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However, standard reference electrodes are rather large and do not always fit within electrochemical cells designed for the determination of analytes in low-volume aliquots. Therefore, various designs and improvements in reference electrodes are critical for the future development of electrochemical biosensors and other bioelectrochemical devices. In this study, we explain a procedure to apply common laboratory polyacrylamide hydrogel in a semipermeable junction membrane between the Ag\/AgCl reference electrode and the electrochemical cell. During this research, we have created disposable, easily scalable, and reproducible membranes suitable for the design of reference electrodes. Thus, we came up with castable semipermeable membranes for reference electrodes. Performed experiments highlighted the most suitable gel formation conditions to achieve optimal porosity. Here, Cl\u2212 ion diffusion through the designed polymeric junctions was evaluated. The designed reference electrode was also tested in a three-electrode flow system. The results show that home-built electrodes can compete with commercial products due to low reference electrode potential deviation (~3 mV), long shelf-life (up to six months), good stability, low cost, and disposability. The results show a high response rate, which makes in-house formed polyacrylamide gel junctions good membrane alternatives in the design of reference electrodes, especially for these applications where high-intensity dyes or toxic compounds are used and therefore disposable electrodes are required.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23052510","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,24]],"date-time":"2023-02-24T02:03:26Z","timestamp":1677204206000},"page":"2510","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Development of a Disposable Polyacrylamide Hydrogel-Based Semipermeable Membrane for Micro Ag\/AgCl Reference Electrode"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Eivydas","family":"Andriukonis","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Research Institute Center for Physical and Technological Sciences, Sauletekio Ave. 3, 10257 Vilnius, Lithuania"}]},{"given":"Marius","family":"Butkevicius","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Bioanalysis, Institute of Biochemistry, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Sauletekio Ave. 7, 10257 Vilnius, Lithuania"}]},{"given":"Povilas","family":"Simonis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Research Institute Center for Physical and Technological Sciences, Sauletekio Ave. 3, 10257 Vilnius, Lithuania"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0885-3556","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Arunas","family":"Ramanavicius","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Research Institute Center for Physical and Technological Sciences, Sauletekio Ave. 3, 10257 Vilnius, Lithuania"},{"name":"Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Geosciences, Vilnius University, Naugarduko Str. 24, 03225 Vilnius, Lithuania"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Andriukonis, E., Celiesiute-Germaniene, R., Ramanavicius, S., Viter, R., and Ramanavicius, A. 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