229th ECS Meeting Student Poster Session Award Winners

Pictured (from left to right): Mahsa Lotfi Marchoubeh, Leanne Mathurin, Isaac Taylor, and Haitham Kalil
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It is with great pride that ECS honors the winners of the General Student Poster Session Awards for the 229th ECS Meeting in San Diego, California. In following with biannual ECS meeting tradition, awards recognized the top two poster presentations in electrochemical and solid state categories.

ECS established the General Student Poster Session Awards in 1993 to acknowledge the eminence of its students’ work. The winners exhibit a profound understanding of their research topic and its relation to fields of interest to ECS.

In order to be eligible for the General Student Poster Session Awards, students must submit their abstracts to the Z01 General Society Student Poster Session symposium and present their posters at the biannual meeting. First and second place winners receive a certificate in addition to a cash award.

The winners of the General Student Poster Session Awards for the 229th ECS Meeting are as follows:

1st Place – Electrochemical
Mahsa Lotfi Marchoubeh
University of Arkansas
Poster Number: 2054
Poster Title: Redox Cycling Behavior of Catecholamines and Their Mixtures at Different Diffusion Distances: Steps Toward Quantitative Speciation

2nd Place – Electrochemical
Leanne Mathurin
University of Arkansas
Poster Number: 2067
Poster Title: Electrochemical Study of Platinum-Ruthenium-Copper Trimetallic Nanostructures for Methanol Oxidation

1st Place – Solid State
Isaac Taylor
Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis
Poster Number: 2075
Poster Name: Electrochemical Paper-Based Platform for Micronutrient Sensing: Potassium Detection

2nd Place – Solid State
Haitham Kalil
Cleveland State University
Poster Number: 2039
Poster Name: Manganese Functionalized Graphene As a New Platform for Peroxynitrite Sensing

ECS would like to thank its sponsors for the 229th ECS Meeting, the faculty advisors, and the division members serving as judges for their contributions to the session. The judges for both rounds of the General Student Poster Session are listed below.

1st Round: Gautam Banerjee, Mark Overberg, John Staser, Hui Xu, David Cliffle, Oana Leonte, Cortney Kreller, Iryna Zenyuk, and Roseanne Warren

2nd Round: Alice Suroviec, Robert Petro, Marce Doeff, Gautam Banerjee, and Roseanne Warren

Congratulations to the four award winners!