Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: Due to the ubiquity of the electrical potential at the small scale, the electrochemical engineering community is well placed for leading and contributing to current and future technology developments. This is an opportune time to consolidate and enhance the status and role of electrochemistry and electrochemical engineering in chemical and other engineering, chemistry, and materials science curricula and departments across the country. Some of the unresolved issues and research topics in the energy area relevant for electrochemical engineers are energy conversion, electrodeposition, and energy storage. Computational methods such as quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics, kinetics Monte Carlo, meso-scale and continuum, depending on the time and length scale are available. However, some care should be taken not to overemphasize advanced multiscale simulation in introductory electrochemical engineering courses. It is recommended to use commercial software platforms to teach and analyze electrochemical systems, but at the same time the instructors are recommended to provide at least examples of when these software packages can fail and alert the students to be aware of potential pitfalls while using the "black box" approach to analyze an electrochemical system.
DOI: 10.1149/2.f05102if
Authors: Venkat R. Subramanian, Richard D. Braatz
Language: English
Subfield: Media Technology
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: Division of Graduate Education
OpenAlex ID: W2188181050