Carbon binder/pasting liquid moiety

The carbonaceous moiety and a binder are mutually mixed in a ratio typically based on empirical experience [5,7,9,16,38-41,50-52,58] the optimal carbon-to-pasting liquid ratio for traditional carbon pastes usually being 1.0 g 0.5 ml. The two main components are usually hand-mixed in a mortar using a pestle with sufficient pressure, and advisably in two or three consecutive steps, when the formed mass is ripped off from the vessel wall to the bottom and homogenized... 

Half a decade ago, carbon paste had celebrated a notable jubilee 50 years of existence and extraordinarily wide applicability across the areas of electrochemistry and electroanalysis [1-3]. Herein, it can be remembered that carbon paste - that is, a thick mixture of a carbonaceous moiety with a suitable (usually liquid) binder - had originally been discovered as a certain by-product, coming from unsuccessful experimentation with carbon powder-based suspension intended to accomplish an electrode with renewable surface for anodic oxidations [2, 3]. 

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