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Published on: July 1, 2016
Determination of trace metal speciation parameters by using screen-printed electrodes in stripping
C Parat1, A Schneider, A Castetbon
1Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour/CNRS, LCABIE, UMR 5254 IPREM 2 Avenue P. Angot, 64053 Pau Cedex 9, France. corinne.parat@univ-pau.fr
Abstract:
The objective of this study was to exploit the advantages of stripping chronopotentiometry (SCP) and stripping chronopotentiometry at scanned deposition potential (SSCP) for trace metal speciation analyses by using thin-film mercury screen-printed electrodes (TMF-SPE). At first, the SCP parameters were optimised for TMF-SPE, in order to reach the complete depletion regime. It has been shown that a stripping current higher than or equal to 10 μA allows this regime to be attained without removing oxygen from the solution. Then, these analytical conditions were used for the construction of SSCP curves for Cd-PDCA and Cd-NTA. When the concentration of free ligand in solution was known, the knowledge of the model describing the SSCP curves in absence and presence of a complex and the use of an effective fitting tool enabled estimating the stability constant and the rate constants for complexation. Further studies with complexes of restricted mobility are however necessary to assess the usefulness of this procedure to also estimate the diffusion coefficient of the complexes. Besides, this study showed that this approach was valid even when ligands were not in excess at the electrode during stripping.
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