The tutorial lecture will provide an overview of scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) and its prerequisites, limitations and fields of applications.

The main aspects will be:

• Scanning probe microscopy as a tool for gathering localized physical, topographic and electrochemical information.
• System set-up, imaging modes, achievable resolution. Combination with electrochemistry.
• Fabrication of micro- and nanoelectrodes and specific characteristics
• Feedback mode, generator collector mode, impedance and redox competition mode of SECM
• Application of SECM in biosensor development, material research, micro- and nanostructuring of surfaces, catalyst evaluation

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4. Design of the interface properties of self-assembled thiol/DNA monolayers for improved DNA detection assays.
5. Impedimetric RNA assay – detection of the activity of a hairpin ribozyme
6. Scanning electrochemical microscopy into the nanoscale
7. Horse-radish peroxidase-modified 3D-hierarchical carbon nanotube electrode - characteristics and potential applications
8. Laccase-redoxpolymer cathodes for biofuel cells. Evaluation using an electrochemical robotic system.
9. Pyrolyzed polypyrrole-metal composites immobilized on glassy carbon for gas sensing and catalytic applications
10. Visualisation of local catalyst activity towards oxygen reduction in hydrochloric acid solution with RC-SECM
11. Determination of optimum imaging contrast in AC - SECM
12. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) for detection of DNA hybridization in presence of intercalators
13. Shearforce-based distance control in scanning electrochemical microscopy
14. Metalloporphyrin modified glassy carbon electrodes for oxygen reduction: Investigation of local electrocatalytic activity
15. Mathematical tools for characterization of spatial variability of surface activity based on SECM images
16. Visualisation of the effect on catalytic activity of increasing Pt agglomerate sizes using constant-distance mode SECM in a competition mode
17. Reagentless biosensors based on mediator-modified electrodeposition hydrogels
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