The interfacial behavior of electrodes fabricated from carbon film resistors of 2 and 20 W in supporting electrolyte solutions of varying pH used in electroanalytical experiments has been characterized by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy with complementary cyclic voltammetric experiments. Equivalent circuits are proposed to fit the experimental data and the influence of electrode pretreatment has also been investigated.

A sensitive voltammetric method is presented for the determination of tract levels of Mn (II) using carbon film electrodes fabricated from carbon resistors of 2 Omega. Determination of manganese was made by square wave cathodic stripping voltammetry (CSV), with deposition of manganese as manganese dioxide. Chronoamperometric experiments were made to study MnO(2) nucleation and growth. As a result, it was found to be necessary to perform electrode conditioning at a more positive potential to initiate MnO(2) nucleation. Under optimised conditions the detection limit obtained was 4 nM and the relative standard deviation for eight measurements of 0.22 nM was 5.3%. Interferences from various metal ions on the response CSV of Mn(II) were investigated, namely Cd(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), Cr(VI), Pb(II), Zn(II) and Fe(II). Application to environmental samples was demonstrated.

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