Team:UC Davis/Potentiostat Design Software

A potentiostat is an instrument capable of maintaining a voltage bias between electrodes. The bias encourages diffusion but more importantly the transfer of electrons which are recorded, and ultimately related to the species present in solution. When faced with the decision to buy or build our potentiostat, we found that the available solutions did not fit our needs. We decided to create our own. We developed an abstract and found a microcontroller with a 16-bit ADC (13 bit ENOB). We then designed, modeled, built and tested our potentiostat under a range of conditions. We went on to create a catalog of prototypes. The final product is the OliView potentiostat: The first arduino-compatible potentiostat to incorporate a 16-bit ADC.