Division/Committee: [PHYS: Division of Physical Chemistry]

This symposium addresses experimental and theoretical advancements in understanding structure, dynamics, and elementary processes at electrochemical interfaces. Efficient energy conversion requires functional electrodes that catalyze complex multi-electron reactions, actively binding reactants, stabilizing intermediates, and enabling inner-sphere electron transfer. However, a molecular-level understanding of these processes remains limited, hindering progress in developing more efficient energy technologies. Tackling this challenge demands integrated approaches combining operando probes and atomistic simulations to build multiscale models of interfacial phenomena. The symposium highlights recent progress in experimental techniques, theoretical models, and simulations for molecular-level insights into interfacial structure, dynamics, and reactions. Topics include interfacial fields, solvation, vibrational energy relaxation, charge and energy transfer, proton-coupled electron transfer, and electric field effects. Advances in in situ and operando spectroscopic and imaging methods will be featured, fostering collaboration between experimentalists and theoreticians to drive innovation in electrochemical energy conversion.

Yao Yang

Cornell University

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