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CheapStat: An Open-Source, “Do-It-Yourself” Potentiostat for Analytical and Educational Applications

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  • Aaron A Rowe
  • Andrew J Bonham
  • Ryan J White
  • Michael P Zimmer
  • Ramsin J Yadgar
  • Tony M Hobza
  • Jim W Honea
  • Ilan Ben-Yaacov
  • Kevin W Plaxco

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Although potentiostats are the foundation of modern electrochemical research, they have seen relatively little application in resource poor settings, such as undergraduate laboratory courses and the developing world. One reason for the low penetration of potentiostats is their cost, as even the least expensive commercially available laboratory potentiostats sell for more than one thousand dollars. An inexpensive electrochemical workstation could thus prove useful in educational labs, and increase access to electrochemistry-based analytical techniques for food, drug and environmental monitoring. With these motivations in mind, we describe here the CheapStat, an inexpensive (

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  • Aaron A Rowe & Andrew J Bonham & Ryan J White & Michael P Zimmer & Ramsin J Yadgar & Tony M Hobza & Jim W Honea & Ilan Ben-Yaacov & Kevin W Plaxco, 2011. "CheapStat: An Open-Source, “Do-It-Yourself” Potentiostat for Analytical and Educational Applications," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 6(9), pages 1-7, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0023783
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023783
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