A Fully Cardboard Based Microbial Fuel Cell Dr. Harnisch’s project that he conducts in collaboration with Dr. Schröder (TU Braunschweig) proposes to develop a fully cardboard based, low-cost, high-performance, ready-to-use, sustainable microbial fuel cell which could clean wastewater while generating clean water and electric energy. The core of the microbial fuel cell is electrodes produced form corrugated cardboard via a simple carbonization procedure. The project will develop corrugated cardboard electrodes to be used as anode and cathode material which could…
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ECS President | 1908-1909 Edward Goodrich Acheson, a charter member and President of the Society (1908-1909), was born in Washington, PA, on March 9, 1856. From the age of 30 to 70, he received 69 patents on devices, techniques, and compositions of matter in the fields of mechanics, electricity, electrochemistry, and colloid chemistry. His father’s death required Acheson to start work at the age of 16 to help support his family. He held various railroad jobs, performing scientific work and…
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ECS President | 1916-1917 Francis Alexander James FitzGerald was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1870. He was the eldest son of a prominent Dublin physician. He received his early education in Ireland and England and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin University in 1892 (B.A.). He was that year’s Moderator and Medalist in Experimental Physics. He came to the United States in 1893 to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduating in 1895 (B.S. Electrical). Shortly after graduating from M.I.T., he…
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ECS President | 1918-1919 Frank Jerome Tone was born in Bergen, New York on October 6, 1868. He received an Electrical Engineering degree from Cornell University in 1891 and a Doctor of Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1935. He worked for the General Electric Company from 1891 to 1893 and the Pittsburgh Railroad Company 1893- 1895. In 1895, he became Works Manager and President of Carborundum Company and was elected Chairman of the Board in 1942. His contributions…
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In-situ Electrochemical Generation of the Fenton Reagent for Treatment of Human Wastewater Luis A. Godínez was born in Mexico city on November 10, 1967. After getting a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering and a M.Sc. in Science in Physical Chemistry at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), he moved to the University of Miami in the USA where he got a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry under Prof. Angel E. Kaifer. In 1997 he got an…
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Artificial Biofilms for Sanitary/Hygienic Interface Technologies Plamen Atanassov graduated from the University of Sofia (1987) specializing in Chemical Physics and Theoretical Chemistry. He joined the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and became a Member of Technical Staff of its Central Laboratory of Electrochemical Power Sources (now the Institute for Electrochemistry & Power Systems). His initial work included materials solutions for metal-air batteries. He was a visiting scientist at the Frumkin’s Institute of Electrochemistry, Moscow, Russia studying bio-electrochemistry of enzymes and received...
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ECS program addresses world sanitation problems In its first “Science for Solving Society’s Problems Challenge,” ECS partnered with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to leverage the brainpower of the many scientists in electrochemistry and solid state science and technology that regularly attend ECS meetings. The four grantees were identified during a multi-day workshop at the Electrochemical Energy and Water Summit in Mexico held October 2014. Working together Over 100 researchers were guided through a brainstorming and working group session...
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ECS President | 1938-1939 Robert L. Baldwin was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 8, 1884. In 1895, he moved with his parents Conneaut, Ohio. On graduating from high school there in 1901, he went to Chicago where he found employment in the freight Department of the American Steel and Wire Company. Early in 1902, he was transferred to the Chemical Laboratory of the Newburgh Works the Company at Cleveland, Ohio. From the Laboratory, he went on to the Bessemer…
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Many ECS divisions and sections offer travel grants to undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and young professionals & faculty presenting papers at ECS biannual meetings. Applications must be received no later than submission deadlines listed below. Divisions/Sections may have additional application requirements. Please review the additional requirements for each division/section prior to filling out the online application. Important note: Applicants may only apply for a travel grant from one division. The following divisions & sections currently offer travel grants: Student...
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ECS President | 1970-1971 Charles William Tobias was born in Budapest, Hungary on November 2, 1920. Following high school and graduation from the Municipal Conservatory of Music, he received his Chemical Engineer's diploma from the University of Technical Sciences (Muegyetem) in Budapest. After one year of military service with the Army Engineers, he was employed by the radio tube division of United Incandescent Lamp and Electrical Co., Ltd., between 1942-1947. He held a Demonstrator's appointment in the Institute of Physical...
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