Potential waveform

Differential pulse voltammetry provides greater voltammetric resolution than simple linear sweep voltammetry. However, again, a longer analysis time results from the more sophisticated potential waveform. At scan rates faster than 50 mV/sec the improved resolution is lost. Because it takes longer to scan the same potential window than by linear sweep, an even longer relaxation time between scans is required for differential pulse voltammetry. 

Figure 16.3 A potential waveform in cyclic voltammetry. F°(R/R ) is the standard electrode potential of the half-reaction under examination.

An alternative and more recent electroanalytical tool is square-wave voltammetry (which is probably now employed more often than normal or differential pulse voltammetry). In this technique, a potential waveform (see Figure 6.26) is applied to the working electrode. Pairs of current measurements are then made (depicted on the figure as t and f2) these measurements are made for each wave period ( cycle ), which is why they are drawn as times after to (when the cycle started). The current associated with the forward part of the pulse is called /forward, while the current associated with the reverse part is /reverse- A square-wave voltammogram is then just a graph of the difference between these two... 

Fig. 15. A potential step experiment, (a) Potential waveform (b) current flow versus time.

Fig. 16. Stepwise potential waveform, (a) Double step (b) staircase.

The general features of the potential waveform applied and of the output currents of these double pulse techniques are shown. 

Scheme 4.4 Additive Differential Pulse Voltammetry (a) Potential waveform, (b) Signal. IM and 7m denote the maximum and minimum values of the ADDPV current and cross is the potential of null current. Dashed lines in Figure (b) correspond to the DDPV curves that are combined to obtain the ADDPV one...

In Multipulse techniques, the potential waveform consists of a sequence of potential pulses Ei, E2, , Ep, and the initial conditions of the system are only regained after the application of the last potential step [1-6]. When the potential waveform is a staircase of constant pulse amplitude AE, the perturbation includes as a limiting... 

If the potential is inverted at a given value (inversion or final potential) until the initial potential is reached again, the two above techniques are denoted Cyclic Staircase Voltammetry (CSCV) and Cyclic Voltammetry (CV), respectively (see Scheme 5.3). The potential waveform in CV can be written as a continuous function of time... 

Let us consider now a potential waveform consisting of a potential pulses sequence E, E2,. .., Ep, with each pulse of the sequence Ep being applied to an electrode of any geometry G over the interval 0 < tp < rp. The total time of the experiment is... 

Cyclic Voltammetry is the most widely used technique for acquiring qualitative information about electrochemical processes and it has also proved to be very useful for the study of ion transfer across bulk, supported, or polymer composite membranes [63]. The expression for the current in CV can be obtained from Eq. (5.105) by considering the potential waveform given in (5.1),... 

This change is external and directly imposed by the particular form of the potential waveform applied. 

In this section, a brief discussion will be presented about the solution for the current-potential response of different charge transfer processes taking place at a planar electrode when a cyclic linear sweep potential is applied. This procedure has been discussed in detail in references [1-3] and only a short deduction will be provided here. The potential waveform can be written as... 

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High-speed linear-sweep voltammetry (LSV) or linear potential sweep chronoamperometry (top) potential waveform (bottom) current response. The areas between the solid lines and the dotted lines measure approximately the charge transferred in the oxidation or reduction. 

Fig. 3 Illustration of the potential ( ) waveform applied and the current (/) response during double potential step chronoamperometry...

Figure 6 Potential waveforms for linear sweep (LSV (a) and cyclic voltammetry (CV) (b) displaying potential versus time including the initial and final potentials, and a typical hnear sweep voltammogram and cyclic voltammogram plotting current versus potential...

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