“…Anodic stripping voltammetery (ASV) is recognized as an effective technique for detection of trace levels of heavy metals because of remarkably low detection limits, sensitivity, and specificity [2,3]. Although in the past years, hanging drop mercury and mercury-coated electrodes [4][5][6] have been successfully employed in ASV for metal ion detection, still there is a need to develop alternate electrodes because of toxicity, volatility, high background current, and difficulties in the determination of metals with stripping potentials more positive than that of mercury. Bi-modified or Bi-based composite modified electrodes have been used successfully as the alternatives, with comparable or superior performance than those of mercury or other alternate metal-based electrodes such as Ir, Ag, and Au [7][8][9][10].…”