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Applications of Chemometrics‐Assisted Voltammetric Analysis
Electroanalytical techniques consist of the interplay between electricity and chemistry, namely the measurement of electrical quantities, such as charge, current or potential and their relationship to chemical parameters. Electrical measurements for analytical purposes have found a lot of applications including industry quality control, environmental monitoring and biomedical analysis. Chemometrics is the chemical discipline that uses mathematical and statistical methods to design or select optimal procedures and experiments and to provide maximum chemical information by analysing chemical data. The use of chemometrics in electroanalytical chemistry is not as popular as in spectroscopy, although recently, applications of these methods for mathematical resolution of overlapping signals, calibration and model identification have been increasing. The electroanalytical methods will be improved with the application of chemometrics for simultaneous quantitative prediction of analytes or qualitative resolution of complex overlapping responses. This chapter focuses on applications of first-, second- and third-order multivariate calibration coupled with voltammetric data for quantitative purposes and has been written from both electrochemical and chemometrical points of view with the aim of providing useful information for the electrochemists to promote the use of chemometrics in electroanalytical chemistry.
Part of the book: Applications of the Voltammetry