ECS named 13 new members to the 2024 class of Fellows of The Electrochemical Society. Every year since the honorary designation was founded in 1989, up to 15 members are selected as Fellows in recognition of their outstanding scientific achievements, leadership, and active participation in ECS affairs.
The 2024 ECS Fellows are (listed alphabetically):
Congratulations to the 2024 San Francisco Section Daniel Cubicciotti Student Award Recipient, Justin C. Bui of the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The award recognizes his outstanding work on developing continuum models, understanding the impact of transport and catalysis in bipolar ion-conducting polymer membranes, and elucidating the influence of the microenvironment on the activity and selectivity for the electrochemical reduction of CO2.
Justin C. Bui is a fifth year PhD candidate at UC Berkeley and researcher in the Liquid Sunlight Alliance U.S. Department of Energy Hub at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Justin earned his BS in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University, working with Prof. Daniel Esposito to fabricate membrane-less electrolyzers for sustainable hydrogen production from seawater. At Berkeley, Justin’s research with Prof. Alexis Bell and Dr. Adam Weber focuses on the use of continuum-level theory to understand the impact of transport and catalysis in bipolar ion-conducting polymer membranes, as well as to elucidate the influence of the catalytic microenvironment on the activity and selectivity of carbon dioxide (CO2) electroreduction to value-added chemical products. Throughout his PhD, Justin worked closely with experimentalists to drastically advance the development of carbon capture and conversion devices. Justin received prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) research fellowships. Outside of the lab, Justin developed inclusive, experiential curricula to introduce K-12 students to electrochemistry. He will soon start as a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology, working with Prof. Karthish Manthiram to develop electrochemical reactors capable of oxidatively activating nitrogen to make plastics and fertilizer precursors directly from air. (more…)
Minji Kim
The Society and ECS Korea Section congratulate the 2024 Korea Section Student Award winner, Minji Kim. The award recognizes Minji’s significant contributions to elucidating the degradation mechanisms of cathode materials in lithium ion batteries.
Join us in congratulating Minji! We wish her continued success in her electrochemistry and solid state science studies and research.
Minji Kim is enrolled in the integrated Energy Science and Engineering MS and PhD program at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), where she started in the fall of 2018. Her research under Professor Won-Sub Yoon’s supervision at the SKKU Energy Conversion & Storage Materials Laboratory (ECSML) focuses on analyzing the capacity degradation mechanisms of cathode materials for lithium ion batteries using synchrotron x-ray. Her investigation of capacity degradation during long-term high-temperature cycles in a pouch full cell system, employing commercial Ni-rich layered cathode materials and graphite anode materials, was published in 2023 in Advanced Energy Materials (13, 41, 2302209). Minji also conducts ongoing research on various mechanisms of both commercial cathode materials and next-generation cathode materials, including Li-rich disordered materials. (more…)
ECS’s robust awards and recognition program recognizes outstanding technical achievements in electrochemical, solid state science and technology at every career stage and recognizes exceptional service to the Society. Categories of awards include ECS Society, Division, Section, and Student Awards.
Nominations are now being accepted for the awards listed below. Please visit the award webpages for eligibility criteria, nomination guidelines, and award prizes. (more…)
The ECS Honors and Awards Program and the ECS Battery Division proudly announce the creation of the new ECS Battery Division M. Stanley Whittingham Mid-Career Award recognizing mid-career achievement and contributions to the field of electrochemical energy storage.
When the pandemic caused the cancellation of a PRiME 2020 event honoring his winning the Nobel prize, Dr. Whittingham requested that donations to the event be used for an award. The Battery Division Early M. Stanley Whittingham Mid-Career Award is partially funded through these donations. (more…)
The ECS Georgia Section recognized the 2023 ECS Georgia Section Outstanding Student Achievement Award winners, Habin Park of Georgia Institute of Technology, and Fengyi Zhao of Emory University, at their fall section meeting on October 26, 2023, at the Georgia Institute of Technology. At the meeting, Habin Park delivered his award lecture, “Sustainable Green Hydrogen Production via Innovative Engineering in Anion-Exchange Membrane Alkaline Water Electrolysis.” Fengyi Zhao’s talk was titled “Direct operando observation of surface charge build-up on TiO2 photoanode under water oxidation conditions by Electric Field induced Second Harmonic Generation.” Congratulations, Habin and Fengyi! (more…)
Yaoli Zhao
The 2023 winner of the ECS Sensor Division Student Research Award is Yaoli Zhao of the University of Buffalo for her contributions to developing a new method for standoff and point detection of chemicals by combining photothermal and photoacoustic effects with microfabricated cantilever beams to simultaneously achieve very high molecular selectivity and very high sensitivity. She will be recognized at the 245th ECS Meeting in San Francisco, CA, and deliver her award talk there.
Yaoli Zhao is a PhD student working in Thomas Thundat’s University at Buffalo lab, specializing in the field of chemical detection. Her current research focuses on developing innovative standoff detection sensors, specifically for plastic classification. Zhao successfully developed techniques and demonstrated methods for molecular identification of plastics, which resulted in the publication of multiple research papers in refereed journals including one as a corresponding author in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society. (more…)
James Noël, past ECS Corrosion Division Chair, presents award to Sanjay Choudhary.
Join us in congratulating Sanjay Choudhary of the University of Virginia, recipient of the 2023 ECS Corrosion Division Morris Cohen Graduate Student Award! Sanjay presented his award talk at the 244th ECS Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Sanjay Choudhary
University of Virginia
C01—1082 Evolution of Passivity and Passivity-Breakdown for Cr and Cr-Containing Alloys
Sanjay Choudhary is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Prof. Robert G. Kelly at the University of Virginia where he studies localized corrosion characteristics of Al-alloys used in aerospace and stainless-steel dry storage containers, by means of in situ transmission electron microscopy and finite element modeling. (more…)
The following ECS Awards have nomination deadlines from December 2023 through February 2024. Click on the links below for further information.
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Congratulations to Gustavo Hobold, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and KyuJung Jun, University of California, Berkeley, winners of the 2023 ECS Battery Division Student Research Award Sponsored by Mercedes-Benz Research and Development. Hobold and Jun presented their award talks at the 244th ECS Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Gustavo Hobold
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A07—0984 Quantitative SEI-based Descriptors For Li metal Liquid Electrolyte Design
Gustavo M. Hobold is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), working with Prof. Betar Gallant. His research focuses on developing a quantitative understanding of the functional properties and chemical composition of solid electrolyte interphases (SEI) formed natively on Li anodes. Hobold’s work leverages in situ experiments and high-throughput post-mortem titration-based techniques to precisely quantify the formation of a wide range of SEI phases and decipher capacity loss mechanisms in modern high Coulombic efficiency (CE) electrolytes. Ultimately, his work revealed several quantifiable SEI-based descriptors that can guide future liquid electrolyte discovery, aiming to breach >99.9% CE. Prior to MIT, Gustavo received his Engineering degree and MS in Mechanical Engineering from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.
