ECS Announces 2023-2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship Recipients

Congratulations to Yaocai Bai of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Yuzhang Li of the University of California, Los Angeles, winners of the 2023-2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship for Projects in Green Energy Technology. Through the fellowship, ECS and the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRI-NA), a division of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. (TEMA), will support their innovative electrochemical research in green energy technology. ECS and Toyota share the fellowship’s goal to encourage young professionals and scholars to pursue research into batteries, fuel cells and hydrogen, and future sustainable technologies.

Learn more about Dr. Bai and Prof. Li, their research projects, and the ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship for Projects in Green Energy Technology.

2023-2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellows


Yaocai Bai
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
“Solvent-based Binder Removal towards Sustainable Direct Cathode Recycling”

 


Yuzhang Li

University of California, Los Angeles
“Cryo-EM of Nanoscale Interfaces in Eenrgy Storage and Carbon Capture Materials”

2023-2024 selection committee

Special thanks to the volunteers who served on the ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship Committee, a joint body of ECS and TRINA representatives.

The Electrochemical Society

  • Amy Prieto, Professor, Colorado State University
  • Joaquin Rodriguez-Lopez, Andrew and Susan S. Langan Professorial Scholar, LAS Distinguished Professorial Scholar and Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • John T. Vaughey, Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory

Toyota Research Institute of North America

  • Timothy (Tim) Arthur, Senior Manager, Research Strategy Office, TRINA
  • Masato Hozumi, Executive Engineer and Senior Manager, Materials Research Department, TRINA
  • Charles (Chip) Roberts, Senior Research Manager, Materials Research Department, TRINA
  • Gaohua Zhu, Senior Scientist, Materials Research Department, TRINA
  • Rana Mohtadi, Senior Principal Scientist, Materials Research Department, TRINA
  • Nik Singh, Senior Scientist, Materials Research Department, TRINA
  • Shingo Otah, Executive Engineer, Materials Research Department, TRINA
  • Chen Ling, Senior Principal Scientist, Materials Research Department, TRINA
  • John Muldoon, Senior Principal Scientist, Materials Research Department, TRINA

The request for proposals for the next ECS Toyota Fellowship cycle opens in November 2023. The submission deadline is January 31, 2024.

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