eng Science and Education Publishing World Journal of Chemical Education 2375-1657 2015-09-11 3 5 115 119 10.12691/wjce-3-5-2 WJCE2015352 article N. Aristov 1 A. Habekost a.habekost@t-online.de 1 Department of Chemistry, University of Education Ludwigsburg, Reuteallee, Ludwigsburg, Germany Three experiments are presented to introduce students to the capabilities of cyclic voltammetry (CV) for finding redox couples suitable for, e.g., battery development. The systems chosen involve only one-electron transfer, but already display complex behaviours that can be delineated with CV as being reversible, quasi-reversible, or irreversible, and the rate constants for the electron transfer can be estimated by the theory of Nicholson and Shain. http://pubs.sciepub.com/wjce/3/5/2/wjce-3-5-2.pdf third-year undergraduate analytical electrochemistry hands-on learning/manipulatives laboratory instructions