Analogue circuit realisation of surface-confined redox reaction kinetics

The literature on voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) recognises the importance of using large-amplitude sinusoidal perturbations to better characterise electrochemical systems. To identify the parameters of a given reaction, various electrochemical models with different sets of values are simulated and compared against the experimental data to determine the best-fit set of parameters. However, the process of solving these nonlinear models is computationally expensive. This paper proposes analogue circuit elements for synthesising surface-confined electrochemical kinetics at the electrode interface. The resultant analogue model could be used as a solver to compute reaction parameters as well as a tracker for ideal biosensor behaviour. The performance of the analogue model was verified against numerical solutions to theoretical and experimental electrochemical models. Results show that the proposed analogue model has a high accuracy of at least 97% and a wide bandwidth of up to 2 kHz. The circuit consumed an average power of 9 μW.