Congratulations to Georgia Tech PhD student Abiram Krishan! The 2025 Georgia Section Outstanding Student Achievement Award recognizes his contributions to advancing knowledge of battery redox mechanisms via advanced x-ray characterization techniques. Abiram Krishnan is a fifth-year PhD candidate in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Dr. Faisal Alamgir. His research explores the role of anion redox in metal-oxide cathodes for lithium ion batteries. In particular, he investigates how anions influence the stability…
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These ECS Awards, Fellowships, and Travel Grants are now accepting applications/nominations. Click on the award name for detailed information. ECS uses an electronic portal for all applications. Here are tips for the best results. Questions or concerns? Send a message; the team is ready to help!

Ankit Verma National Renewable Energy Laboratory Date: October 29, 2025 Time: 1300–1400h ET  

The Journal of The Electrochemical Society (JES) proudly celebrates the rapid success of the open access article “Understanding Lithium Deposition in Lithium-Ion Batteries: The Link between Impedance Results and Electrochemical Behavior.” In just a few short weeks since publication, this paper has risen to the top of JES’s Most Read Articles of 2025, capturing global attention for its clarity, rigor, and real-world relevance. Illuminating Lithium Deposition Lithium deposition, or plating, remains a major challenge in advancing lithium-ion batteries. When metallic…
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The ECS Twin Cities Section invites you to its annual symposium at Hamline University. Join us for student poster presentations, an invited technical talk, and a light meal to fuel your mind and body. Date & Time: Tuesday, October 28, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. Location: Anderson Center 112, Hamline University, 1536 Hewitt Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55104 Registration is free. To help prepare for the event, please RSVP here by Sunday, October 12.

Pennington, NJ – Wesley Chang, Jovan Kamcev, Jeffrey Lopez, Gioele Pagot, and Evan Wenbo Zhao are the 2025–2026 recipients of the ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowships for innovative projects in green energy technology. The program is a partnership between The Electrochemical Society and the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA), a division of Toyota Motor North America R&D. Through the fellowships, ECS and Toyota promote innovative and unconventional green energy technologies born from electrochemical research—and encourage young professionals and scholars to pursue battery and...
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Ines Hamam Technologist BMW Date: September 17, 2025 Time: 1000-1100h ET

The Electrochemical Society (ECS) proudly celebrates the remarkable service and scholarly contributions of Dr. Nae-Lih (Nick) Wu of National Taiwan University. A dedicated ECS member since 2001, Dr. Wu is an active participant in the ECS Battery Division and valued member of the ECS Taiwan Section. An influential voice in our community for over two decades, his ECS colleagues know him affectionately as “Nick.” As Dr. Wu approaches the conclusion of his distinguished 12-year term as an Associate Editor for…
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    The Electrochemical Society hosted “Development and Application of a 3-Electrode Setup for the Operando Detection of Side Reactions in Li-Ion Batteries,” a live webinar by Lennart Reuter and Leonhard J. Reinschlüssel (Technische Universität München), on August 6, 2025. A live Question and Answer session followed. Answers to some of the questions not addressed during the broadcast follow. Registration is required to view the webinar replay.

We’re thrilled to recognize one of the top-read articles in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society (JES): “Changes in Structure and Ionic Resistance of Lithium-Ion Battery Graphite Electrodes – Part I: Impact of Formation and SEI” by Jonas L. S. Dickmanns, Lennart Reuter, Robert Morasch, Filippo Maglia, Roland Jung, and Hubert A. Gasteiger. This study dives into the structural evolution of graphite electrodes during the formation process of lithium-ion batteries—particularly the development of the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI). The authors…
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