Nanoscale Electrochemistry of Molecular Contacts

Professor Paulo R. Bueno holds an MBA and Ph.D. in Theoretical Physical Chemistry. He is a research Director and Head of the Physical Chemistry Department at São Paulo State University in Brazil. His main academic interests are on applications of electric and electrochemical spectroscopic methods aiming at understanding the physical and chemistry fundaments related to electron transfer and energy storage at the nanoscale. He is a Research Fellow Director of the Royal Society of Chemistry and invited member of the American Chemical Society. Professor Bueno is also member of other scientific societies, such as the Electrochemical Society of Chemistry, the International Society of Electrochemistry and the Materials Research Society.

Introduction.- Mesoscopic physics and time-dependent measurements.-Admittance, conductance and electrochemical capacitive ensembles at zero temperature approximation.- Admittance, conductance and electrochemical capacitive ensembles at finite temperature.- State-of-the-art of nanoscale electrochemistry.- Absence of ionic diffusion in electrochemistry process.- Charge relaxation and chemical capacitance.- Electron transfer rate and electrochemical capacitance.- Frequency dependence and field effect.- Nanoscale Electrochemical Transistor.- Thermal broadening.- Experimentally envisaging Debye and Thomas-Fermi screenings.- Solvent environment effect and spreading of electronic density of states.- Energy Transducer and Sensing.- Quantum Conductance of DNA wires.- Super-capacitance of graphene layers.- Final Remarks and conclusions.