In a candidate-driven market, candidates—not companies—have the upper hand. Hiring in a candidate-driven market is tough. As an employer, you are constantly competing for the right talent. To ensure that you’re spending your recruiting dollars on the right resources, use The Electrochemical Society Career Center. It’s the best source to look for highly-qualified professionals in your industry.

With The Electrochemical Society Career Center’s pay-per-use Resume Bank, you search through anonymous resumes before you pay anything. Browse and contact candidates for free. Pay only when the candidate accepts your invite. (more…)

The Executive Committee of The Electrochemical Society wishes to express our collective shock and dismay at the appalling actions unfolding in Ukraine. Although the Society’s mission is not political, we feel compelled to share this statement because what we have seen is a humanitarian tragedy, launched without provocation or regard to the needless suffering the invasion of sovereign Ukraine has caused.

ECS will not sponsor or otherwise financially support events and institutions operating within the Russian Federation until such time that they have withdrawn their forces and made restoration, to the extent possible, for the damage inflicted on the Ukrainian people. (more…)

Ion Storage Systems (ION), the battery technology company founded by ECS President Eric Wachsman, announced the initial closing of its $30 million Series A financing round. Clear Creek Investments, VoLO Earth Ventures, and Alsop Louie Partners led the investment. With the funding, ION will commission and qualify a battery cell manufacturing line capable of producing 10MWh/yr of safe, energy dense and versatile solid state batteries.

Ion Storage Systems

ION started in Dr. Wachsman’s University of Maryland chemistry lab with a $574,275 federal grant. The company’s high-energy dense, nonflammable solid state lithium metal batteries are safer, lighter, pack tighter density, tolerate greater abuse, and have reduced volume and weight. The new financing enables the company to launch a factory near Washington, D.C., and begin commercial production of the batteries. Aerospace and defense customers will receive the first commercial cells followed by development projects with multiple electric vehicle manufacturers, defense contractors, and consumer electronics companies. (more…)

Save the date: Sunday, April 3 – Sunday, April 10

When the ECS Digital Library on IOPscience paywall comes down on April 3, it’s your opportunity to access over 165,000 scientific journal and magazine articles and meeting abstracts at no cost. Free the Science Week 2022 is the sixth year that the Society puts into action its long-term vision of providing access to all in order to accelerate the advancement of scientific research. (more…)

The ECS Detroit Section invites you to join Michael Fetcenko for his webinar on Thursday, March 3, 2022.

Date: Thursday, March 3, 2022
Time: 1900h EST
Cost: Free

Speaker

Michael Fetcenko
Executive Chairman, Sion Power

Webinar is open to the public

Format: Zoom Meeting
Pre-registration: Required through ECS My Account
Don’t have one? It’s easy to create—visit Create an Account now.

Registration is required to view the webinar. ECS membership is not required to participate. (more…)

The 2022 ECS Society Officers Election is now open through March 15, 2022. We hope you exercise your right as an ECS member to vote. We have an outstanding slate of dedicated volunteers, each of whom has a long and distinguished history of service to the Society and the field.

Follow the links below to view candidate biographies and cast your vote for the 2022 ECS officer nominees.

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