Electrochemistry News Items & Facts - September 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 September 2025:

1. Most stoplights use a coil of wire embedded in asphalt to detect the change in inductance when a steel object enters its magnetic field, causing a measurable rise in inductance which signals the presence of a vehicle at the stoplight.
   

2. In 2021, about 4.11 trillion kWh of electricity was generated at utility-scale facilities in the USA. 61% cam from fossil fuels, 19% from nuclear, and 20% from renewables. An additional 49 billion kWh of electricity generation came from small-scale photovoltaic systems, which represents about 1.2% of the amount generated by utility-scale sources..
   

3. The Koren Helmet, also known as God Helmet, is a curious apparatus which uses a series of 4 coils and digital-to-analog converters to apply complex electromagnetic fields to stimulate the brain’s temporal lobes, thus inducing the sense of a vague presence for those who wear the helmet.
   

4. Qatar Airways and aircraft manufacturer Airbus experienced a $600,000,000 USD legal battle over paint issues on the Airbus A350, with claims of degraded paint coatings causing corrosion on the aircraft’s lightning protection systems.
   

5. Pulse charging for EV batteries can reduce charging times by 5-20% without impacting battery lifespan, with pulse frequencies typically ranging from 200 mHz to 13 kHz.