Electrochemistry News Items & Facts - August 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 August 2024:

1. Annual corrosion costs for water distribution systems within the USA were reported as high as $36 billion USD in a 2002 report. The costs were attributable to replacing aging infrastructure, corrosion inhibitor investments, application of protective coatings, and cathodic protection.
   

2. Kirigami-inspired laser folding is used to self fold 2D-printed circuit boards into 3D structures useful for prototyping electronics that need 3D features, for example antennas.
   

3. Perovskite-based photovoltaic solar panel manufacturing is being refined with machine-learning models, with one Bayesian optimization technique reaching 18.5% power conversion efficiency.
   

4. In an effort to reduce electronic waste, the European Union will require all purchasable smartphones and other portable electronics which require plug-in charging (minus laptops) to use USB-C ports by the end of 2024.
   

5. Light emitting polymers are based on the use of C-based polymers as the semiconductor material in LEDs, and were discovered in 1990 by researchers at the University of Cambridge.