Electrochemistry News Items & Facts - December 2024

Every day, we all use battery powered devices at home, drive vehicles, eat packaged foods, and drink clean water. These are a few examples of the countless aspects of our modern lifestyles which are reliant on electrochemistry - broadly defined as the study of how electricity interacts with materials.

As an electrochemistry instrumentation company, Admiral Instruments proudly serves our customers who are among the millions of scientists, engineers, & technicians around the world using potentiostats and battery cyclers to uncover new ways electrochemistry may benefit us all.

To celebrate how electrochemistry has shaped the past, touches our present-day lives, and influences the future, every month Admiral Instruments posts five notable news articles, publications, & trivia somehow related to electrochemistry. Click on each entry to read more from the source article!

Electrochemistry News Items & Facts for December 2024:

1. In lithium ion battery cell manufacturing, the formation process (also known as battery cycling) is the most significant electricity consumer, accounting for approximately 50% of total electricity consumption during the manufacturing process.
   

2. The capacitance of the human body is 100-200 pF, which correlates to an impedance of 13 MOhm at 60 Hz, or a minimum of 9 µA at 120 VAC to ground.
   

3. Piezoelectric devices, which convert mechanical movement into electricity, are in development as self-powered concussion monitors in sports applications.
   

4. Betavoltaic batteries are devices which convert the decay energy of beta radiation sources into electricity using transducers, and are notable for their long service life.
   

5. A ceramic-based glucose fuel cell, just 400 nm thick, generates around 43 µW/cm2 which is the highest power density of any glucose fuel cell under ambient conditions.