Economic

The scientific community and UN have come up with a recommendation of no new Carbon emissions added beyond year 2050. How much can we emit until that time?

What if there is a blue print to help reverse global climate change? What can we do in our day to day life to help reduce carbon emissions? While these questions may prove to be at the scale of solving world hunger, Paul Hawken and team had taken a shot at answering these questions.

Be it an energy generating cell or an energy consuming cell, efficiency of an electrochemical cell has traditionally been looked at as a product of voltage efficiency and current efficiency. Voltage efficiency takes care of the impact of ohmic losses in electrode and electrolyte, polarization losses at the electrode due to charge transfer reaction and polarization losses due to mass transfer limitations. Current efficiency takes care of the impact of parasitic reactions and the effective utilization of reactants. Can there be additional energy loss leading to efficiency loss that is not captured in either via voltage or via current efficiency?

One of the key application areas of electrochemistry is in the field of Sensors. There have been several different gas sensors developed using electrochemical principles. The sensors can either be potentiometric, meaning measuring voltage as a response to varying gas concentration or be amperometric, meaning measuring current as a response to varying gas concentration.