Journal
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION
Volume 98, Issue 10, Pages 3263-3268Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00155
Keywords
First-Year Undergraduate/General; Second-Year Undergraduate; Upper-Division Undergraduate; Laboratory Instruction; Public Understanding/Outreach; Hands-On Learning/Manipulatives; Electrochemistry
Funding
- National Science Foundation [1800177]
- US Department of Education HSI STEM [P031C160221]
- Division Of Chemistry
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1800177] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Electrochemistry is a broad and interdisciplinary field that plays a crucial role in science, technology, engineering, math, and medical fields. Traditional undergraduate chemistry education lacks opportunities for students to connect classroom learning with real-world applications. Through hands-on cyclic voltammetry practice, learners can develop skills in electrode care, data acquisition, and pattern recognition.
Electrochemistry is broad and interdisciplinary by nature and as such has become a powerful tool in science, technology, engineering, math, and medical (STEMM) fields ranging from energy storage to biotechnology. However, traditional undergraduate chemistry education does not offer students the opportunity to create direct connections between topics learned in a lecture course and applications beyond the examples depicted in textbooks. Here, we offer a framework that introduces learners to hands-on cyclic voltammetry in a general chemistry laboratory course setting or in outreach activities. In 2-4 h, learners practice electrode care, data acquisition, and the pattern recognition needed for discerning reversible, quasireversible, and irreversible solution-phase redox events.
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