Reference electrode misuse sparks alarm among electrochemists
By 
George Barsted2023-08-21T08:06:00
Inaccurate measurements caused by poor practice has meant that electrochemists are educating others on how to maintain accuracy when venturing into the world of electrocatalysis
Electrocatalysis has a problem. ‘The number of people doing studies with inappropriate reference electrodes in aqueous electrochemistry is really alarming,’ says Anantharaj Sengeni, from the SRM Institute of Science and Technology in India. Working alongside Suguru Noda from Waseda University in Japan, Sengeni has uncovered thousands of such incidences and associated errors in the scientific literature. They hope that by highlighting potential pitfalls, newcomers to the field will be more likely to report reliable data.