Comparisons of disposable and conventional silver working electrode for the determination of iodide using high-performance anion-exchange chromatography with pulsed amperometric detection

The paper compared the performance of two kinds of silver working electrode in electrochemical detector-the disposable and conventional electrode for the determination of iodide using high-performance anion-exchange chromatography (HPAEC) hyphenated with pulsed amperometric detection (PAD). The comparisons were carried out on the time of equilibration, long and short-term reproducibility, limits of detection and linearity of calibration. Results showed that disposable working electrode manifested equal or better results than conventional working electrode and could be used for iodide analysis. Besides, the disposable electrode could work for consecutive 2660 min (about 44 h, 10 min needed for each run) with no degradation. Due to its “disposable” property, disposable working electrode could be discarded if the detection sensitivity decreased to 80% so the time for polishing and reconditioning was spared and good reproducible results could be obtained. At last, the disposable electrode was applied for the determination of iodide in soil and sea water samples with the spiked recovery ranging from 96-104% and the detection limit of 0.5 μg/L (10 μL injection, three times of the baseline noise).