Today (22 September) marks the birthday of Michael Faraday, a chemist and physicist who made significant contributions to the study of electrochemistry. He’s responsible for popularising many of the terms we use in electrochemistry today, such as anode and cathode, as well as his eponymous laws of electrolysis.
Superconducting materials, capable of conducting electricity without resistance, have fascinated scientists for over a century. They’ve also been in the news recently as scientists hunt an elusive room-temperature superconductor which could transform civilisation. The latest edition of Periodic Graphics in C&EN examines what superconductors are, how they’ve been found, and how we use them. View the full graphic on the C&EN site.
The current energy crisis has re-energised conversations around the switch to renewable resources. Solar panels are one of the options, so in this month’s edition of Periodic Graphics in Chemical & Engineering News, we take a look at how these panels generate electricity and some of the present and potential materials used in them. View the full graphic on the C&EN site.
