Electrochemistry News Items & Facts - February 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 February 2026:

1. Electro-acupuncture involves the application of 10-80 mA pulses at 40-80 V to acupuncture needles for typically 10-20 minutes for treatment of neurological conditions.
   

2. Nuclear waste storage strategies, for example vitrification (mixing into glass) of liquid waste and concrete cylinder storage of solid fuel rods, are at risk of corrosion-related failure modes.
   

3. Researchers recently discovered that the PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) tape used to hold Li-ion battery components together commonly decomposes internally and creates self-discharging conditions.
   

4. Prussian Blue nanoparticles can be used to extract gold and platinum group metals from electronic waste much more efficiently than conventional bio-based absorbents.
   

5. Prussian Blue is known as the first modern synthetically-produced pigment, and was featured heavily in Van Gogh’s Starry Night and paintings during Picasso’s Blue Period.