News in the world of Electrochemistry including shows, conferences, short courses and electrochemical related press releases
An all new webinar has been scheduled – “Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy and its Applications to Battery Analysis” When: Wednesday April 29, 2015 What Time: 10:00 a.m. EDT USA / 4:00 p.m. CET Europe / 10:00 p.m. China Duration: 1 hour This webinar will focus on the following key topics: What is impedance spectroscopy? What can Read more about EIS Applications to Battery Analysis[…]
Corrosion: Fundamentals and Experimental Methods Registration is now open for the 2015 Corrosion Short Course being held at Penn State University Park Campus June 7-12th. The course, now in it’s 19th year, will cover the fundamentals of corrosion and various electrochemical techniques. Lectures and laboratories will be used to illustrate how electrochemical techniques are applied, Read more about Penn State University Corrosion Short Course[…]
Crystals reveal the answer: Detecting drugs with a quartz crystal microbalance Balancing in the heat A novel type of high temperature quartz crystal disc could make the perfect detector for small, portable gas chromatography (GC) systems, say US researchers. Such quartz crystal discs form the centrepiece of quartz crystal microbalances (QCMs), which are widely used Read more about Detecting Drugs with QCM[…]
Philadelphia, PA, January 27, 2015 – Gamry Instruments is proud to once again sponsor the EIS (Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy) Short Course. The spring 2015 course is being held April 20-24 2015 in Houston, TX.
IMAGE COURTESY OF INSIDE EVS
The first thing you notice about the Mirai, Toyota’s new $62,000, four-door family sedan, is that it’s no Camry, an international symbol of bland conformity. First there are the in-your-face, angular grilles on the car’s front end. These deliver air to (and cool) a polymer fuel-cell stack under the hood. Then there’s the wavy, layered sides, meant to evoke a droplet of water. It looks like it was driven off the set of the Blade Runner sequel.
October 7, 2014 By Nanalyze
The world is addicted to crude oil. Every day we consume around 90 million barrels or 3.8 billion gallons of crude oil, 84% of which is used for energy production. The other 16% is used as a raw material to create a multitude of other chemical products such as pharmaceuticals, solvents, fertilizers, pesticides, and plastics. But the need for crude oil as a feedstock may begin diminishing over time as disruptive technologies begin to mature. Companies are developing alternatives to using crude to manufacture chemicals, companies such as Genomatica, which has delivered synthetic organisms that represent the industry’s first commercial bio-based process for producing a high-volume intermediate chemical without the need for crude. This process called GENO BDO produced 5 million pounds of Butanediol (BDO) in 2012 (about 100 truckloads sold and shipped) and has now been licensed by the world’s #1 producer of BDO, BASF. Another company looking to create an intermediate chemical using environmentally friendly feedstock instead of crude oil is Liquid Light.
About Liquid Light
Founded in 2009, New Jersey based Liquid Light has taken in $23.5 million in funding so far from the likes of VantagePoint Capital Partners, BP Ventures, Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital, and Osage University Partners. Liquid Light first unveiled their electrochemical production method for making chemicals in March of this year which is based on technology licensed from Princeton University. The event was highlighted in an MIT Technology Review article titled “A Cheaper Route to Making Chemicals from CO2“ which contained the following statement:
Liquid Light’s electrochemical production method for chemicals would be an appealing substitute for current petroleum-based methods, particularly for chemicals with oxygen in them, says Gary Dirks, a former BP executive and a scientific advisor to Liquid Light. “You get products that are not easy to get from oil-based hydrocarbons in a much simpler process and at lower cost,” he says.
The production method is “lower cost” because it uses waste carbon dioxide as a feedstock instead of more expensive current feedstocks used such as natural gas, crude oil, or corn.
Gamry will be holding a Workshop at the ECS Meeting in Cancun, Mexico. If you do EIS on very low impedance or very high impedance samples then you should attend Gamry’s workshop at the ECS meeting tomorrow. This workshop will cover precautions needed for analyzing very low impedance samples such as batteries and fuel cells as Read more about Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy of Difficult Samples[…]
Gamry Instruments is pleased to announce the publication of a manuscript highlighting the capabilities of the Gamry eQCM 10M. The project entitled “Application of the combined electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance and probe beam deflection technique in deep eutectic solvents” uses the EQCM/PBD method for the first time applying to metal deposition/dissolution processes in deep eutectic Read more about Combined EQCM and Probe Beam Deflection in Deep Eutectic Solvents[…]
Gamry Instruments will be an exhibitor at The European Corrosion Congress in Pisa, Italy Gamry Instruments is proud to be an exhibitor at EUROCORR 2014, the annual event of the European Federation of Corrosion Philadelphia, PA Gamry Instruments, designer and manufacturer of electrochemical instruments, will be an exhibitor at EUROCORR 2014– September 8-12, 2014 in Read more about Gamry Instruments to Exhibit at Eurocorr 2014[…]
Gamry Instruments will be an exhibitor at The International Society of Electrochemistry Meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland Gamry Instruments is proud to be an exhibitor at the 65th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry entitled Ubiquitous Electrochemistry Philadelphia, PA, Aug. 20, 2014 Gamry Instruments, designer and manufacturer of electrochemical instruments, will be an exhibitor Read more about Gamry Instruments to Attend 65th Annual ISE Meeting[…]
The 65th Annual ISE Meeting August 31 – September 5, 2014 Lausanne, Switzerland The meeting will be held in the Swiss Tech Convention Center (STCC) on the campus of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), which includes other architectural landmarks such as the Rolex Learning Center. Electrochemistry involves chemical phenomena associated with charge separation Read more about International Society of Electrochemistry Annual Meeting[…]
Detects Diseases, Measures Biomarkers, Costs $25 In advanced industrialized nations most diagnostic tests that check body fluids for markers of disease make use of specialized sensors and devices that, although they deliver accurate results, can be very expensive. Now researchers at Harvard University have unveiled a new portable device that can perform a slew of Read more about Handheld Electrochemical Sensor[…]
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