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SAGE-Hindawi Access to ResearchInternational Journal of ElectrochemistryVolume 2011, Article ID 196106, 2 pagesdoi:10.4061/2011/196106
Editorial
Modern Analytical Electrochemistry: Fundamentals,Experimental Techniques, and Applications
Bengi Uslu,1 Hassan Y. Aboul-Enein,2 and Sibel A. Ozkan1
1 Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ankara University, Tandogan, 06100 Ankara, Turkey2 Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry Department, National Research Centre, Cairo 12311, Egypt
Correspondence should be addressed to Bengi Uslu, [email protected]
Received 16 November 2011; Accepted 16 November 2011
Copyright © 2011 Bengi Uslu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Such use of electrical measurements for analytical purposeshas found a vast range of applications, including environ-mental monitoring, drug and biomedical analysis. Advancesin the 1980s and 1990s—including the development ofultramicroelectrodes, the coupling of biological compo-nents and electrochemical transducers, the developmentof ultratrace voltammetric techniques (such as differentialpulse voltammetry, square wave voltammetry, strippingvoltammetry, etc.) or the use of single-walled and multi-walled carbon nanotubes in scanning probe microscopies,and the microfabrication of molecular devices or efficientflow detectors—have led to a substantial increase in thepopularity of electroanalysis and to its expansion into newphases environments.
The use of electrochemical methods to gain key informa-tion about drug molecules and their mechanism of actionis getting one of the important ways in drug discovery. Itshould be noticed that many vital physiological processesare depending on oxidoreduction reactions. So, it is easyto find connections between electrochemical and biologicalreactions regarding electron transfer pathways.
Progress in genomics and particularly in the HumanGenome Project in that time stimulated enormous interestin new methods capable to unravel the genetic informationstored in the nucleotide sequence of DNA. Only afterthe construction of DNA chips with optical detection, theattempts to developed DNA chips with electrochemicaldetection have become popular among electrochemists.Since the middle of 1990s, the electrochemistry of nucleicacids and the development of DNA sensors have become abooming field involving large number of laboratories all overthe world. Electrochemical DNA biosensors enable the study
of the interaction of DNA immobilized on the electrodesurface with analytes in solution. The investigation basedon DNA interactions has great importance in understandingthe mechanism of action of many drug compound andcomplexes, designing of new DNA-drug biosensors, andscreening of the drugs in vitro. Electrochemical investiga-tions of nucleic acid binding molecules-DNA interactionscan provide a useful complement to the spectroscopictechniques and yield information about the mechanism atintercalation and the confirmation of anti-HIV-DNA adduct.
Analytical electrochemists play important roles in mon-itoring the drug and some metals in their dosage forms,biological samples, and environmental samples. From theviewpoints mentioned above, the title of this special issue“Modern analytical electrochemistry: fundamentals, experi-mental techniques, and applications” was chosen so as to askelectrochemists to appreciate their great roles in chemistryscience. This special issue features 5 review and 20 researcharticles. In this issue: Recent development of electroanalyticaltechniques such as differential pulse, square wave andtheir pharmaceutical and environmental applications arepresented. It mainly contains current progresses in modifiedelectrodes, DNA biosensors, sensors and their applicationsto the pharmaceuticals and biological samples, and newelectrode materials such as carbon nanotubes and boron-doped diamond.
The recent development of modern analytical chemistryapplications, evaluation of electroanalytical methods arefocused by key topics in drug and environmental analysis byassessment of the distinguished authors of this special issue.Thus, we expect this special issue will assist readers to findout new information and to encourage them to contribute
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more to recent development on drug and environmentalanalysis using different electroanalytical methods.
The purpose of this special issue will be to serve as a guideto what electroanalytical methods bring to chemistry as wellas briefly review their role in drug or environmental samplesand the new developments and validation of assay methodsof pharmaceutical active components in their dosage formsor in other samples. We hope that the reader will find anumber of topics of interest and that additional new ideaswill emerge from this special issue.
Acknowledgment
We would like to thank to all of the authors for their excel-lent contributions and the Editorial Board members of Inter-national Journal of Electrochemistry for their kind invitationsto act as guest editors for this special issue.
Bengi UsluHassan Y. Aboul-Enein
Sibel A. Ozkan
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