This volume presents plenary lectures and invited papers that Were delivered during the Fourth Australian Conference on Electro chemistry held at The Flinders University of South Australia, 16-20th February 1976. EZeat~oahemi8try fo~ a Futu~e Soaiety was selected as the Conference theme since the organising committee were mindful of the rapid change in technological perspective which the world now faces. We no longer have a prospect of uncontrolled spontaneous expansion and change as the result of technological enterprise. Rather, we face the task of attempting to reach a state of very restricted growth. In the next few decades special accent must be placed on minimizing pollution and maximizing the efficient utilization of all available energy sources. With this in mind, the Conference organisers considered that a conventional electrochemistry symposium, with its divisions into the various academic aspects, would be less relevant than a meeting devoted to aspects of electrochemistry which may underlie parts of the new and necessary technology for the future state of affairs. What has actually been achieved by the Conference organisers is a balance between the ideals expressed and the resulting response from electrochemists. This response has a bias which reflects the dominance of certain resources, e.g. metallic minerals, within Australia. Consequently, the papers included in T~ends in EZeat~o ahemist~ cover subjects which are of both global and local concern.

InhaltsangabeI. Conference Theme.- Electrochemistry for a Future Society.- II. The Bruno Breyer Memorial Lecture.- F. T. Bacon. The Bruno Breyer Memorial Medal list 1976.- The Development and Practical Application of Fuel Cells.- III. Electrochemistry and Energy Developments.- Electrochemistry in the Solar Economy.- Competing Pathways towards Large Scale Hydrogen Production.- Power Sources and Some Basic Problems in Electrocrystallisation and Passivity.- Sodium-Sulphur Battery Research.- Electrochemical Injection of Ions into Non-stoichiometric Electrodes.- IV. Surface and Colloid Electrochemistry.- The Electrical Double Layer on Silver Iodide.- Preparation and Properties of Monodispersed Metal Hydrous Oxide Latices.- Electrochemical Control of the Flow Behaviour of Coagulated Colloidal Sols.- V. Advances in Electrochemical Techniques.- New Spectroscopic Methods for Electrochemical Research.- The Application of Auger Electron Spectroscopy to the Study of Electrode Surfaces.- Application of Anodic Stripping Voltammetry to Trace Metal Analysis.- Improved Instrumentation and Procedures for Interpreting Galvanostatic Potential-Time Transients.- VI. Mineral Sulphide Electrochemistry.- Electrochemistry of Sulphide Minerals.- Oxygen Reduction on Sulphide Minerals.- The Kinetics and Mechanisms of the Non-Oxidative Dissolution of Metal Sulphides.- Combined Electrochemical and Photovoltaic Studies of the Galena-Electrolyte Interface.- VII. Electrochemistry and Mettalurgy.- Corrosion - an Anticorrosion Viewpoint.- The Effect of Oxide Films on Cementation Reactions.- Electrowinning Copper from Chloride Solutions.- Improvements to the Hall-Heroult Process for Aluminium Electrowinning.- Author Index.