Electrochemistry News Items & Facts - January 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 January 2026:

1. Electrical stimulation of the hypoglossal nerve in the upper airway has been demonstrated as a method to treat sleep apnea, using 100 microsecond voltage pulses between 2-4V.
   

2. Most general purpose portable metal detectors use a single, fixed detecting frequency typically around 6 kHz to 20 kHz, but more advanced models use multiple frequencies.
   

3. In 2022, the estimated global manufacturing capacity of Li-ion batteries was estimated to be a maximum possible 985 GWh, but the actual full-year delivered capacity in 2022 was 757 GWh.
   

4. Faraday Cups are the oldest type of detector in mass spectrometers. When ions strike the cup, electrons flow through the circuit to neutralize the ions. This effect is then measured to produce a result.
   

5. In 2021, the world mined 280,000 metric tons of rare earth elements. This is roughly 32x as much as was mined in the mid-1950s.