At every ECS meeting, there is generally one technical session that everyone can attend, and that is the ECS Lecture. The Society has benefited over the years from invited lectures delivered by a series of notable speakers.
In earlier days, there were the Joseph W. Richards Memorial Lectures in honor of the Society’s first president. These lectures were presented annually and the texts were published in ECS Transactions.
The Richards Lectures were discontinued after 1958. In 1970, the policy of having an ECS Lecture open every Society meeting was initiated.
2024 – 2005
2024 | PRiME 2024
Hiroshi Nishihara
Coordination Nanosheets – Electro-functional 2D Polymers of Metal Complexes
2024 | 245th Meeting
Yury Gogotsi
What MXenes Can Do for Efficient Generation, Storage, and Conversion of Electrical Energy
2023 | 243rd Meeting
Linda Horton
Sustainable Clean Energy – Foundational Research Challenges and Opportunities
2023 | 244th Meeting with SOFC-XVIII
Zhenan Bao
Skin-inspired Materials for Sensing, Soft Integrated Circuits and Next Generation Batteries
2022 | 242nd Meeting
M. Stanley Whittingham
The Critical Role of Energy Storage in the Electric Economy and Overcoming Climate Change
2022 | 241st Meeting
Jeff Dahn
Modern Lithium Ion Batteries: More than One Million Miles and Possibly a Century of Life
2021 | 240th Meeting
Michael Hecht
Electrolysis on Mars: MOXIE and the Perseverance Mission
2021 | 239th Meeting
Rodney S. Ruoff
Carbon Materials
PRiME 2020 | 238th Meeting
Nam-Gyu Park
Perovskite Solar Cells: Past 10 Years and Next 10 Years
2020 | 237th Meeting
Harry Atwater
New Directions for Energy from Sunlight
2019 | 236th Meeting
Valerie Browning
DARPA Advances in Electrochemistry and Solid State Science and Technology
2019 | 235th Meeting
Koen Kas
Guardian Angels turning Sickcare into Healthcare
2018 | AiMES 2018 Meeting
Luis A. Godínez
Electro- and Photo-Electro-Chemical Generation of the Fenton Reagent. Some Approaches for the Development of Electrochemical Based Advanced Oxidation Processes for Water Treatment
2018 | 233rd ECS Meeting
Miguel Nicolelis
Linking Brains to Machines: From Basic Science to Neurological Neurorehabilitation
2017 | 232nd ECS Meeting
Steven Chu
The Role of Electrochemistry in our Transition to Sustainable Energy
(VIDEO)
2017 | 231st ECS Meeting
Way Kuo
A Risk Look at Energy Development
PRiME 2016 | 230th ECS Meeting
Michael Graetzel
Photoelectrochemical Cells for the Generation of Electricity and Fuels from Sunlight
(VIDEO)
2016 | 229th Meeting
Christian Amatore
Seeing, Measuring and Understanding Vesicular Exocytosis of Neurotransmitters
2015 | 228th Meeting
Adam Heller
Wealth, Global Warming and Geoengineering
(VIDEO)
2015 | 227th Meeting
John A. Turner
Hydrogen from Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting – What’s it gonna’ take?
2014 | 226th Meeting
Víctor Gerardo Carreón Rodríguez
Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in Mexico
2014 | 225th Meeting
Charles M. Lieber
Nanowires: From Nanocomputing to Nano-Bioelectronics
2013 | 224th Meeting
Mark S. Wrighton
America’s Energy Future: Science, Engineering, and Policy Challenges
2013 | 223rd Meeting
Michael Mayberry
The Frontier of Electronics Research
PRiME 2012 | 222nd Meeting
Tadashi Matsunaga
Cell Bioelectrochemistry
2012 | 221st Meeting
Bruno Scrosati
Will It Be a Tank of Lithium to Drive Our Next Car?
2011 | 220th Meeting
Mark Verbrugge
Energy and Personal Transportation
2011 | 219th Meeting
Jeffery Dahn
How Can One Tell if a Li-Ion Battery Will Last for Decades in Only Three Weeks of Testing?
2010 | 218th Meeting
Shuji Nakamura
Current and Future Status of Nitride-based Solid State Lighting
2010 | 217th Meeting
William Banholzer
The Future of Energy Conversion: A Perspective from the Chemical Industry
2009 | 216th Meeting
Martin Stratmann
Electrochemical Design of Novel Zinc Alloys for the Corrosion Protection of Steel
2009 | 215th Meeting
Federico Capasso
Quantum Cascade Lasers for the Mid- to Far-Infrared: Band-Structure Engineering, Beam Engineering and Applications
2008 | 214th Meeting
Tetsuya Osaka
New Developments in Electrochemical Nano-Technology
2008 | 213th Meeting
Sumio Iijima
Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis, Modification, and Characterizations
2007 | 212th Meeting
Bernard S. Meyerson
The Origins of and Imperative for Green IT
2007 | 211th Meeting
James M. Tour
NanoCars and Hybrid Silicon/Molecule Devices
2006 | 210th Meeting
José Luis Fernández Zayas
Science and Technology Policy in Mexico for the 21st Century
2006 | 209th Meeting
Ralph Overend
Renewable Energy: Progress and Promise
2005 | 208th Meeting
Nathan S. Lewis
Scientific Challenges in Sustainable Energy Technology
2005 | 207th Meeting
Arthur Carty
Successes and Future Challenges for Canadian Research and Development
2004 – 1989
2004 | 206th Meeting
Masuo Aizawa
Innovative Challenges of Bioelectronics
2004 | 205th Meeting
Richard Alkire
Molecular Engineering in an Age of Discovery and Information
2003 | 204th Meeting
Fritz Kalhammer
When Will We Be Able to Buy and Drive Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles?
2003 | 203rd Meeting
Gerd Binnig
Nanotechnology: The Path to Handling Complexity?
2002 | 202nd Meeting
Carol Jensen
New Chemical Technologies – The Dow Perspective
2002 | 201st Meeting
Arnold Thackray
Chemistry Is Electric
2001 | 200th Meeting
Bertram Batlogg
Field-Induced Charges in Organic Crystals: New Perspectives for Science and Technology
2001 | 199th Meeting
William D. Phillips
Almost Absolute Zero: The Story of Laser Cooling and Trapping
2000 | 198th Meeting
Carl Djerassi
NO on Electrochemistry
2000 | 197th Meeting
Stevan Harnad
Freeing the Refereed Journal Literature Online Through Public Self-Archiving
1999 | 196th Meeting
Kenichi Honda
Recent Progress in Photoelectrochemistry
1999 | 195th Meeting
Alan G. Miller
Aerospace Materials for the 21st Century
1998 | 194th Meeting
John Horgan
The Beginning of the End of Science
1998 | 193rd Meeting
C. Judson King
The Research University of the Twenty-First Century
1997 | 192nd Meeting
Paris, France
Laurence M. Peter
Many Hands Make Light Work: Recent Progress in Photochemistry
Jean Marie Lehn
Molecular and Supra-molecular Electronic Device
1997 | 191st Meeting
Gordon E. Moore
Fifty Years of Semiconductor Technology
1996 | 190th Meeting
Guenter W. Gross
Eavesdropping on Neuronal Networks with Photoetched Multi-electrode Arrays
1996 | 189th Meeting
Rudolph Marcus
Electron Transfers in Electrochemistry, Chemistry, and Biology
1995 | 188th Meeting
Janet G. Osteryoung
Opportunities at the Interface
1995 | 187th Meeting
Jiri Janata
Nuclear Waste – Scientific Liability, Challenge, and Opportunity
1994 | 186th Meeting
Robert Baboian
Electrochemical Technology and the Conservation of Sculpture – Cherish the Patina
1994 | 185th Meeting
David A. Hodges
Competitive Semiconductor Manufacturing
1993 | 184th Meeting
Richard E. Smalley
From Buckyballs to Bucky Tubes: New Possibilities in Nano-Technology
1993 | 183rd Meeting
M. Patrick McCormick
Global Environmental Impact on Volcanic Eruptions
1992 | 182nd Meeting
Peter Morand
Energy and the Environment – What Are the Options?
1992 | 181st Meeting
George E. Brown, Jr.
Government Initiatives in Material Science
1991 | 180th Meeting
1. L. Pearce Williams
Michael Faraday, A Biography
2. Sir John Meurig
Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution
3. Neil W. Ashcroft
Cause and Chance, and the Future Direction of Condensed Matter Science
4. Adam Heller
On the Impact of Electrochemistry on Biomedicine and the Environment
1991 | 179th Meeting
Frederick M. Bernthal
The Strategic Importance of Science and Technology in the 21st Century
1990 | 178th Meeting
Terry Cole
Electrochemical Technology in the Space Program
1990 | 177th Meeting
Hugh Wynne-Edwards
The Future is Electric
1989 | 176th Meeting
Allen J. Bard
The Limits of Electrochemistry
1989 | 175th Meeting
William G. Ouchi
The Logic of Joint Research and Development
1988 – 1970
1988 | 174th Meeting
Ralph E. Gomory
Learning from the Product Cycle
1988 | 173rd Meeting
Robert J. Cava
High Temperature Superconductivity: What is Understood, What is Mystery
1987 | 172nd Meeting
Robert C. Eberhart
Biocompatible Chemical Sensors: Progress and Problems
1987 | 171st Meeting
Arnold Thackray
What’s Past is Prologue: Two-Hundred Years of Chemistry in America
1986 | 170th Meeting
Charles F. Drexel
Semiconductor Processing Equipment, Technology Forecast
1986 | 169th Meeting
William A. Edelstein
NMR Imaging – Medical and Technical Applications
1985 | 168th Meeting
J. Stuart Fordyce
Space Station: Present and Future
1985 | 167th Meeting
Yoshiyuki Takeishi
Present and Future VSLI Technology
1984 | 166th Meeting
Philip H. Kelly
Technical Challenges in Oil and Gas Producing Operations
1984 | 165th Meeting
Ralph E. Gormory
Future Technology of Computers
1983 | 164th Meeting
Alan G. Chynoweth
The Photonics Revolution
1983 | 163rd Meeting
C. Lester Hogan
VLSI Processes and the Future
1982 | 162nd Meeting
W. Dale Compton
The Role of Electrochemistry in the Automotive Environment
1982 | 161st Meeting
Larkin Kerwin
The Need for Constancy in Research and Development
1981 | 160th Meeting
Donald L. Feucht
Solar Energy Research at SERI
1981 | 159th Meeting
Gordon Moore
A Perspective on VLSI
1980 | 158th Meeting
N. Bruce Hannay
The Great Innovation Debate
1980 | 157th Meeting
D. J. BenDaniel
Energy Conversion through Semiconductor AC Motor Drives
1979 | 156th Meeting
Rudolph A. Marcus
Theory of Electron and Proton Transfer Reactions at Electrodes
1979 | 155th Meeting
Philip Morrison
Microwatts to Supernovae – and Up
1978 | 154th Meeting
H. W. Paxton
The Changing Scene in Steel
1978 | 153rd Meeting
Philip N. Sawyer
Application of Electrochemical Technique to Problem Solving in Medicine
1977 | 152nd Meeting
Paul Dean Maycock
Solar Energy – Can We Make it Happen?
1977 | 151st Meeting
Guyford Stever
The Current State of Science and Technology
1976 | 150th Meeting
Gabor A. Somerjai
Correlations of Structure, Composition and Catalytic Activity at the Solid-Gas and Solid-Liquid Interfaces
1976 | 149th Meeting
Vittorio de Nora
Recent Developments and New Avenues in Electrochemical Processing Technology
1975 | 148th Meeting
John S. Foster, Jr.
Energy – The Short and Long of It
1975 | 147th Meeting
William G. Schneider
Science and Technology – The New Challenges
1974 | 146th Meeting
J. Herbert Hollomon
Technology and the Changing Society
1974 | 145th Meeting
Arthur L. Schawlow
1973 | 144th Meeting
Harvey Brooks
Science and the Future of Economic Growth
1973 | 143rd Meeting
Arthur M. Bueche
Energy Options
1972 | 142nd Meeting
Bernd T. Matthias
What This Country Needs is a Good Battery, In the Meantime
1972 | 141st Meeting
John D. Hoffman
Measures for Environmental Measurement
1971 | 140th Meeting
Arthur von Hippel
Molecular Understanding of Electrochemical Processes by Ice Research
1971 | 139th Meeting
Frederick Seitz
Science and the University
1970 | 138th Meeting
Nathan E. Promisel
The Scientific Society and National Materials Problems
1970 | 137th Meeting
Leo Brewer
Electrons – The Universal Glue
Joseph W. Richards Memorial Lecture
1932
John A. Mathews
The Electric Furnace and the Alloy Age
1933
R. S. Hutton
Faraday and His Electrochemical Researches
1934
S. Landis, Joseph W. Richards
The Teacher – The Industry
1936
Karl K. Darrow
Electricity in Gases
1938
Charles H. Herty
The Utilization of Southern Pine
1939
Bradley Stoughton
Modern Marvels of Electrometallurgy
1941
Vladimir K. Zworykin
The Electron Microscope
1943
B. D. Saklatwalla
Thermal Reactions in Ferro-Alloy Metallurgy, the Basis of Alloy Steel Development
1946
Steward J. Lloyd
Freedom in Science
1949
Oliver W. Storey
Research in Industry – Is Government Antagonistic to It?
1951
J. O’M. Bockris
Electrochemical Overpotential
1953
William Shockley
Transistor Physics
1958
Abner Brenner
Electrolysis of Nonaqueous Solutions
