Electrochemistry News Items & Facts - November 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 November 2024:

1. Triniobiumoctabromide (Nb3Br8) becomes more conductive as it is made into thinner sheets, which is the opposite of how conductivity normally works in materials.
   

2. Phytoplankton live in the oceans, obtain energy through photosynthesis, and are responsible for producing an estimated 80% of the world’s oxygen.
   

3. “Wigner crystals” describe when electrons form a patterned structure as a result of electrons slowing movement to the point where their negative charge repels one another.
   

4. The reduction in aerosol pollution from the pandemic lockdown period corresponded with an 8% average decrease in lightning strikes around the world’s population centers.
   

5. Monochloramine is used to disinfect drinking water without forming harmful disinfection byproducts formed by chlorine, but it is blamed for corroding lead pipes.