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Preface

The current volume of this series continues to exhibit the main charac-
teristic of the previous volumes: It covers the frontier in several widely
differing sections of the huge area of modern electrochemistry.
Thus, the first chapter touches on an aspect of electrochemistry for
which the author has become justly well known: application of the Wagner
and Traud theorem of 1938 according to which electrochemical systems
may function on a single electrode.= In the next chapter, the article by
Koczorowi treats a seldom -visited but truly fundamental area, that of
voltaic measurements at liquid interfaces.=
Chapter 3 is bound to attract the attention of the clean energy engineer
because it concerns the ultimate fuel cell—one that uses the oxidation of
an organic fuel directly without having to go through a reforming stage to
produce the hydrogen fuel for the fuel cell. Success here would have a
very significant effect upon the burgeoning enterprise of fuel cell-powered
cars.
We are particularly pleased to welcome the article by 8ada on
dynamic processes in molten salts because it represents the culmination
of the efforts of Professor Chemla at the Sorbonne to arrange such an
article.
Finally, it is stimulating to read the article by Little and Wagner
because of the prominence attached to microbial action in the electro-
chemistry of the 1990s and because it has hitherto been difficult to find
an electrochemically oriented presentation of this topic.

J. O’M. Bockris
Molecular Green Technology
Collegð Station, Texas
B. E. Conway
University of Ottawr
Ottawa, Ontario, Canadr
Ralph E. White
University of South Carolinr
Columbia, South Carolinr

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