One of the most epic visualisations in literature must be the moment when Dr Frankenstein reanimates a dead body that is to be his monster. More than a century after Mary Shelly, the link between electricity, chemistry and biology still enthralls us. Some of the mystery was solved since, others have yet to.

But it does not take much time for us to learn the basics of how Frankenstein gave life to his monster...

Chemistry, to put it simply, is just another application of physics. It's what happens when nature uses the laws that governs it to form tangible things. Things that reacts upon and interacts with one another.

And since the most basic application of physics is the atom, we must first look into this fundamental building material to understand even the most basic of chemical principles.

Nuclear chemistry is a field that straddles both physics and chemistry. This holds no surprise as chemistry is, in a way, a subset of applied physics. Therefore things that are usually linked to physics (radiation, and subatomic particles) can and will affect things we interact with in our lives - thing that are ultimately chemicals.

Just don't press your luck on becoming the Incredible Hulk.

How do we define everything around us? By it's shape, colour, or texture? Defining a chair as 'medium sized' and 'brown' may be useful in the subjective art of interior decoration, but to an objective eye they're not very helpful. Imagine then if we are to describe the motion of planets, the orbit of satellites, the flow of water through a hydroelectric dam, or the flow of electricity in a microprocessor. Subjectivity is not an option, and any impreciseness or subjectivity in standards may spell disaster.

It's a good thing we figured that out in the 19th century, as without it it would not make the 20th and 21st centuries possible.

Were all 'very familiar with batteries. May they be the standard AA in remote controls or the rechargeable ones in our phones, it's a very convenient way o ensure that our indispensable modern appliances are reliably powered, at least for some time. But chemical batteries do have a downside; they are an environmental hazard both in producing and disposing them, and they can only be reusable for a finite number of times.

But what if we can store energy in another way? In an arguably better way?