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Electrochemical properties of silver–copper alloy microelectrodes for use in voltammetric field apparatus

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Microelectrodes of silver–copper alloys have been evaluated for use in voltammetric analyses. Increased overpotential towards the hydrogen overvoltage reaction (HER) was found as a function of increased copper content in the silver. A study of oxidizing products by cyclic voltammetry (CV) in NaOH solution showed ten anodic and eight cathodic peaks which are described in the present paper. The behaviour of these alloy electrodes is somewhere between pure silver and pure copper electrodes. Differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry (DPASV) was used to measure zinc, cadmium and lead in ultrapure water only (18 MΩcm), and good linearity was found for all metals (r 2=0.998) in the range of 0.5 to 5 ppb with a 600- to 1,200-s plating time. It was additionally found that cadmium and lead were better separated on the alloy electrodes compared to pure silver electrodes. Measurements of nickel were carried out on alloy electrodes by use of adsorptive differential pulse cathodic stripping voltammetry (Ad-DPCSV), and good linearity (r 2=1.000) was found in the range from 0.5 to 5 ppb with an adsorption time of 120 s. The alloy electrodes were also found to be sensitive to nitrate, and good linearity (r 2=0.997) was found in the range from 1 mg L−1 to 100 mg L−1 using differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) scanning from −450 mV to −1,500 mV. Addition of nitrate in ultrapure water afforded two different peaks related to the successive reductions of nitrate and nitrite. In ammonium buffer solution (pH 8.6) only one peak resulting from reduction of nitrate was observed. Furthermore, the use of alloy electrodes containing 17% Cu was tested in real samples, by installing it in a voltammetric system for monitoring of zinc and lead in a polluted river, the river Deûle, near the town of Douai in northern France. Results were found to be in agreement with parallel measurements carried out by ICP-MS.

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    Silje M. Skogvold & Øyvind Mikkelsen

  2. University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, Laboratory of Analytical and Marine Chemistry (UMR8013), 59655, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

    Gabriel Billon, Cedric Garnier, Ludovic Lesven & Jean-Francois Barthe

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Skogvold, S.M., Mikkelsen, Ø., Billon, G. et al. Electrochemical properties of silver–copper alloy microelectrodes for use in voltammetric field apparatus. Anal Bioanal Chem 384, 1567–1577 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-006-0334-4

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