Adsorptive stripping voltammetry of antibiotics of rifamycin SV (RSV) and rifampicin (RIF) was investigated by cyclic voltammetry and differential pulse voltammetry using a renewable pencil graphite electrode (PGE). The nature of the oxidation process of RSV and RIF taking place at the PGE was characterized. The results show that the determination of highly sensitive oxidation peak current is t...

Linear sweep and cyclic voltammetry techniques are important tools for electrochemists and have a variety of applications in engineering. Voltammetry has classically been treated with the Randles-Sevcik equation, which assumes an electroneutral supported electrolyte. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive mathematical theory of voltammetry in electrochemical cells with unsupported electrolyt...

Polypyrrole nanoparticles were synthesized by chemical polymerization method using ammonium persulphate as an oxidant. The synthesized polypyrrole nanoparticles were characterized by FT-IR, UV-Visible, FESEM and CV. The structure of polypyrrole nanoparticles were confirmed by FT-IR spectroscopy. The UV-Vis spectra of polypyrrole nanoparticles show π-π* and n-π* transitions. The morphological pr...

The search for drugs with cytostatic activity and with better pharmacokinetic features led to the synthesis of Navelbine (5'-noranhydrovinblastine) which is a structural modification of antitumour Vinca alkaloids. The new drug Navelbine has high liposolubility, a lower toxicity and increased antitumour activity. The electrochemical oxidation of Navelbine was studied over a wide pH range (1.2-12...

The goal of our project is to pattern well-defined electrodes from single-layer graphene for use in electrochemistry investigations. We have fabricated devices using both mechanically exfoliated graphene and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) graphene. Preliminary experimental data show that the graphene is chemically clean, based on measurements that the effective area of the electrodes determine...

The time responses of two electrochemical methods, amperometry (AMP) and cyclic voltammetry (CV), used in a microchannel to detect the concentration variations of an outer-sphere redox species were compared. Overall, our results show that the temporal resolution of AMP is superior to the one of CV. As no secondary reaction (formation of chemical bounds, adsorption, etc.) can hinder the detectio...

The d. c. and a. c. polarography and cyclic voltammetry were applied to the study of uranyl-salicylate and uranyl-phthalate complexes. The study was limited to the pH range <5, because insoluble uranyl-hydroxydes are formed above this pH value. Uranyl-salicylate and -phthalate are irreversibly reduced. The electrode process is preceded by the chemical reaction of the complex with protons. By th...

There are various ways to impose a potential variation in time, and subsequently a series of voltammetric methods. Cyclic voltammetry relies on linearly scanning the potential in time, observing a triangular waveform variation [1-3]. Differential pulse voltammetry is based on two samplings of the current intensity for each potential pulse: one measurement before applying the pulse, and the seco...

Hybrid organic / inorganic films, composed of poly 4-aminoquinolidine (PAQ) matrix and Prussian blue – like copper hexacyanoferrate (CuHCFe) redox centers were prepared. Platinum disk (Pt) was used as a conductive substrate onto which the hybrid films (Pt/PAQ/CuHCFe) were electrodeposited by potential cycling. Electrochemical behavior of the modified electrode was well characterized using cycli...