Hey..I want to start electrocatalysis for small molecule activation, but the problem is that I am not getting that how do I fix the scan rate. I read some literature where in some of them people are keeping 0.1 V/s, somewhere 0.05 V/s, or somewhere 1.0 V/s, hence I am confused.
Kindly help me in this regard.
Thanks for giving your valuable time and considerations.
Hi,
You should explore the electrochemical response of your catalyst/material at varying scan rates, as the CVs will provide different information depending on the time scale of your experiments. Please refer to specialized textbooks for more details (e.g. those by Bard or Savéant).
Besides, the choice of the scan rate for meaningful CVs to display in a main text figure will also depend on your system, and benchmarking based only on this variable is not easy, and not always useful.
Hope it helps!