ABSTRACT

Voltammetric measurements are usually undertaken under a fairly standard set of conditions. Thus, 0.1 M or higher concentrations of electrolyte are usually present, a single time domain-single technique (cyclic, square wave, differential pulse) is employed in any given experiment, a three-electrode potentiostatted cell configuration is used and conditions close to ambient temperature and pressure are employed. However, in each of these areas it may be argued that a generally conservative approach has been adopted by users of electrochemical methods and that the frontiers of the discipline may be expanded with careful consideration to any experimental limitations that are actually imposed on the basis of fundamental limitations rather than common practice considerations.