Summarizes the principle of electrochemistry in its different applications towards our understanding of electrolytes, the processes on electrodes & the structure & reactivity on membranes.

The book provides balanced information on the biology, chemistry and physics of membrane properties and their specific functions in the flow of material, transduction of energy and transformation of signals. Up-to-date specific data on these various properties and functions are contained in the book, thus making it a reference text on such subjects as membrane composition, membrane structure, all known systems of transport, all different mechanisms of energy transduction and on selected types of signal transformation.

The aim of this book is not to provide yet another research monograph but to give advanced undergraduates in physical chemistry an introduction to the principles of electrochemistry. Each chapter ends with a bibliographic section, to enable the reader to follow up areas of particular interest or application.

Ion-selective electrodes are widely used for non-destructive, rapid, sensitive and precise determination of many ions in a great variety of media and therefore, provide a powerful analytic tool. Since the appearance of the first edition of Professor Koryta's book in 1975 progress in the whole field of ion-selective electrodes has been rapid and a vast amount of diverse data has appeared. In this edition, based on the literature to mid-1981, a compact and unified treatment of the theory of ion-selective electrodes is presented along with an updated account of their analytical, biomedical and physicochemical applications. The book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate chemists, biophysicists, physiologists, biochemists and environmental scientists, as well as research workers in both universities and industry.