Teaching of electroanalytical chemistry and its impact on the position of electroanalytical methods in practical laboratories
Abstract
In 1922, when Prof. Heyrovský carried out his pioneering experiments with a dropping mercury electrode, it was difficult to imagine the enormous role polarography will play in analytical chemistry in 1950s and 1960s of the twentieth century.
However, fascinating development in the field of spectrometric and separation methods resulted in at least partial retreat of polarographic and voltammetric methods from practical analytical laboratories. And, unfortunately, this process also resulted in a considerable retreat of electroanalytical methods in curriculum vitae at most universities.
And, vice versa, this retreat has resulted to decreasing awareness of new the generation of analytical chemists about possibilities and advantages of both classic and modern polarographic and voltammetric methods. The aim of this article is to show that even today modern voltammetric methods can play a useful role in practical laboratories and to express our ideas what we-as researchers and university teachers-should do to initiate renaissance of voltammetric methods in analytical laboratories.