Electrochemistry
Electrochemistry is a kind of chemistry that studies chemical reactions that use or make electricity. Reactions like this happen at electrodes which are made from something that conducts electricity, and put in an electrolyte. An electrolyte is a solution that has ions in it.
Electrochemistry was "invented" at the same time as the voltaic pile; the first kind of electric battery.
Electrochemistry Media
Late 1780s diagram of Galvani's experiment on frog legs.
Italian physicist Alessandro Volta showing his "battery" to French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in the early 19th century.
Sir Humphry Davy's portrait in the 19th century.
Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius portrait circa 1880s.
German scientist Walther Nernst portrait in the 1910s.
A modern cell stand for electrochemical research. The electrodes attach to high-quality metallic wires, and the stand is attached to a potentiostat/galvanostat (not pictured). A shot glass-shaped container is aerated with a noble gas and sealed with the Teflon block.
