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Before treating processes at the electrochemical interface, it is useful to review a few basic properties of the adjoining phases, the electrolyte and the electrode. So here we summarize important properties of metals and semiconductors. Liquid electrolyte solutions, which are the only electrolytes we consider in this book, will be treated in the next chapter. These two chapters are not meant to serve as thorough introductions into the physical chemistry of condensed phases, but present the minimum that a well-educated electrochemist should known about solids and solutions.
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The latter fact may seem a little surprizing. The actual proof is not simple, but, naively speaking, the electrons cannot move because they have nowhere to go.
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Schmickler, W., Santos, E. (2010). Metal and semiconductor electrodes. In: Interfacial Electrochemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04937-8_2
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