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Rapid and sensitive determination of cobalt by adsorptive cathodic stripping voltammetry using tin–bismuth alloy electrode

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Tin–bismuth alloy electrode (SnBiE) was used for trace cobalt determination for the first time. Compared to the bismuth bulk electrode, the SnBiE possesses the advantages of higher hydrogen overpotential, easier manufacture, and lower cost. In addition, there is no need for a pretreatment (in terms of modification) of the electrode before measurements. The analysis of Co(II) was made by the adsorptive accumulation of the cobalt–nioxime complex from solution containing 60 μM nioxime and 0.1 M ammonia at pH 9.4 and followed by the reduction of the accumulated complex. The electroanalysis results show that the optimal sensitivity can be obtained by using nitrite as the auxiliary reagent. The calibration plot for Co(II) quantification was linear from 0.2 to 20 nM with a correlation coefficient of 0.998. Meanwhile, a detection limit of 44 pM was obtained in connection with an accumulation time of 60 s, which is more sensitive than that of the mercury, bismuth, lead, and lead–copper electrodes. The practical applications of SnBiE have been performed for the determination of Co(II) in real water samples, and the results are consistent with those results by use of inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (ICP-MS).

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Zhang, L., Pan, Dw. & Liu, Ys. Rapid and sensitive determination of cobalt by adsorptive cathodic stripping voltammetry using tin–bismuth alloy electrode. Ionics 22, 721–729 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-015-1596-7

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