This study set out to explore students' misconceptions and their inferred mental models in electrochemistry. The subjects consisted for seventy eight first-year students in National Taichung Teachers college. A reliable and validated instrument composed of seven main concepts was administered firstly to understand students' conceptual construction. The qualitative data form interviewing sixteen representative subjects was further examined to find students' misconceptions and to construct their inferred mental models. The main findings of this study are listed as follows: A. The students have many wrong concepts in current, Nernst equation, the way of conducting and the properties of materials in the salt bridge. B. After analyzing the interview data, it was found that students make a lot of mistakes as well as the concentration cells. C. From the constructed diagrams of students' mental models, it was shown that most students make mistakes in both theoretical and mathematical models, and if they should have wrong conceptual understanding of the basic concepts in those seven aspects, they will make improper connections in their inferred medntal models.