Voltametry

Current-potential measurements at semiconductor electrodes are usually performed in a cell with three electrodes under potentiostatic conditions. The cell is illustrated schematically in Fig. 4.2. It consists of the working electrode WE (a semiconductor 

To avoid artifacts in impedance measurements when modulating the input voltage of the potentiostat at high frequencies ( 10 kHz), the reference electrode should be short-circuited via a capacitance of 10 nF and a Pt wire dipped into the solution in the main part of the cell (Fig. 4.2). The surface of the counter electrode should be sufficiently large so that its interface with the electrolyte does not influence the current-potential curve. Usually a platinized Pt sheet is used as a counter electrode. The electrolyte is made conductive by adding an inert salt of a concentration in the range of 10-3-10- M. 

The external voltage is supplied by a corresponding voltage generator as schematically shown in Fig. 4.3. In this way the electrode potential can be scanned over several volts at a selected scan rate. The resulting current-potential curve can be displayed by a recorder or by using a computer. 

Semiconductor Electrochemistry, Zweite Auflage. Rttdiger Memming. 

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The nitrophenols are widely used in industry. For the determination of nitrophenols (NP) elassie ehemieal methods sueh as titration, as well as potentiometry, voltametry, speetrophotometry and ehromatography ai e used. Existing methods are poorly seleetive and don t allow to determinat of nitrophenols in solution without their preliminai y separation. 

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Sodium dodecyl sulfate has been used to modify polypyrrole film electrodes. Electrodes synthesized in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate have improved redox processes which are faster and more reversible than those prepared without this surfactant. The electrochemical behavior of these electrodes was investigated by cyclic voltametry and frequence response analysis. The electrodes used in lithium/organic electrolyte batteries show improved performance [195]. 

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. 

Anodic stripping voltametry Applicable to few metals and dependent on metal speciation 10 to 10 ° M... 

JORGENSEN L V and SKIBSTED L H (1998) Flavonoid deactivation of ferrylmyoglobin in relation to ease of oxidation as determined by cyclic voltametry, Free Rad Res, 28, 335-51. 

P. Seelig and H. Blount, Kalman Filter applied to Anodic Stripping Voltametry Theory. Anal. Chem., 48 (1976) 252-258. 

Trends in J(P1SN) and 615 N for a series of triphenyl-phospha(A )azenes (33) were used with 1 3C and 31 P n.m.r. data, cyclic voltametry and MO calculations to evaluate the nature of the bonding to phosphorus.79 Diphosphorylamides (34) ° and a diazaphosphorin dithione 1 was also studied by SN n.m.r. spectroscopy ... 

In the cyclic voltametry heteroacenes 18a and 18c (Table 2) showed reversible oxidation waves at rather low oxidation potentials. In compounds 18a-c and 19, the oxidation potential can be tuned by the substituents R. The electrochemical data for heteroacenes 18 and 19 are given in Table 11. 

Electrochromic materials (either as an electroactive surface film or an electroactive solute) are generally first studied at a single working electrode, under potentiostatic or galvanostatic control, using three-electrode circuitry.1 Traditional electrochemical techniques such as cyclic voltametry (CV), coulometry, and chronoamperometry, all partnered by in situ spectroscopic measurements... 

A wide variety of other methods have been used to obtain the concentration of either the metal or ligand in a particular equilibrium solution. These include polarography, spectrophotometry, magnetic resonance, cyclic voltametry and conductivity. Of course, if reliable results are to be obtained, the technique chosen must not significantly perturb the position of equilibrium in the solution. 

The conditions for reliable cyclic voltametry determination of trace Sn concentrations in sea water were investigated. All organotin compounds should be converted to Sn(II) by UV-photolysis adsorption on mercury drop in the presence of 40 pM of tropolone (1) cyclic voltametry stripping shows two cathodic peaks, corresponding to the two-step process Sn(IV) — Sn(II) -> Sn(0)29. A complex of Sn ions with catechol can be accumulated in a glassy carbon mercury film electrode, followed by stripping voltametry measurement in the cathodic direction, at pH 4.2-4.7. Interference occurs when Cu, Cd and Cr are present LOD 0.5 pg/L for 300 s accumulation30. 

The electrochemical behaviour of trace concentrations of triphenylstannyl acetate, using a mercury film-glassy carbon electrode, was investigated by various measuring methods cyclic voltametry, differential pulse voltametry and controlled-potential electrolysis. Determination by DPASV (differential pulse ASV) of water and fish samples has LOD 2.5 nM98. 

A mechanism was proposed for electrochemical reduction by ASV (anodic stripping voltametry) of aqueous tributylstannyl cations using mercury electrodes, in the presence of nitrate and chloride ions. It consists of three main processes, taking place at different... 

A method for Pb and other metals in seawater consists of an adsorption step of the complex with 8-hydroxyquinoline (3) followed by differential cathodic stripping voltametry LOD 0.03 nM Pb, after 10 min adsorption74. 

The oxidation processes shown in reactions 4 and 5 are the basis for differential pulse polarography/cyclic voltametry determination of dialkyllead and trialkyllead species135. 

The presence of two types of titanium sites in TS-1 (tetra- and tripodal) was also suggested by the cyclic voltametry experiments of Bodoardo et al. (158). The tripodal Ti(OSi)3(OH) showed a redox couple at 0 V and the tetrapodal Ti(OSi)4... 

Alternatively, cetrimide (197c) and cetylpyridinium chloride were determined in industrial and consumer products, by indirect adsorptive stripping voltametry on a dropping mercury electrode425. A rapid method for benzalkonium chloride (197b) in pharmaceutical preparations was based on LLE of the picrate into chloroform in an F1A system and determination of the anion426. 

The mechanism of the global 4-electron electrochemical reduction of aromatic nitro compounds to hydroxylamines in aqueous medium shown in reaction 37 was investigated by polarography and cyclic voltametry. The nitro group is converted first to a dihy-droxylamine, that on dehydration yields a nitroso group the latter is further reduced to a... 

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