Electrochemistry News Items & Facts - April 2026

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 2026:

1. A 1 micrometer thick layer of silicon oxide was demonstrated to protect space-based perovskite photovoltaic cells against radiation, reducing the weight of radiation barriers by 99%.
   

2. In the mid to late 1700s, “Electrical Parties” were a trend where groups would convene to have electrical demonstrations performed, for example moving paper with static electricity.
   

3. Copper and copper alloy surfaces exhibit antibacterial properties due to Cu+ ions replacing Fe in iron-sulfur enzyme clusters, and by forming reactive oxygen species.
   

4. “Ionic circuits” rely on the manipulation of ions in liquid to process information, and the diversity of ionic species can be harnessed for matrix multiplication in neural nets.
   

5. The “Capacitor Plague” refers to a period between 1999 and 2007 when aluminum electrolytic capacitors were failing at high rates due to faulty electrolyte composition.