Electrochemistry News Items & Facts - March 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 March 2026:

1. Semiconductors are traditionally manufactured on a single piece of silicon known as “monolithic” but defects lead to whole chips being downgraded or just discarded entirely.
   

2. Researchers recently published a perovskite-based photoelectrochemical system that simultaneously converts carbon dioxide and PET plastic waste into useful products.
   

3. In 2023, Ford Motor Company reported that the wiring harnessing for the Mustang Mach-E is 1.6 km longer than it needs to be, making it over 30 kg heavier and costing an extra $300 per battery pack.
   

4. Electrochemical gas sensors are the dominant technology used in carbon monoxide detectors for residential and commercial applications.
   

5. To improve integrated circuit yields from monolithic manufacturing, “chiplets” are used as building blocks. A 360 mm2 monolithic die will yield 15%, while a 4-chiplet design increases yield to 37%.