A novel methodological approach for processing electrochemical data measured under conditionsudof square-wave voltammetry (SWV) is proposed. The methodology takes advantage of the chronoamperometricudcharacteristics of the electrochemical system observed in the course of the voltammetric experiment,whichudare commonly not considered in conventional SWV.The methodudrequires processing of a single voltammogram only, measured under given set of the potential modulation parameters (i.e. SW frequency and height of the potential pulses). The core idea is to analyze the variation of the current withudtime, considering the last quarter time period of each potential pulse of the potential modulation, insteadudof measuring the single current value from the very end of the pulses. Hence, a single point current measurementudis replaced with a multisampling current procedure, leading to a series of new SW voltammograms measured at differentudtime increments of each potential pulse. The novel methodudis illustrated by the theoretical analysis of a quasireversible electrode reaction of a dissolved and surface confined redox couple, as well as a reversible electrode reaction preceded by a chemical equilibrium reaction (CE mechanism).
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