Widely parallel active potentiostat for accelerating electrochemical experiments (PACTIOSTAT)

In PACTIOSTAT, which is a collaborative effort between UGent and KU Leuven, we want to further develop our unique high throughput potentiostat array and its software. This array enables high throughput electrochemical analysis of electroactive microorganisms, and it consists of 3 parts: the widely parallel potentiostat, a custom made electrode array (microelectrodes) and a dedicated software enabling tailored analyses. Recently we have performed the proof of concept in which 128 experiments were parallellized leading to a massive acceleration of throughput, our aim is thus to bring this technology to the next phase, ready for both industrial and academic market. The project will be executed together with project partner KUL where production of the potentiostats and software will be taken up using a similar and coupled project funded by KUL. Within the UGent part of PACTIOSTAT we will perform the validation/exploration experiments for the different target markets of health, materials and sensing as well as provide market exploration to identify the willingness to pay and to develop the best go-to-market strategy.