Electrochemistry News Items & Facts - July 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 July 2025:

1. In 2022, a company grew a collection of 800,000 brain cells in a lab environment and they demonstrated the cells’ ability to play the arcade game Pong through a series of electrode connections.
   

2. Eighty percent of a typical photovoltaic panel is made of recyclable materials, but only 10% of photovoltaic panels are currently being recycled.
   

3. Tomato peels, corn cobs, and wood pulp can be turned into functionalized nanoparticles that use electrostatic interactions to extract neodymium and other metals from electronic waste.
   

4. Selenium has semiconducting properties that found use in measuring light exposure times for photography, and the introduction of integrated light exposure sensors installed into cameras began in 1936.
   

5. Dry-cask cylinders used to store spent nuclear fuel are susceptible to stress corrosion cracking at welding points due to their air-cooling requirements and coastal proximity exposing the cylinders to salinity.