Electrochemistry News Items & Facts - March 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 March 2025:

1. The Moon’s surface dust particles accumulates positive charge on the sunny side and negative charge on the dark side, creating electrostatic potentials as high as 4500 Volts.
   

2. Flexible carbon nanotubes woven into the outer layer of spacesuits are being used to create an electric field to repel charged dust particles to keep the suite clean.
   

3. Efforts to standardize the way Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) data is collected on two types of ceramic electrolyte pellets led to deviations of less than 3.1% across datasets from three different labs.
   

4. The Haber-Bosch process, where nitrogen and hydrogen molecules react to form ammonia, accounts for 1.4% of CO2 emissions and uses 1% of the world’s produced energy.
   

5. An improved electrochemical lithium mediated N2 reduction reaction yields ammonia 100x more efficiently by changing the electrolyte and improving Faradaic efficiency.