Electrochemistry News Items & Facts - November 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 November 2025:

1. Electric vehicles in the USA reduced the country’s gasoline consumption by 0.54% in 2021, and in 2021 electric vehicle charging accounted for 0.15% of all electricity consumption in the USA.
   

2. Michael Faraday defined much of the language used in electrochemistry, being the first to define terms like anode, cathode, and electrolyte.
   

3. Researchers recently synthesized copper sulfate nanocrystals to perform “infrared upconversion” of typically wasted infrared light into visible light to drive a chemical reaction to produce hydrogen fuel from methanol.
   

4. Modern seatbelts include a pretensioner with two electrodes wired to a motion sensing processor that applies current when triggered to ignite a gas piston which will instantaneously tighten the belt in a crash.
   

5. In 585 BCE, Thales of Miletus documented the attraction ability of amber stones to attract feathers or bits of paper when rubbed with wool, now known as static cling.