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The first analytical instruments adapted for use in in-process measurements were electrochemical pH meters used as immersion probes. On-line potentiometric analysers can give continuous, real-time results for various analytes in a process. They are rugged ISEs that are not affected by the colour or turbidity of the process stream. Arrays of potentiometric sensors can even be used in fermentation broths. The sample can be taken into a loop, passed through a filter to protect the ISE surface and measnred. A feedback mechanism allows control of other parameters in order to keep the process in check. Applications 

Owing to their high separation efficiency, the potential for using micellar electro-kinetic chromatography and capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE)  

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Galus Z 1994 Fundamentals of Electrochemical Analysis (Chichester Ellis Florwood/Polish Scientific Publishers... 

Gal Gains, Z. Fundamentals of Electrochemical Analysis, 2nd edition, Chichester Ellis Norwood, 1994. 

For the in situ characterization of modified electrodes, the method of choice is electrochemical analysis by cyclic voltammetry, ac voltammetry, chronoamperometry or chronocoulometry, or rotating disk voltametry. Cyclic voltammograms are easy to interpret from a qualitative point of view (Fig, 1). The other methods are less direct but they can yield quantitative data more readily. 

Fig. 15. Waveforms used for in vivo electrochemical analysis. A = chronoamperometry, B = double chronoamperometry (response = SI — S2), C = linear sweep, D = differential pulse (response = S2 — SI), S = sample window...

Differential pulse voltammetry has been widely used for in vivo electrochemical analysis This technique combines the linear sweep and pulsed potential... 

The problem of selectivity is the most serious drawback to in vivo electrochemical analysis. Many compounds of neurochemical interest oxidize at very similar potentials. While this problem can be overcome somewhat by use of differential waveforms (see Sect. 3.2), many important compounds cannot be resolvai voltammetrically. It is generally not possible to distinguish between dopamine and its metabolite 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) or l tween 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) and 5-hydroxyindolacetic acid (5-HIAA). Of even more serious concern, ascorbic acid oxidizes at the same potential as dopamine and uric acid oxidizes at the same potential as 5-HT, both of these interferences are present in millimolar concentrations... 

The interface separating two immiscible electrolyte solutions, e.g., one aqueous and the other based on a polar organic solvent, may be reversible with respect to one or many ions simultaneously, and also to electrons. Works by Nernst constitute a fundamental contribution to the electrochemical analysis of the phase equilibrium between two immiscible electrolyte solutions [1-3]. According to these works, in the above system electrical potentials originate from the difference of distribution coefficients of ions of the electrolyte present in the both phases. 

The interpretation of phenomenological electron-transfer kinetics in terms of fundamental models based on transition state theory [1,3-6,10] has been hindered by our primitive understanding of the interfacial structure and potential distribution across ITIES. The structure of ITIES was initially studied by electrochemical and thermodynamic analyses, and more recently by computer simulations and interfacial spectroscopy. Classical electrochemical analysis based on differential capacitance and surface tension measurements has been extensively discussed in the literature [11-18]. The picture that emerged from... 

Principles and Characteristics A substantial percentage of chemical analyses are based on electrochemistry, although this is less evident for polymer/additive analysis. In its application to analytical chemistry, electrochemistry involves the measurement of some electrical property in relation to the concentration of a particular chemical species. The electrical properties that are most commonly measured are potential or voltage, current, resistance or conductance charge or capacity, or combinations of these. Often, a material conversion is involved and therefore so are separation processes, which take place when electrons participate on the surface of electrodes, such as in polarography. Electrochemical analysis also comprises currentless methods, such as potentiometry, including the use of ion-selective electrodes. 

I have tried to make the book self-contained, apart from the assumption that the reader has an adequate knowledge of basic physical chemistry and will consult the selected bibliography when necessary. Moreover, having kept practice constantly in mind, I hope I have succeeded in building a welcome bridge between electroanalytical chemistry as a science and electrochemical analysis as an art. 

B. Breyer and H. H. Bauer, Alternating Current Polarography and Tensammetry, Interscience, New York, 1963 see also Z. Galus, Fundamentals of Electrochemical Analysis, Ellis Horwood, Chichester, 1976, p. 503-504, and H. Jehring, J. Electroanal. Chem., 20 (1969) 33 and 21 (1969) 77. 

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) of electrodes was first applied to the oxidation of noble metal electrodes. Kim and Winograd investigated in 1971 the electrochemical formation of anodic oxides on Pt [10] and later on Au electrodes [60]. The electrochemical parameters of oxide formation on these noble metal electrodes were well characterized and enabled a direct correlation between ex situ XPS and in situ electrochemical analysis. 

In 1971 Mizushina (M9) reviewed the limiting-current method with particular emphasis upon shear-stress and fluid-velocity measurements. Mass-transfer measurements, that is, limiting-current measurements in the original more restricted sense, are documented fairly extensively. The electrochemical analysis of limiting-current measurements is touched upon, but not elaborated. 

Traditionally, the electrochemical analysis of thin layers of electrodeposited nonequilibrium alloys has simply involved either galvanostatic or potentiostatic dissolution of the electrodeposit under conditions where passivation and/or replacement reactions can be avoided [194, 195]. A technique based on ALSY at a RDE has also become popular [196], To apply this technique, a thin layer (a 10 pm) of the alloy of interest is deposited on a suitable electrode in a solution containing the reducible ions of the alloy components. The plated electrode is then removed to a cell containing an electrolyte solution that is devoid of ions that can be reduced at the initial potential of the experiment, and the complete electrodeposit is anodically dissolved from the electrode surface using slow scan ALSV while the electrode is rotated. 

Bourbonnais R, Leech D, Paice MG (1998) Electrochemical analysis of the interaction of laccase with lignin model compounds. Biochim Biophys Acta 1379 381-390... 

Cyclic voltammetry is generally considered to be of limited use in ultratrace electrochemical analysis. This is because the high double layercharging currents observed at a macroelectrode make the signal-to-back-ground ratio low. The voltammograms in Eig. 9B clearly show that at the NEEs, cyclic voltammetry can be a very powerful electroanalytical technique. There is, however, a caveat. Because the NEEs are more sensitive to electron transfer kinetics, the enhancement in detection limit that is, in principle, possible could be lost for couples with low values of the heterogeneous rate constant. This is because one effect of slow electron transfer kinetics at the NEE is to lower the measured Faradaic currents (e.g.. Fig. 8). 

Following on from SAQ 5.8, why would anyone employ a clay-modified electrode for an electrochemical analysis ... 

Galus, Z., Fundamentals of Electrochemical Analysis, 2nd Edn, Ellis Horwood, Chichester, 1994. Don t be fooled by the title fundamentals here means as derived from first principles , rather than a book for beginners. An unashamedly mathematical read, and not for the faint-hearted. Although out of print now, it must still be considered the ultimate book on the subject. Essentially for postgraduates with great self-confidence. 

Gains Z (1994) Fundamentals of electrochemical analysis. Ellis Horwood, New York, Polish Scientific Publishers PWN, Warsaw... 

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