ELECTROCHEMISTRY The Cornerstone for a Myriad of Innovations
by Ivana Ashmita Minz
Having found his interests roused, the professor went on to find out what the buzz was all about. What followed, was a series of innovations that even he hadn’t imagined venturing into.
Like Newton’s law is to tug-of-war and Schrodinger’s equation to quantum physics, so is electrochemistry to fuel cells, solar cells, flow batteries and a lot more. ‘They all belong to a common thread which is what we call electrochemistry’, says Prof. Ramanujam, Associate Professor in the Dept. of Chemistry at IIT Madras.
