A facile route to temperature determination in hot-wire electrochemistry

The determination of the actual electrode surface temperature is important for all electrochemical methods using in situ heating of electrodes. Existing methods of temperature measurement of a heated thin-wire electrode are of restricted use and critically discussed in the introduction. The use of the electrode wire itself as a resistive thermometer is improved in the present method. With the new thermoelectrochemical method temperature pulse voltammetry, the reliability of different thermometric methods can be compared. In this way, it is ensured to have correct temperature measurements at wire microelectrodes in all common solvents available.