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Condensed Matter Physics, 2000, Vol. 3, No. 2(22), pp. 457–458
A new modern book on electrolyte
solutions
(J.Barthel, H.Krienke, W.Kunz. Physical Chemistry of
Electrolyte Solutions: Modern Aspects. Steinkopff, Darmstadt
and Springer, New York, 1998, 401 p.)
Received April 21, 2000
A new book entitled “Physical Chemistry of Electrolyte Solutions: Modern As-
pects” was recently published in the series “Topics in Physical Chemistry” edited by
Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft fur Physikalische Chemie. The authors of this book
are very well known specialists from Institut fur Physikalische und Theoretische
Chemie of Regensburg University in Germany. Among them there are the founder
of this Institute Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Josef Barthel, Prof. Dr. Hartmut Krienke and the
present director of the Institute Prof. Dr. Werner Kunz.
For the last decades much research has been devoted to the study of different
physical phenomena in Electrolyte Solutions. The progress in this study has been
specifically stimulated by new theoretical and experimental techniques traditionally
belonging to different areas of physics and chemistry. As it is noted in the preface
the purpose of the reviewed book is a survey of the state of the art of electrolyte
solutions. The authors have managed to cope with the task.
In the book there are six chapters. The first three of them present a good in-
troduction concerning the general background of electrolyte solutions. First chapter
introduces the basic features of electrolyte solutions. A classification of solvents and
electrolytes is given together with a description of the molecular architecture of
electrolyte solutions in terms of ionic association and solvation. The second chap-
ter presents the phenomenological approach to transport and relaxation phenomena
in electrolyte solutions. The properties of electrolyte solutions and their solvents
obtained from high frequency permittivity and ultrasonic measurements are also
given. The third chapter shows how the properties of electrolyte solutions can be
represented with the help of chemical models which use the association concept. It
is demonstrated that such a concept can be very efficient for understanding and
prediction of a large variety of properties.
The following three chapters offer different aspects of the statistical mechanical
theory of electrolyte solutions. The fourth chapter introduces the statistical mechan-
ical background of the electrolyte solution theory based on the calculation of spatial
correlation functions. This consideration is given in the ionic approach (McMillan
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Mayer level) in which the solvent is considered as a continuum and most attention
is focused on the behaviour of the solute ions. The application of the pair correla-
tion function concept is discussed in structural investigations of electrolyte solutions
using modern diffraction methods. The ion-molecular approach (Born-Oppenheimer
level) in the electrolyte solution theory is discussed in the fifth chapter. At this
approach in addition to the solute, the solvent molecules are explicitely considered
as discrete particles. The authors focus their attention on the explanation of the
McMillan-Mayer level parameters from Born-Oppenheimer level calculations. The
sixth chapter on the advanced modern statistical-mechanical concepts permitting
the description of the transport process beyond the approaches given in the preced-
ing chapters rounds off the modern electrolyte theory. The guiding thread of the
discussion of this chapter is the assignment of the dynamic process to the timescales
beginning with very fast particle motions and proceeding via the mesoscopic to
the macroscopic or hydrodynamic level. For this purpose the authors discuss the
information obtained by molecular dynamic simulation, by Brownian dynamics sim-
ulations, by Smoluchowski level description and finally by continuity equation ap-
proach initiated by Debye, Onsager, Fuoss and developed for the modern level by the
Rostock group of Falkenhahen, Ebeling, Kremp, Krienke and coworkers which intro-
duced the concept of the direct correlation force and developed the non-equilibrium
integral equation approach.
In the appendix the authors present a practical information needed for the de-
scription of electrolyte solutions. Among them we find physical properties and em-
pirical parameters of water and organic solvents, limiting ion conductivities of elec-
trolyte solutions, solvent and solution permittivities of electrolyte solutions, Pitzer
parameters for the osmotic pressure of nonaqueous electrolyte solutions, symbols
and abbreviations used in the book. Unfortunately authors did not give the chemi-
cal formulae for the solvents in table 7.1, which could be useful for the reader.
As a suggestion for the next edition we could advise to present in the book the
modern development of the associative concept in the electrolyte theory connected
with the application of associative integral equation approach developed for the last
decade. Unfortunately the book contains some misprints. For example the expression
for (yHS
±
)2/yHS
ip in equation (6.83 d) corresponding to the contact values of the pair
distribution function for hard spheres is not correct. As for me the authors from the
former Soviet Union are not enough cited.
Nevertheless, the reviewed book presents an excellent encyclopaedic view on the
state of the art of electrolyte solutions. As it is noted in the preface, the book is
addressed to chemical engineers looking for an introduction to this field of increasing
interest for various technologies as well as scientists working in various fields and
wishing to have an access to a broad field of modern electrolyte chemistry. The
book is written in good language with a successful combination of experimental and
theoretical materials and has no analogues in literature.
M.F.Holovko
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