A collection of active essays, ongoing thoughts, and academic notes on physical electrochemistry, thermodynamics, and life.
Why Butler–Volmer, its resistance-corrected cousins, and Marcus–Hush–Chidsey/CIET kinetics all agree near equilibrium, diverge only where the data cannot yet be trusted, and what breaking that degeneracy would require.
Read post →On individual ion activities, the Bates–Guggenheim convention, chemical capacitance, and why the questions we ask about battery kinetics might be arriving one step too early.
Read post →Rethinking electrochemical voltage through the Gibbs–Guggenheim principle and discovering why a voltmeter measures thermodynamics, not electrostatic potentials.
Read post →Reflecting on our viewpoint paper in ACS Energy Letters and exploring why redox-potential shifts render transient kinetics measurements model-dependent.
Read post →Unraveling the fundamental distinctions between Electrocatalysis and Battery Science through the lens of Chemical Capacitance.
Read post →Reflections on the limitations of macroscopic screening and my deliberate pivot towards fundamental electrochemical and physical frameworks.
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