Electrochemistry News Items & Facts - December 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 December 2025:

1. “Dynamic” RAM is fundamentally different from other electronic memory types in that it uses transistors to charge and discharge large collections of capacitors to store logic bits.
   

2. In 1786, Luigi Galvani accidentally discovered the concept of bioelectricity by studying the physical reactions of frog spinal cords to electric current.
   

3. The oldest material on Earth’s surface is zircon, a mineral which formed 4.37 billion years ago and has unique uranium to lead radioactive decay properties which can be exploited for aging determinations.
   

4. A thermovoltaic cell with 40% energy conversion efficiency is the first solid-state heat engine to convert infrared light into electrical energy more efficiently than a turbine.
   

5. Spectralon is a fluoropolymer with the highest diffuse reflectance of any material, reflecting >99% over a range from 400-1500 nm and >95% from 250-2500 nm.