The early months of each year are an exciting time at ECS as officer elections take place during the months of January through March. Elected officers constitute the organization’s executive committee and include the following positions: president, three vice presidents, secretary, and treasurer. We vote for the new President, Third Vice President, and Treasurer in this election. The following are biographical sketches and candidacy statements for all candidates.   Candidate for President | Candidates for Third Vice President | Candidates…
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The ECS Interface winter 2021 issue is now available to read online. The issue on clean hydrogen is guest edited by Nemanja Danilovic, formerly of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and now at Electric Hydrogen, and Iryna Zenyuk of the National Fuel Cell Research Center, University of California, Irvine. As always, Interface Editor Rob Kelly invites you to enjoy the issue’s special features and news. Special Features Hydrogen’s Big Shot by Nemanja Danilovic, Iryna Zenyuk Ten Questions for Kelly J. Speakes-Backman, Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency…
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Submission deadline extended: April 22, 2022 Abstract submission is now open for the 242nd ECS Meeting, which runs from October 9-13, 2022, in Atlanta, GA. This must-attend event for electrochemists and solid state scientists features over 50 symposia in these areas:

About ECS Advances  ECS Advances is a multidisciplinary, gold open access forum of peer-reviewed, high–quality content covering all technical areas supported by the Society. ECS Advances publishes full-length original work, brief communication-style papers, perspectives, review articles, and special issues. Journal Links  » Read ECSA Articles » Technical Scope  » Submit an article to ECSA » Track your article Submission  » Subscribe  Journal Editorial Board  Technical Editors Netz Arroyo-Curras Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine       Baltimore, MD, US Sensors Fan Ren University of Florida Gainesville, FL, US Electronic and Photonic…
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The Electrification of Everything webinar is co-presented by the MRS Bulletin and The Electrochemical Society.  Date: December 15, 2021 Time: 1200-1330h EST Cost: Free Hosts David Ginley, National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) Kevin S. Jones, University of Florida Speakers Judith Vidal, National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), Colorado School of Mines Wale Odukomaiya, National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) Petra Maier, Hochschule Stralsund  Timothy Lipman, University of California, Berkeley Turgut Gür, Stanford University Registration is required to view the webinar.

Topic Close-up #13 Symposium A05: Battery Recycling and Reuse Extended Deadline for Submitting Abstracts: December 17, 2021 Symposium focus:  From portable electronics to electric vehicles and renewable energy storage, batteries continue to deeply penetrate our daily life and industrial uses. With the rapid increase of battery usage, a huge amount of spent batteries will be generated in the coming years. At the same time, booming battery manufacturing will result in the resource shortage and price increase of critical metals such…
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory appointed Y. Shirley Meng to be Chief Scientist at the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) with a joint appointment as a professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at The University of Chicago. She assumes the position in January 2022. Dr. Meng joined ECS as a graduate student in 2007 and calls the Society her “professional home.” She is on the Society’s Board of Directors and serves as Chair…
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Michael Hecht responds to ECS Lecture questions Michael H. Hecht delivered the ECS Lecture, Electrolysis on Mars: MOXIE and the Perseverance Mission, at the Plenary Session of the 240th ECS Meeting on October 11, 2021. Answers to questions posed during his lecture follow. Michael Hecht is the Associate Director for Research Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Haystack Observatory. Since 2013, he has been Principal Investigator for the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument on NASA’s Mars…
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ECS Sensors Plus and ECS Advances The Electrochemical Society is excited to announce the addition of two new gold open access journals to its family of high-quality publications!  ECS Sensors Plus ECS Sensors Plus is a multidisciplinary, open-access journal that provides an international platform to publish high-quality impactful articles, and promote scholarly communication and interactions among scientists, engineers, and technologists whose primary interests are focused on mechanisms, materials, structures, properties, performance, and characterization of sensing and detection devices and systems,…
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The Electrochemical Society enthusiastically announces the release of its newest publications, Volume 104 of ECS Transactions (ECST). This latest volume features 12 issues and 111 exclusive papers which will be presented at the 240th ECS Meeting held digitally, October 10-14, 2021. We are happy to provide the following list of issues and editors who contributed to the volume: