Richard Laine

Register for Richard Laine’s May 10 presentation

The ECS Detroit Section invites you to “Sustainable Battery Components from Rice Hull Ash (RHA),” presented by Professor Richard Laine at the Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America location on May 10, 2023, at 1800h ET.

Student poster awards

Students are encouraged to present posters. Up to three posters will be presented at the event. The first three students contacting the section at ecs.detroit.rsvp@gmail.com about presenting their work receive USD $100 and one year of free access to ECS Detroit Section events.

Register for Dr. Rana Mohtadi’s April 19 presentation

The ECS Detroit Section invites you to “Towards Enabling Battery Chemistries Beyond Traditional Li-ion” presented by Dr. Rana Mohtadi at Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. on April 19, 2023, at 1800h ET.

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Save the date: Sunday, April 2 – Sunday, April 9

Continuing the tradition of encouraging the open dissemination of scientific content, don’t miss Free the Science Week 2023!

From April 2 through April 10, the paywall to the entire ECS Digital Library on IOPscience will be down, making over 180,000 scientific articles and abstracts free and accessible to everyone.

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Dr. Wei Lai

The ECS Detroit Section invites you to Dr. Wei Lai’s presentation, “Study of Ionic Transport in Battery Materials with Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials,” in person at Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. at 1800h ET on March 9, 2023.

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The ECS National Capital Section invites you to register for a webinar on “Electrolytes, Interfaces, and Interphases” presented by Kang Xu from the Battery Science Branch, DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, on March 2, 2023, at 1200h ET.

Speaker: Kang Xu
Senior Chemist, Battery Science Branch
United States Army Research Laboratory (more…)

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The ECS Detroit Section invites you to an in-person seminar on Wednesday, March 1, presented by Mr. Carlton Brown onsite at Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc.

Mr. Carlton Brown
Vice President
Dukosi, Inc.

Date: March 1, 2023

Location: Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc.
35555 W 12 Mile Rd
Farmington Hills, MI 48331

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Throughout the history of the transistor technological revolution, The Electrochemical Society has served as a platform for key inventors to present their research.

In December of 1947—75 years ago—William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain invented the transistor at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey. The three men shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics “for research on semiconductors and the discovery of the transistor effect.” This invention heralded the modern electronic age. According to science historian Michael Riordan, “[The transistor] has enabled this global civilization. I would put it on the [same] level as fire, in terms of its importance to what modern life is like today.” In a recent ECS Interface article, Hiroshi Iwai and Durga Misra describe the process of the technological development behind the invention of the transistor, and discuss the meaning and impact of its invention on human history.

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