Electrochemistry News Items & Facts - July 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 July 2024:

1. Iridium is the most corrosion-resistant element on the periodic table (and the most dense) which makes it ideal to use as a material standard for weight calibrations.
   

2. When two electrodes are placed in a flame, a potential can be measured that is similar in magnitude to the potential measured from a salt solution electrolyte.
   

3. In 1991, Nissan unveiled the FEV concept car which featured nickel-cadmium batteries, a solar PV roof to recharge onboard controls, and a 20-second 0-100 km/h acceleration. This accomplishment came five years before the famous EV1 was created by GM.
   

4. The world's smallest self-folding origami bird is 60 microns wide and was made with voltage-driver shape memory complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistors.
   

5. Researchers in Switzerland piloted a 5 kW solar fuel production system which collects atmospheric carbon dioxide and water vapor from the air and converts it into methanol or kerosene with a 0.8% conversion efficiency.