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About addition of internal standard ferrocene for CV
« on: July 22, 2014, 09:25:45 AM »
How do you guys add the internal standard ferrocene??

Some add TOGETHER with the sample but I add it separately. I think both of them work fine, but there is someone who says adding separately is wrong....


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Re: About addition of internal standard ferrocene for CV
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2014, 09:05:37 PM »
Internal means you have to add. Otherwise its an external standard.

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Re: About addition of internal standard ferrocene for CV
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2014, 11:42:42 PM »
But I think both ways work. right?

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Re: About addition of internal standard ferrocene for CV
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2014, 01:20:22 PM »
I dont know your analysis, so cannot give a recommandation to it.

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Re: About addition of internal standard ferrocene for CV
« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2014, 02:55:08 PM »
Can you please expand on what you do/order of addition?

i.e. I work in electrocatalysis. I cannot add ferrocene until the final step, to make sure ferrocene does not affect catalysis or act in conjunction with my system.

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Re: About addition of internal standard ferrocene for CV
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2014, 07:26:10 AM »
I am doing Cyclic Voltammetry where the ferrocene is the standard whose HOMO is known to be -4.8eV.

My protocol is (actually taught by some senior in former school): after measuring the sample without ferrocene. Then run a final run of ferrocene and the E1/2 of this run will be the reference point, i.e. -4.8eV.

But I was told I had to add ferrocene together with sample as "internal standard". I am NOT saying that adding ferrocene with sample is wrong, but running separately is also fine and this is NOT wrong

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