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Electrochemistry is far more than corrosion and batteries, it is embedded in entire life on Earth and in our environment.1 Breathing involves electrochemical oxygen reduction, while cellular energy production via Adenosine Triphosphate arises from electron-transfer reactions in the Mitochondrial Electron Transport Chain. While the Membrane Potential governs cellular communication, redox enzymes drive biochemical transformations, and ion transport sustains homeostasis. Drug action is also rooted in electrochemical interactions, highlighting electrochemistry as a universal language of charge transfer and energy conversion.
Voltammetry is recognized as the most prominent electrochemical technique and it is often seen as indispensable tool in modern laboratories, enabling direct probing of electron-transfer processes through current–potential measurements.2 It has provided fundamental mechanistic insights into various chemical and biochemical systems, allowing kinetic, thermodynamic, and quantitative analysis, with its importance reflected in several Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognitions.
Since the charge transfer is involved in vast majority of chemical and biological processes,3 voltammetry serves as a unifying platform across chemistry, pharmacy, biomedicine, physics, and environmental sciences. While voltammetry is easily achievable experimental technique, interpretation of voltammetric results often requires rigorous theoretical models.
This talk presents voltammetry as a unified framework addressing phenomena related to charge and mass transfer, and many other aspects such as adsorption, coupled chemical reactions, drug–drug interactions, nano-electrochemistry, and energy systems such as biofuel cells. By integrating experiments with theory, voltammetry emerges as one of the most versatile techniques, offering a unique perspective on electrochemical phenomena.