Electrochemistry News Items & Facts - January 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 January 2025:

1. The human body detects pressure applied to skin through “mechanoreceptors” which transmit voltage signals (action potentials) from point of contract to the brain and spinal cord.
   

2. Synthetic skin made of conductive hydrogels can generate voltage and current signals when touched via a “piezoionic effect” similar to the mechanoreceptors in our skin.
   

3. The Palo Verde tree, native to the Sonoran Desert (home of Admiral Instruments!) is green because its bark is equipped with chlorophyll to conduct much of the plant’s photosynthesis in times of drought.
   

4. Cubic boron arsenide is being studied as a successor to silicon as the primary ingredient in electronics, given its 10x higher thermal conductivity and better electron mobility.
   

5. The Scanning Tunneling Microscope in a non-optical, electron-based microscope invented in 1981 which uses a tunneling current and measures movement of its metal tip.