“…Because of the toxicity of mercury and environmental regulations, however, mercury-free electrodes were developed. 2,[13][14][15] One of environmentally friendly electrodes, which is comparable to mercury electrodes, is the bismuth-film electrode (BiFE), as pioneered by Wang and coworker. 16 Its attractive properties include high sensitivity, well-defined and highly reproducible stripping signal, good resolution of neighboring peaks, low background characteristics, a large cathodic working potential range, and being insensitive to dissolved oxygen, which eliminates the time-consuming de-oxygenation step.…”