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Electrochemical polymerisation of organic compounds is a simple and attractive method for immobilizing an enzyme at an electrode surface. An approach that is both experimental and mathematical is presented to explain the behaviour of an electrode modified by entrapment of a glucose oxidase in a polypyrrole film. The model was based on the resolution of the differential mass balance equations involving non-linear homogeneous catalysis. Evaluation of various assumptions such as the variation of the mass transport features inside the film and the occurrence of heterogeneous catalysis, led to the conclusion that the enzyme was non — uniformly distributed throughout the electropolymerised film.
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Gros, P., Bergel, A., Comtat, M. (1995). Modelling of a Polypyrrole Modified Electrode. In: Lapicque, F., Storck, A., Wragg, A.A. (eds) Electrochemical Engineering and Energy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2514-1_18
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