A Portable Potentiostat for Three-Electrode Electrochemical Sensor

Abstract

This article reports a portable potentiostat based on a three-electrode electrochemical measurement system, which can be powered and communicated through the OTG interface of a smartphone. The system includes the design of the board-level potentiostat circuit, the generation of excitation in common forms required in electrochemical reactions, and the design of signal capture and analysis circuits. The potentiostat applies the positive and negative step-shaped excitations generated by the excitation generating circuit between the working electrode and the reference electrode stably. Through special excitation methods, the stripping current measured by the working electrode is consistent with that of a large electrochemical workstation. By simulating the classical three-electrode electrochemical solution environment impedance model, the constant potential error of the potentiostat was finally tested to be below 30mV through the detection circuit.