The PARSTAT 3000A-DX Bipotentiostat is an advanced electrochemical instrument that allows simultaneous control and measurement of potential and current at two working electrodes. It is ideal for applications such as RRDE experiments, redox cycling studies, and sensor development. It features two independent channels and offers high accuracy and measurement speed.
Description
PARSTAT 3000A-DX
Princeton Applied Research is excited to be offering a solution to researchers requiring a true bipotentiostat – an instrument that can independently control two different working electrodes in the same cell with separate or shared reference and counter electrodes. Hardware synchronization is a must for accurate data interpretation, while a floating ground is required for electrical isolation between each working electrode. The PARSTAT 3000A-DX offers both, while its dual-channel design also makes it perfectly suited for running two asynchronous experiments on separate electrochemical cells.
A bipotentiostat, such as the PARSTAT 3000A-DX, is imperative for studies involving rotating ring disk electrodes (RRDE). This hydrodynamic technique quickly reaches steady state conditions, thereby eliminating the contribution from double-layer charging, and the associated theory is well defined. Typical RRDE experiments are often referred to as generator/collector experiments where the Disk reaction generates a product that can be collected at the Ring. This collection efficiency can be used to gain insight into the reaction pathway(s) and related rate constants. The research areas that employ RRDE are expansive, with the most prominent being the evaluation of oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalysts for developing new and improving existing fuel cell designs.
Additional bipotentiostat applications include:
🔴 Electrochemical sensor development
🔵 Dual channel sensors for selective and simultaneous detection of two analytes
🔵 Generator-collector or redox cycling-based sensors for signal amplification
🔴 Determination of reaction mechanisms
🔵 Electrodeposition / electroplating processes like Cu Damascene
🔵 Detection of short-lived species and elucidation of the primary reaction pathway
🔴 Electrocatalyst evaluation
🔵 Hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), methanol/ethanol oxidation reaction electrocatalysts for fuel cells
Highlights
Combining a high current channel and a high voltage channel into a single, compact system, each with on-board EIS capability, then adding extreme low current resolution to one channel and 6-WIRE auxiliary voltage measurement to another, along with data acquisition rates up to 1000 kS/sec, make the PARSTAT 3000A-DX the highest performing bipotentiostat/galvanostat on the market. These features are available whether utilizing the PARSTAT 3000A-DX as a traditional bipotentiostat or a dual-channel instrument running two asynchronous experiments on two individual electrochemical cells.
☑️ Bipotentiostat with hardware synchronization provides the best coordination for RRDE experiments for Fuel Cell Catalyst evaluation.
☑️ 2 high performance, independent potentiostats with EIS in a single chassis
☑️ Combines high voltage channel (30 Volts) and high current channel (2 Amps) for application flexibility
☑️ Easy-to-use VersaStudio software included
VersaStudio software
The PARSTAT 3000A-DX bipotentiostat/galvanostat is controlled using Princeton Applied Research’s popular VersaStudio software. VersaStudio software combines functionality – it is used to control various Princeton Applied Research potentiostats/galvanostats (VersaSTAT series, PARSTAT 4000A, PARSTAT 3000A, and PARSTAT MC) – ease-of-use – it offers flexible experimental setup, simple data comparison, and convenient data analysis and fitting routines – and accessibility – it is free to download from our website without the need for registration.
IDEAL FOR
✅ RRDE (Rotating Ring Disk Electrode) experiments
✅ Redox Cycling studies
✅ Sensor development and evaluation
✅ Simultaneous control and analysis of electrochemical reactions at two electrodes
✅ Battery and energy storage system studies
✅ Corrosion and wettability analysis of materials
✅ Research in fuel cell technologies and catalysts
✅ Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) experiments
✅ Studies on electrode interactions with different media and solutions
FEATURES
| Specification | PARSTAT 3000A-DX |
|---|---|
| Compliance Voltage | ± 30 V (Channel 2) |
| Max Current Output | ± 2 A (Channel 1) |
| Min Current Range | ± 4 nA (122 fA resolution) |
| down to ± 4 pA (122 aA) (Ch 1) | |
| EIS Maximum Frequency | 7 MHz, Included (Ch 2) |
| 1 MHz, Included (Ch 1) | |
| DAC Output for Rotator Speed Control | Supplied, DB9 |
| Software | VersaStudio, Fully Enabled; VersaStudio Developers Kit (VDK) |
| Synchronization Strategy | Hardware Synchronization |
| Special Features | 6-WIRE Auxiliary Voltage |
