Design and application of a multipurpose universal high voltage incubator

It can be said that a commercial incubator is used in almost all scientific studies in which electric fields are applied to cell cultures under incubator conditions. This necessitates the use of test systems and electrodes that can fit inside a commercial incubator. For this reason, when the studies in the literature are examined, it is seen that the commercial incubator dimensions used in the studies require special design of the test system and electrodes. These restrictions can also narrow the boundaries of scientific study. Such that, due to the limitation of the internal volume of the commercial incubator used in scientific studies, the voltage values that can be applied to the sample cannot exceed a certain level. In this study, a multi-purpose universal system is introduced in which high voltages up to 100 kVpp can be applied to cell cultures or food samples under temperature, humidity and CO2 controlled incubator conditions. The system also allows the generation and application of pulsed electric fields up to 11.2 kV. The developed and proposed system is named as “High Voltage Incubator”. © 2024 Gazi Universitesi. All rights reserved.