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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 78, Issue 19, Pages 6868-6872Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac060818o
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As an alternative to the usual commercial reference and quasi-reference electrodes (QREs), we propose metal (Pt, stainless steel) coated with partially oxidized polypyrrole as a QRE. The electrode is easily fabricated by cyclic voltammetry (CV) with the metal electrode in an acetonitrile or CH2Cl2 solution of 10 mM pyrrole containing 0.1 M Bu4NPF6. These QREs were more stable than the widely used metal (e. g., Ag, Pt) wire QRE as demonstrated by testing in several aqueous and organic media, with the stability checked by CV with ferrocenemethanol as the redox species. The results obtained demonstrate good stability of these QREs over a period of 1 day and relatively reproducible potential in a given solvent and supporting electrolyte. This electrode has the advantage that it does not contaminate the test solution with ions or solvent from a usual liquid electrolyte (e. g., the KCl in an Ag/AgCl). It is also simple to fabricate very small electrodes for use in nanocells, e. g., in scanning tunneling and electrochemical microscopy.
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