Desenvolvimento de potenciostatos para caracterização de células eletroquímicas

Abstract

Electronic devices for applications in the field of electronic instrumentation in the offshoot of analytical chemistry research have great interest in the field of research related to the academic environment, as well as in the industrial environment. With the objective of extracting information and relevant data of chemical compounds, both from the qualitative point of view, as well as from the quantitative point of view, it is necessary in electrochemical analyzes, the presence of specific electrochemical sensors connected to electronic circuits, thus forming Electrochemical systems designed with the purpose of processing and extracting data information related to the physico-chemical effects occurring on the surface of the sensor due to reactions in the chemical substance or compound of interest in a particular analysis. This work deals with the research, study and development of topologies of electronic circuits, known as potentiostat, having as main objective, the task of conditioning of electrical signals from an electrochemical sensor, called electrochemical cell of three electrodes. The results demonstrated in this work are concentrated in the graphs of electrical voltages and currents, directly related to the chemical parameters of a sample under analysis, being these results obtained through experimental tests, applying the cyclic voltammetry method. Experimental tests were performed with circuit topologies connected to a cell, for the analysis of data obtained and validation of proposed potentiostat circuit topologies.