture 19: Contemporary industrial practice – includes consideration of environmental issues

Lecture 20: Batteries & fuel cells.

Lecture 21: (cont.)

Lecture 22: Test 2