Electrochemistry News Items & Facts - April 2025

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 April 2025:

1. Compound semiconductors combining two or more elements (SiC, GaAs) use less energy than single-element semiconductors like Si to detect, store, and transmit data.
   

2. “Urbach Energy” is a parameter that expresses the optoelectronic performance potential of a semiconductor, giving more realistic power conversion efficiency limits.
   

3. From 2012-2021, there was one Tesla vehicle fire per around 210 million miles traveled. The USA average for vehicle fires is 1 per 19 million miles traveled, an 11:1 ratio.
   

4. Titanium is immune to microbiologically influenced corrosion that is normally caused by aerobic or anaerobic organisms affecting the kinetics of corrosion processes.
   

5. Filling pores of fired bricks with PEDOT, a type of conductive plastic, can enable the bricks to store charge like a capacitor and cycler 10,000 times before significant fade.