Electrochemistry News Items & Facts - February 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 February 2025:

1. Cells in the heart’s sinoatrial node are what set the pace for one’s heartbeat, using Ca+ ions to create action potential signals that range from -60 mV to +10 mV and back.
   

2. When the heart’s sinoatrial node isn’t functioning properly, a pacemaker is implanted into the heart to stabilize abnormal rhythms with batteries which last 10-15 years.
   

3. Over one million cardiac pacemakers are implanted every year around the world, of which approximately 200,000 are implanted in the United States.
   

4. The leadless pacemaker, which is 90% smaller than a transvenous pacemaker, in a self-contained generator and electrode system implanted directly into the right ventricle.
   

5. Graphene tattoos placed over two major arteries in the wrist can continuously monitor blood pressure by measure the impedance of electrical current through tissue.