Automation in spectroelectrochemistry

Spectroelectrochemistry [99] Is a hybrid technique resulting from the association of electrochemistry with spectroscopy via the use of cells with optically transparent electrodes [100-103]. The potential of this technique lies in the possibility of Identifying both the type and the amount of the species generated In an electrochemical step. The Intrinsic characteristics of spectroelectrochemistry require the use of fast measuring systems —spectroscopic image detectors in most cases [104-107]— and the consequent acquisition of the large number of data provided by the detection system In a short time by means of an oscilloscope or, even better, of a computer also allowing the subsequent exhaustive treatment of the raw data. 

23 Block diagram of the computer-controlled spectroelectro-chemical system designed by strojek et al. (Reproduced from [110] with permission of Elsevier). 

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