Pennington, NJ – Betar M. Gallant, Yayuan Liu, Jacob S. Spendelow, and William Tarpeh received the 2022–2023 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowships for projects in green energy technology. The fellowship program is a partnership between The Electrochemical Society and the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA), a division of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. (TEMA). Through this program, ECS and Toyota promote innovative and unconventional green energy technologies born from electrochemical research—and encourage young professionals and scholars...
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The John B. Goodenough Award was established in 2022 to recognize distinguished contributions to the fundamental and technological aspects of electrochemical materials science and engineering. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to materials innovations in the areas of batteries, solid ion conductors, fuel cells, transition-metal oxides, and/or magnetic materials. Nomination Deadline: June 15, even years Presented: Spring meeting, odd years Eligibility criteria The recipient shall be distinguished for paradigm-shifting contributions in the fields of electrochemical and/or solid state science and recognized...
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The Electrochemical Society hosted Dr. Luis Fernando Arenas’ live webinar, “Flow Cells: Advanced Electrodes via 3D Printing and Tomography,” on July 20, 2022. Dr. Arenas took audience questions during a live Question and Answer session at the end of the presentation, and was kind enough to answer, in writing, questions he was not able to get to during the broadcast. Read his responses to these questions below. NOTE: Registration is required for viewing

Pennington, NJ – The Electrochemical Society (ECS) has named 15 new members to the 2022 Class of ECS Fellows. The designation “Fellow of The Electrochemical Society” was established in 1989 for advanced individual technological contributions to the fields of electrochemistry and solid state science and technology, and for service to the Society. Fellows are recognized for scientific achievements, leadership, and active participation in the affairs of ECS. Each year, their peers choose up to 15 renowned scientists and engineers for…
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Register ASAP for August 24 webinar Join us for an inside view into the ECS submission and peer review process, and tips on preparing and managing a strong manuscript submission for publication consideration. Two esteemed ECS editors—Brett Lucht and Janine Mauzeroll—guide you through the process. This webinar deepens ECS Publications editorial teams’ connection and engagement with students and early career researchers in the ECS community—an important component of our mission to disseminate scientific research to the electrochemical and solid state…
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Pennington, NJ – The Electrochemistry Society congratulates John B. Goodenough on the occasion of his 100th birthday on July 25, 2022. John has been active with the Society throughout his career as an admired and beloved member, author, fellow, awardee, meeting participant, professor, and more. His unprecedented years of service to the scientific community are an inspiration to us all. “At The Electrochemistry Society, we are fortunate to not only know John Goodenough, the great scientist; we also know John…
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Pennington, NJ – The Electrochemical Society (ECS) announces the recipients of the 2022 ECS Summer Fellowships. Stanford University student Maha Yusuf received the Edward G. Weston Fellowship. The Joseph W. Richards Fellowship went to Qiming Liu at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Sudhan Nagarajan at Wayne State University got the F. M. Becket Fellowship. The H. H. Uhlig Fellowship was awarded to Rui Jia at CUNY (City University of New York) Graduate Center and Queens College. The ECS Summer Fellowships support...
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The ECS Detroit Section held its 2022 Officer Election from May 13-June 3, 2022. Thank you to all ECS members who supported their regional community by voting, and to the new officers for serving their section. The new officers’ terms of office are for two years or until their successors have been qualified. Their terms begin at 0800h ET on January 1 of the calendar year following the election. Please join us in congratulating our new ECS officers and wishing…
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The ECS Twin Cities Section held its 2022 Officer Election in March. Thank you to everyone who voted in the election; and thank you to the new officers for serving their section. Announcing the new ECS Twin Cities Section officers Chair: Victoria Gelling, Sherwin-Williams Vice Chair: Vincent Chevrier, Partner, Cyclikal; CTO, Trion Secretary: Peter Zhang, Medtronic Treasurer: Hui Ye, Medtronic Members-at-Large: Bill Howard, ECS Emeritus Member Lifeng Dong, Hamline University Alan Shi, Medtronic Delenn Fingerlow, Sherwin-Williams

(Michael) Stanley Whittingham was born in Nottingham, England, in 1941. The longtime Society member and ECS Fellow won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in developing lithium ion batteries. He shared the prize with John Goodenough and Akira Yoshino. At the University of Oxford, Whittingham completed a BA in Chemistry (1964), and MA (1967) and PhD (1968) in Solid State Chemistry. He came to the U.S. in 1968 to pursue a postgraduate fellowship at Stanford University. In…
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