title: High-speed scanning electrochemical microscopy method for substrate kinetic determination: method and theory.
abstract: Scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) allows imaging and analysis of a variety of biological samples, such as living cells. Up to now, it still remains a challenge to successfully decouple signals related to topography and reactivity. Furthermore, such delicate samples require careful adjustment of experimental parameters, such as scan velocity. The present study proposes a method to extract a substrate's kinetic rate by numerical modeling and experimental high speed constant height SECM imaging. This is especially useful for the determination of substrates with unknown surface reaction kinetics and large topographical features. To make this approach applicable to soft cell samples, which cannot be imaged at high velocity, a nonlinear fit strategy is presented to obtain kinetic rate values also under slow scan velocity conditions.
authors.affiliation: †McGill University, Chemistry Department, 801 Sherbrooke Street W., Montreal, Québec H3A 2A7, Canada.
authors.forename: Sabine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kuss
authors.affiliation: ‡Université de la Rochelle, Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Ingénieur Pour l'Environnement, Avenue Michel Crépeau, 17000 La Rochelle, France.
authors.forename: Dao
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Trinh
authors.affiliation: †McGill University, Chemistry Department, 801 Sherbrooke Street W., Montreal, Québec H3A 2A7, Canada.
authors.forename: Laurence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Danis
authors.affiliation: †McGill University, Chemistry Department, 801 Sherbrooke Street W., Montreal, Québec H3A 2A7, Canada.
authors.forename: Janine
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mauzeroll
mesh_terms: D002623:Chemistry Techniques, Analytical / Q000379:methods*; D004566:Electrodes; D007700:Kinetics; D064347:Microscopy, Electrochemical, Scanning; D010984:Platinum / Q000737:chemistry; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D011108:Polymers; D010984:Platinum