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Chrono amperom etry, Chronopotentiometry, Chronopolarography and Oscillographic Pol orography. A "steady state is said to be reached when the current-potential curve of a soln examined by the usual electrochemical methods (such as potentiometric titration, voltammetry, etc) becomes independent of time (at least for the period of time needed to carry out the measurements). However there are electrolitic phenomena which change with time,resulting in the existence of an unsteady... 

The aim of this chapter is to show that the choice of a catalyst formulation leading to increase the activity and the selectivity of a given electrochemical reaction involved in a fuel cell can only be achieved when the mechanism of the electrocatalytic reaction is sufficiently understood. The elucidation of the mechanism caimot be obtained by using only electrochemical techniques (e.g. cyclic voltammetry, chronopotentiometry, chrono-amperometiy, coulo-metry, etc.), and usually needs a combination of such techniques with spectroscopic and analytical techniques. A detailed study of the reaction mechanism has thus to be carried out with spectroscopic and analytical techniques under electrochemical control. In short, the combination of electrochemical methods with other physicochemical methods cannot be disputed to determine some key reaction steps. For this purpose, it is then necessary to be able to identify the nature of adsorbed intermediates, the stractuie of adsorbed layers, the natirre of the reaction products and byproducts, etc., and to determine the amormt of these species, as a fimction of the electrode potential and experimental conditions. 

G.Chariot, J.Badoz-Lambling B- Tre-millon, "Electrochemical Reactions. The Electrochemical Methods of Analysis , Elsevier Amsterdam (196 2), 309 10 (Chrono-amperometry at const potential) 3IO-I3 (Chronoamperometry with varying potential) 314-18 (Chronopotentiometry) 318-24 (Oscillographic polarography) 32)D.N.Hume, Anal Chem 34, I78R-I79R (April 1962) (Chronopotentiometry a review)... 

The combination of ultra-high vacuum (UHV) surface science techniques with electrochemical methods of electrode surface characterization (voltammetry, chrono-coulometry) resulted in a spectacular progress in the investigation and molecular level understanding of some processes occurring at electrode/solution interfaces. Evidently the experimental approach strongly depends on the aims of the investigation and the systems to be studied. 

Other Techniques - Other electrochemical techniques that could be employed in sensor technology would include potential-step methods (or chrono-amperometry, as current is recorded with time), current-step methods (or chronopotentiometry, as potential is recorded with time) and AC impedance. None of these techniques appear to have yet been applied to catalyst sensing in a systematic way. 

For decades the electrochemical techniques, i.e., potential, current, or charge step methods such as - chronoamperometry, - chronocoulometry, - chrono-potentiometry, coulostatic techniques were consid-... 

For decades the electrochemical techniques, i.e., potential, current, or charge step methods such as chronoamperometry, -r chronocoulometry, chrono-potentiometry, coulostatic techniques were considered as fast techniques, and only with other pulse techniques such as temperature jump (T-jump) introduced by Eigen [i] or flash-photolysis method invented by Norrish and Porter [ii], much shorter time ranges became accessible. (For these achievements Eigen, Norrish, and Porter shared the 1964 Nobel Prize.) The advanced versions of flash-photolysis allow to study fast homogeneous reactions, even in the picosecond and femtosecond ranges [hi] (Zewail, A.H., Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1999). Several other techniques have been elaborated for the study of rapid reactions, e.g., flow techniques (stopped-flow method), ultrasorhc methods, pressure jump, pH-jump, NMR methods. 

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