Originated from workshop at the Lorentz Center of Leiden Univ. from Oct. 16-20, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Electrocatalysis of Oxygen Reduction in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells: A Brief History and a Critical Examination of Present Theory and Diagnostics / Shimshon Gottesfeld -- 2. Electrochemical Electron Transfer: From Marcus Theory to Electrocatalysis / E. Santos and W. Schmickler -- 3. Electrocatalysis and Catalyst Screening from Density Functional Theory Calculations / J. Rossmeisl, J. Greeley and G. S. Karlberg -- 4. First-Principles Simulation of the Active Sites and Reaction Environment in Electrocatalysis / Michael J. Janik ... [et al.] -- 5. Ab Initio Atomistic Thermodynamics for Fuel Cell Catalysis / Timo Jacob -- 6. Mechanisms of the Oxidation of Carbon Monoxide and Small Organic Molecules at Metal Electrodes / Marc T. M. Koper, Stanley C. S. Lai and Enrique Herrero -- 7. Clues for the Molecular-Level Understanding of Electrocatalysis on Single-Crystal Platinum Surfaces Modified by p-Block Adatoms / V. Climeni, N. Garcia-Araez and J. M. Feliu -- 8. Electrochemistry at Well-Characterlzed Bimetallic Surfaces / Vojislav R. Stamenkovic and Nenad M. Markovic -- 9. Recent Developments in the Electrocatalysis of the O[subscript 2] Reduction Reaction / Ye Xu, Minhua Shao, Manos Mavrikakis and Radoslav R. Adzic -- 10. Electrocatalysis at Platinum and Bimetallic Alloys / Masahiro Watanabe and Hiroyuki Uchida -- 11. Electrocatalysis for the Direct Alcohol Fuel Cell / J.-M. Leger, C. Coutanceau and C. Lamy -- 12. Broadband Sum Frequency Generation Studies of Surface Intermediates Involved in Fuel Cell Electrocatalysis / G. Q. Lu ... [et al.] -- 13. Methanol, Formaldehyde, and Formic Acid Adsorption/Oxidation on a Carbon-Supported Pt Nanoparticle Fuel Cell Catalyst: AComparative Quantitative DEMS Study / Z. Jusys and R. J. Behm -- 14. Effect of StructuraIly Well-Defined Pt Modification on the Electrochemical and Electrocatalytic Properties of Ru(0001) Electrodes / H. E. Hoster and R. J. Behm -- 15. Size Effects in Electrocatalysis of Fuel Cell Reactions on Supported Metal Nanoparticles / Frederic Maillard, Sergey Pronkin and Elena R. Savinova -- 16. Support and Particle Size Effects in Electrocatalysis / Brian E. Hayden and Jens-Peter Suchsland -- 17. Electrocatalysisfor Fuel CeIls at Enzyme-Modified Electrodes / K. A. Vincent, S. C. Barton, G. W. Canters and H. A. Heering -- 18. Metalloporphyrin Catalysts of Oxygen Reduction / Roman Boulatov.

Fuel cells represent an important alternative energy source. This work brings together world leaders in the field to provide a combination of state-of-the-art theory and computational and experimental methods, emphasizing molecular understanding of fuel cell catalysis.