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Integrating CVs:

How and Why Gamry Instruments’ software integrates a CV scan via a trapezoidal numerical method, and always integrates current with respect to time. This means that when a CV is displayed as voltage versus current, “behind the scenes” the software still pulls current and time columns from the data file. Hence the units that are generated from integration are always coulombs, regardless of the units shown on the plot on your screen.

Why integrate?

Integrating CVs gives you the amount of charge passed during a scan. This could be the amount of charge for a Faradaic reaction such as a redox active film or non-Faradaic reaction such as double-layer capacitance. This technical note gives a quick explanation on how to integrate in Echem Analyst.

Read the article and look at some examples