Talk:Cyclic voltammetry
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Potential ramp
[edit]The potential ramp shown is characteristic of linear sweep CV, but it's not a characteristic of cyclic voltammetry in general. There are also other ramps, like staircase or square wave. I find this quite misleading. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JPBoyd (talk • contribs) 16:20, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
formal potential vs. half-cell potential
[edit]It ist not the half cell potential that is measured by cyclic voltammetry, the potetnial is known as formal potential. It cannot be, because the half-cell potential E0 is found at equal concentrations of reduced and oxidized form, this is usually not the case in such experiments. You can easily check this by measuring a CV of ferrocene vs. a Fc/Fc+ electrode in acetonitrile or K4FeCN6 vs. a K3FeCN6/K4FeCN6 electrode in water. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JPBoyd (talk • contribs) 16:26, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
CV image at the start of the article has one axis inverted
[edit]one of the axes cannot be correct here -- reduction (going to less-positive potentials) does not give a positive current-- it gives a negative current (i should be negative for e- flowing in)
(either y ^^ and x ^^ both tend to negative (American convention) or both tend to positive (IUPAC convention))
so one of the axes is backwards in the diagram
best, — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.136.77.190 (talk) 23:13, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
CV and kinetics/scan rate
[edit]CV relates to both the thermodynamics of the redox chemistry but also kinetics of electron transfer and mass transport. As such CV contain not just information about the redox couple of the analyte but also the kinetic information of the underlying electrochemical processes. Bard and Saveant have devoted much work with great success to show the utility of CV to extract kinetic information such as observed rate constant. I think a brief discussion on this matter is warranted. FlashNickel (talk) 00:18, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
Applications Section too technical
[edit]Which parts of the applications is considered too technical? It seems to be about as complex as the rest of the article, so it would be helpful to know what specifically needs to be improved AdmiralCrackbar (talk) 21:50, 17 April 2026 (UTC)