Scanning electrochemical microscopy for combinatorial screening applications: A mini-review

• Overview of experimental approaches to combinatorial screening using SECM
• Survey of literature on SECM analysis of electrocatalyst arrays and libraries
• Recent developments in photocatalyst and photosensitizer array screening
• Advances in SECM screening of bio-molecule arrays

Scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) provides a unique approach to combinatorial screening, and this technique has found a wide variety of applications in recent years. This mini-review provides a brief summary of progress in this field, highlighting some of the most significant developments in SECM screening for electrocatalysis, photoelectrochemistry and biosensing applications.