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xii PREFACE

This second edition of Analytical Electrochemistry is extensively revised and
updated, and re¯ects the rapid growth of electroanalytical chemistry during the
1990s. It contains a number of new topics, including self-assembled monolayers,
DNA biosensors, sol-gel surface modi®cation, detection for capillary electrophor-
esis, single molecule detection, and micromachined analyzers (``Lab-on-a-Chip'').
Other topics such as the fundamentals of faradaic processes, principles of potentio-
metric measurements, spectroelectrochemistry, modi®ed and microelectrodes, scan-
ning electron microscopy, electrical communication between redox enzymes and
electrodes, and enzyme and immunoelectrodes, have been greatly expanded. The
entire text has been updated to cover the very latest (as of 1999) developments in
electroanalytical chemistry. Numerous new worked examples and end-of-chapter
questions have been added to this edition. The organization of the book has been
changed somewhat, by moving the study of electrode reactions forward to Chapter 2.
In the ®ve years since the ®rst edition I received numerous suggestions, many of
which have been incorporated in the second edition.

Finally, I wish to thank my wife, Ruth, and my daughter, Sharon, for their love
and patience; the editorial and production staff of Wiley Inc. for their help and
support; and the numerous electrochemists across the globe who led to the advances
reported in this textbook. Thank you all!

Joseph Wang
Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S.A.