CHAPTER 2: Electrochemical Methods

Life links electrical pulses and chemical reactions in dense gels at the scientific borders between biochemistry, biology, chemistry, electrochemistry, polymer science, the behavioral sciences and mechanics. In this context, basic electrochemical methods, linking electrical pulses and chemical reactions, are expected to play a central role to attain our aims: new chemical models describing electro-chemo-biomimetic devices and biological functions. Here, electrodes, electrolytes, electrochemical cells and basic potentiostatic and galvanostatic methodologies are described. They will be used later on for the electrosynthesis of conducting polymers, for the study of their biomimetic electrochemical properties and for the characterization of the concomitant biomimetic electrochemical devices.