The winner of the 2018 Energy Technology Division Graduate Student Award sponsored by Bio-Logic is Deijun Xiong! Each year, the ECS Energy Technology Division recognizes and rewards promising young engineers and scientists in fields pertaining to this division. The award was established in 2012 and is intended to encourage the recipients to initiate or continue careers in this field. ECS is proud to acknowledge Bio-Logic for its generous sponsorship of this award. Recipients receive a framed certificate, a $1,000 prize,…
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ECS has scheduled three short courses to be held at the 233rd ECS Meeting in Seattle, WA. The courses will be held on Sunday, May 13, 2018 from 0900h to 1430h. Registration for a short course includes a breakfast (0800-0900h), lunch, and morning/afternoon coffee breaks. The offerings are: Short course #1: Advanced Impedance Spectroscopy | Course description Mark Orazem, Instructor Short course #2: Rechargeable Battery Materials | Course description Shirley Meng and Boryann Liaw, Instructors Short course #3: Electrodeposition Fundamentals…
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Thank you to the 233rd Symposium Sponsors! Silver Arbin Instruments A01: Battery and Energy Technology Joint General Session A03: Li-ion Batteries and Beyond Lam Research Corporation D02: Plasma and Thermal Processes for Materials Modification, Synthesis, and Processing 2 Photon, Etc. B02: Carbon Nanostructures in Medicine and Biology Sigma-Aldrich Materials Science A03: Li-ion Batteries and Beyond B04: Nanocarbons in Korea B06: 2D Layered Materials: From Fundamental Science to Applications B07: Inorganic/Organic Nanohybrids for Energy Conversion Bronze Bio-Logic USA, LLC A03: Li-ion...
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Thank you to the 233rd ECS Meeting Exhibitors! The exhibitors in Seattle, WA will showcase some of the greatest innovations in the industry including cutting-edge instruments, materials, systems, publications, and software, as well as other products and services. Don’t miss the opportunity to gain face to face time with industry experts. Location The Exhibit Hall will be located in Ballroom 6ABC in the Washington State Convention Center. Exhibit Hours Monday, May 14, 2018 1200-1700h Exhibitor Move-In 1400-1700h Poster Move-In 1800-2000h...
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ECS is home to many Nobel laurates ECS is proud to be the scientific home to many winners of the Nobel Prize, the most prestigious award presented to researchers. John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.   All three Nobel Laureates have been deeply involved with The Electrochemical Society. Their extensive publications with ECS are collected in 2019 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry. Their articles trace the history of the development of the...
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Building networks Esther Takeuchi joined ECS in 1985, the same year she joined the researchers at Greatbatch Inc., where she would lead a team in developing the battery system that powers life-saving cardiac defibrillators. According to Takeuchi, her interactions with the Society over the years and the access to an international network of researchers has impacted her both personally and professionally. “Scientifically, ECS has been a great organization to be a part of,” Takeuchi said. “The cross-section of participants both...
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Every year, we celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8 as a way to commemorate the movement for women’s rights. This global holiday honors the social, economic, cultural, political – and in our case – scientific achievements of women. Additionally, International Women’s Day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Currently, women remain underrepresented in the STEM workforce, although to a lesser degree than the past. According to the National Science Foundation, the greatest gender disparities still…
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Priceless collaborations Shirley Meng joined ECS as a graduate student in 2007. Since becoming involved with the Society and interacting with the ECS Battery Division, Meng has felt a sense of mentorship and comradery that has inspired her to keep coming back to ECS and its membership base. “ECS is really my professional home,” Meng said. “I’ve been able to interact with a lot of scientists and researchers and form collaborations, some of them lasting more than a decade. Those...
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The meaning of ECS as told by its members Society members say that ECS is their professional home. It’s where they meet new colleagues and discover valuable peer collaborations. ECS connects you to a global network of scientists and engineers in academia, industry, and government—leaders in the fields of electrochemistry and solid state science and technology. Read members’ stories: ECS Community Adapts and Advances Through COVID-19 (Elizabeth Biddinger, Venkat Viswanathan, Netzahualcó yotl [Netz] Arroyo-Currá s, Marion Jones, Joe Stetter, Jerry...
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By: Bob Marcotte, University of Rochester  In order to power entire communities with clean energy, such as solar and wind power, a reliable backup storage system is needed to provide energy when the sun isn’t shining and the wind doesn’t blow. One possibility is to use any excess solar- and wind-based energy to charge solutions of chemicals that can subsequently be stored for use when sunshine and wind are scarce. At that time, the chemical solutions of opposite charge can…
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