Electrochemistry News Items & Facts - May 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 May 2025:

1. Antiferroelectric materials have electric dipoles oriented in opposing directions, which is being studied to shrink the size of capacitors by 100x but still maintaining the same energy density.
   

2. Aluminum is the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust, and the third most abundant of all elements in the crust after oxygen (O) and silicon (Si). Aluminum accounts for 8% of Earth’s solid surface by weight.
   

3. NASA’s DART asteroid redirection spacecraft used the NEXT-C ion propulsion drive to electrostatically accelerate xenon ions up to 90,000 miles per hour. The electric fields used for acceleration are generated by electrodes positioned at the downstream end of the thruster.
   

4. Several UL and UN testing certifications require Li-ion batteries to pass G-force testing consisting of a 150G crash test where its velocity goes from 9 m/s to 0 m/s in 6 milliseconds to reach 150G deceleration.
   

5. Babcock Ranch, a 2,000 home community in Florida which calls itself America’s first solar powered town, is powered by 700,000 photovoltaic panels and battery storage systems and avoided loss of power or water services during Hurricane Ian in 2022.