Polar 3.1 for Windows: electrochemical simulation and data analysis

		Dr Weiguang HUANG
124 Eastern Avenue, Kingsford, Sydney, NSW 2032, Australia			
Phone: 61 2 96620516, 0413 008 019	
mailto:polarography@bigfoot.com, showing@bigfoot.com
http://www.bigfoot.com/~polarography/
http://showing.home.ml.org 			

	It analytically and digitally simulates voltammograms and stripping
voltammograms with charge current, resistance and noise on about 20 mechanisms 
at 8 electrode geometries (planar, spherical, semi-spherical, cylindrical, 
semi-cylindrical, microdisc, thin film, and rotating electrodes) in 5 techniques 
(linear sweep and CV, DC, normal pulse, differential pulse, and squre wave
voltammetries), and outputs current, resitance, conductivity and surface 
concentration. 

	Its data analysis include detecting peak area, current and 
potential, semi-derivative, derivative, intergral, semi-intergral, 
curve fitting, and separating overlapped peaks.

	It shows tip when the user put mouse cursor over a lable. 
The progrom can separate overlapped voltammograms into individuals,
and extract real peak from voltammogram with noise and baseline. 
It outputs the theoretical peak values, the peak current and potential, and 
current-potential data, which can be imported into other program (e.g. 
MS Excel). User can copy-and-paste the voltammogram into his document.

	It has been successfully applied to fit experimental 
polarograms (voltammograms) of In(III), Cd(II), Pb(II), Tl(I), Cr(III).
Zn(II), and binuclear copper complex in aqueous and non-aqueous media 
at mercury, solid metal and non-metal electrodes (specifically the 
dropping mercury, hanging mercury drop, gold, platinum and glassy 
carbon electrodes) by various electrochemical techniques (differential 
pulse, sqware wave, and pseudo-derivative normal pulse polargraphies) 
[1].

	It runs on IBM PC under Windows 95/98/NT, available from the 
author or download from my Web site.
	
	REFERENCES
[1] W. Huang, T. Henderson, A.M. Bond and K.B. Oldham, Curve fitting 
    to resolve overlapping voltammetric peaks: model and examples, 
    Anal. Chim. Acta, 1995, 304, 1-15.