The Electrochemical Society will present the award at its spring meeting in Chicago Pennington, NJ – (February 9, 2015) – Henry White will be awarded the 2015 Allen J. Bard Award at the 227th Electrochemical Society Meeting in Chicago, Illinois May 2015. Salt Lake City local Henry White is a world leader in the field of electrochemistry, preforming pioneering research in energy storage and fundamental studies of reduction-oxidation reactions and electron-transfer reactions, and the structure of interfaces between metals and…
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The ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship Selection Committee has selected three recipients who will receive $50,000 each for the inaugural fellowships for projects in green energy technology. The winners are Professor Patrick Cappillino, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Professor Yogesh (Yogi) Surendranath, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Professor David Go, University of Notre Dame. The Electrochemical Society (ECS), in partnership with the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA), a division of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. (TEMA),...
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196th ECS Meeting | Honolulu, HI | Oct. 18, 1999 Recent Progress in Photoelectrochemistry The technical program officially began with a plenary lecture by Professor Kenichi Honda of the Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics. Professor Honda can truly be regarded as one of the pioneers of modern photoelectrochemistry. He is perhaps best known, outside of this specialized community, for his landmark study of the solar-assisted electrolysis of water with irradiated titanium dioxide photoanodes. This work was carried out when Honda was…
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200th ECS Meeting | San Francisco, CA | Sept. 3, 2001 Field-Induced Charges in Organic Crystals: New Perspectives for Science and Technology The plenary lecture, entitled, “Field-Induced Charges in Organic Crystals: New Perspectives for Science and Technology,” was given by Bertram Batlogg, a Professor of Physics at ETH, Zurich. The talk focused on a new generation of organic semiconductors, their attributes relative to inorganic semiconductors such as Si and Group II-V compounds, and their applicability to molecular electronics and opto-electronic…
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201st ECS Meeting | Philadelphia, PA | May 13, 2002 Chemistry Is Electric Monday morning saw the official opening of the meeting, with the first of three plenary talks, this one sponsored by Wilson Greatbatch, Ltd. Arnold Thackray, president of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, presented his lecture to a packed audience. Entitled “Chemistry is Electric: A Cavalcade of History from Benjamin Franklin and Alessandro Volta to Gordon Moore and Beyond,” his talk was a nostalgic trip through the history of electrochemical…
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204th ECS Meeting | Orlando, FL | Oct. 13, 2003 When Will We Be Able to Buy and Drive Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles Fritz Kalhammer, formerly of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and now an independent consultant in energy and process technology, gave the plenary lecture (with the above title) on Monday morning. If the packed fuel cell sessions that followed were anything to go by, the topic of this lecture could not have been more relevant and timely….
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206th ECS Meeting | Honolulu, HI | Oct. 18, 2004 Innovative Challenges of Bioelectronics Professor Masuo Aizawa was introduced by Junichi Tanahashi, the President of ECSJ for 2004. After a stellar academic career at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in the field of bioelectronics and biosensors, Aizawa joined the administrative ranks there and is currently serving as president of the University. Professor Aizawa’s lecture, entitled “Innovative Challenges of Bioelectronics,” began with a discussion of the world changing to a globalized knowledge…
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208th ECS Meeting | Los Angeles, CA | Oct. 17, 2005 Scientific Challenges in Sustainable Energy Technology Nathan S. Lewis, the 2002 George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, delivered the plenary address on Monday morning. Prof. Lewis has been on the Caltech faculty since 1988 and is also a principal investigator at the Beckman Institute Molecular Materials Resource Center on campus. His research interests include light-induced and “dark” electron transfer reactions at semiconductor/electrolyte interfaces, photoelectrochemistry…
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209th ECS Meeting | Denver, CO | May 8, 2006 Renewable Energy: Progress and Promise Ralph Overend of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO delivered the plenary address on Monday morning. The speaker was introduced by Barry MacDougall, Vice-President of the Society and a postdoctoral colleague of Dr. Overend’s at the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada. In the 1970s, Dr. Overend was at the NRC as manager of the Bioenergy Program and advisor on biomass energy to the…
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214th ECS Meeting | Honolulu, HI | Oct. 13, 2008 New Developments in Electrochemical Nano-Technology Electrochemical nanotechnology has produced a variety of materials with the nanometer scale. These nano-scale materials have made it possible to miniaturize electric devices, and they are fascinating because of their attractive characteristics, which are remarkably different from bulk materials. Prof. Osaka and his group have been conducting their research based on the philosophy of “creating new designs for the interface between solution and electrode at…
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