We report a new reusable electrochemical array for parallel biamperometric measurements that has been designed for use with standard microplates. The 48-channel array uses half of the available 96 wells and has 48 pairs of Pt wire electrodes. Applications to the quantitation of a variety of oxidizable species, including acetaminophen, ascorbic acid, hydroquinone, trolox, and uric acid, are demonstrated in assays that use potassium ferricyanide as an oxidant to produce a mixture of ferri- and ferrocyanide. Hydrogen peroxide quantitation is also demonstrated, based on an assay in which ferrocyanide is oxidized, again to produce a mixture of ferri- and ferrocyanide. Detection limits (signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) = 3) in these assays range from 1 (acetaminophen, R2 = 0.994) to 8 microM (ascorbic acid, R2 = 0.967), and linearity was observed to analyte concentrations of at least 100 microM. We also demonstrate the application of the biamperometric array to enzymatic assays, using the glucose oxidase reaction as an example; following a 20 min enzyme reaction time, a detection limit of 0.1 mM glucose was obtained. These results indicate that applications to other oxidase-based assays are feasible in this high-throughput format. The new electrochemical array employs standard, inexpensive microplates, and the biamperometric measurements are simple, precise, and rapid, requiring only 2 min for 48 parallel measurements.

A new construct called market-scanning capability has been conceptualized that captures firms' capability to sense or to respond to the changes in the marketplace. The second-order reflective construct was found to have four first-order components that are named as CustInfo (i.e., collection of information about customers), CmpInfo (i.e., information regarding competitiveness), MktResp (i.e., responsiveness to collected market-related information) and Coord (i.e., coordination among different business units of the firm). The first-order components of market-scanning capability construct provide a theoretical understanding useful to the practitioners who want to design the business processes to revamp the market-scanning capability of their organizations.

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