Electrochemistry News Items & Facts - August 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 August 2025:

1. The resistivity of most diamonds is 10^11 to 10^18 Ω.m, but the exception is natural blue diamond which gets its color from boron impurities thus making it a semiconductor. 
   

2. Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) has been successfully demonstrated as a method for quantifying the mineral content of bone as it heals, using a scanning frequency range between 1 Hz and 100 kHz.
   

3. Researchers recently developed a cellulose-based nanopaper as a substrate for electronic circuited which can be screen printed with zinc oxide and is readily recyclable. 
   

4. Electrophorus voltai, a species of electric eel, can emit an AC signal at 860V (the highest of any animal) but the current is only around 1A and not dangerous to healthy humans.
   

5. In the USA between 2010 and 2019, approximately 70,000 children younger than 18 years old visited emergency rooms for battery-related health emergencies, with ingestion of coin cells accounting for 85% of visits.