@nipun.0092 (AC staff scientist in Polymer lab) tested out the training lab’s SquidStat Solo potentiostat. Here is some feedback from the usage.
- The GUI is relatively simple to use, and the potentiostat has a decent compliance limit. The GUI has quite a few quality-of-life options, like setting hard limits on the allowed voltage and current range to prevent side reactions to things from going awry
- The form factor of the potentiostat is small, and that makes it relatively adaptable to confined spaces
- The squidstat can support most measurements that one might require
- Exporting data is quite simple
I’ve not tried data analysis with the GUI, so I can’t talk about that yet
It’s being tested with a photoreactor setup created by @OwenMelville (see How to make a photo-reactor?) for some photoelectrocatalysis experiments:
Credit to @nisfisker for recommending squidstat. The polymer lab has later plans for using it with the Python API, which @nisfisker has done on many an occasion.
See the video below:
