%0 Journal Article %T Eletrodo de pasta de carbono em minicavidade de contato s¨®lido %A Ferreira %A Antonio Ap. Pupim %A Ribeiro %A Sidney Jos¨¦ Lima %A Fugivara %A Cec¨ªlio Sadao %A Caiut %A Jos¨¦ Maur¨ªcio Almeida %A Sargentelli %A Vagner %A Benedetti %A Assis Vicente %J Ecl¨¦tica Qu¨ªmica %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S0100-46702011000200010 %X this work describes the preparation of carbon paste electrode (epc) in a solid-contact minicavity and its evaluation when containing carbon paste without and with sio2(eu3+ 2%) and sio2(eu3+ 2%)-lysine sub-micrometrics particles. for this study cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance measurements were performed at ph 7.4 in 0.1 mol l-1 pbs containing fe(cn)6-3/-4 redox species. the impedance results were interpretated based on a charge-transfer reaction involving fe(cn)6-3/-4 species and/or oxygen at higher frequencies and, diffusion of the electroactive species and carbon paste characteristics at lower frequencies. epc-minicavity is suitable for electroanalysis using modified carbon paste. %K carbon paste electrode %K minicavity electrode %K electrochemical methods. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0100-46702011000200010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en