Modeling Electrochemical Reaction Rates at Fluid-Solid Interfaces

A detailed understanding of electrochemical reaction rates at interfaces between liquid electrolytes and a variety of solid electrodes is crucial in the engineering of next-generation electrochemical devices. In addition, it is becoming increasingly important to understand this behavior at higher overpotentials (where deviations from standard approaches such as Butler-Volmer are more likely) for applications such as fast charging of EV batteries. In this talk, I will introduce an extension to Marcus-Hush-Chidsey kinetics that explicitly accounts for the density of states of the electrode, and introduce several applications of it in a variety of systems, including twisted graphene structures.