A general view of the electroanalytical applications of metal-nanoparticles in the last decade is discussed in this review. The electrocatalytical properties of various metal-nanoparticles, the employment of nanoparticles in electrochemical sensors and the use of colloidal gold as electrochemical label (no other metal nanoparticle was found to act as a label in electrochemistry) are described. Also, a description of the fabrication and electrochemical characterization of metal-nanoparticle modified electrodes is given. Finally, due to its growing importance, semiconductor-nanoparticle modified electrodes are described, although they can not be strictly considered as electroanalytical devices.
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Hernández‐Santos et al. (2002) studied this question.