The ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship, a partnership between The Electrochemical Society and Toyota Research Institute of North America, a division of Toyota Motor North America, is in its fifth year. The fellowship aims to encourage young professors and scholars to pursue innovative electrochemical research in green energy technology. Through this fellowship, ECS and Toyota hope to see further innovative and unconventional technologies borne from electrochemical research.

The ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship Selection Committee has chosen five recipients to receive the 2019-2020 fellowship awards for projects in green energy technology. (more…)

ECS seeks publications specialist/Interface production editor

 

Reports to: Director of Publications
Classification: Full Time Exempt

MAJOR FUNCTION
Responsible for the production and dissemination of Interface consistent with ECS goals, objectives, and policies. Provides assistance in the management of ECS publications by performing various duties related to journals/ECST production and data collection and analysis, specifically with respect to publications usage statistics. (more…)

John Bannister Goodenough, internationally recognized as one of the key minds behind the development of the first commercial lithium-ion battery, has been awarded the Royal Society’s Copley Medal, the world’s oldest scientific prize.

The longtime ECS fellow and honorary member was recognized for his exceptional contributions to the materials science field, still used in mobile electronics today, including laptops and smartphones all around the world. The award ties him to an elite group of equally notable scientists and engineers, including the likes of Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, Albert Einstein, and Dorothy Hodgkin.

“Words are not sufficient to express my appreciation for this award,” said Goodenough, in a Royal Society interview. “My ten years at Oxford were transformative for me, and I thank especially those who had the imagination to invite a U.S. non-academic physicist to come to England to be a Professor and Head of the Oxford Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory. I regret that age and a bad leg prevent my travel back to England to celebrate such a wonderful surprise.”

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Dr. Kang Xu

Dr. Kang Xu

ECS’s San Francisco Section is proud to hold its third section meeting of 2019 with invited guest speaker Kang Xu, who will present his talk:

Before Li-Ion Batteries, and Thereafter…

Kang Xu
Electrochemistry Branch, U. S. Army Research Laboratory,
Adelphi, Maryland, 20783, USA

When: Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
Time: 6:00 P.M.
Where: Le Bateau Ivre
2629 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704

Free participation, $40 flat fee for dinner

Plan to attend? RSVP: sfsectionecs@gmail.com 

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ECS will be exhibiting at the upcoming Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Energy Innovation Summit in Denver, Colorado.

ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit
Booth #602
July 8-10, 2019
Gaylord Rockies l Denver, Colorado

The annual conference and technology showcase offers a space for experts from various technical and professional communties to come together in one place to think about America’s energy challenges in new and innovative ways. (more…)

The Electrochemical Society has some exciting news! ECS has selected IOP Publishing (IOPP) as its journals publishing partner.

Starting in 2020, IOPP will partner with ECS in the publication of the Journal of the Electrochemical Society and the ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology and the hosting of ECS Transactions, ECS Meeting Abstracts, and Interface as well as the hosting of the archives for ECS’s retired publications—ECS Electrochemistry Letters, ECS Solid State Letters, Electrochemical and Solid State Letters, and ECS Proceedings Volumes.

Christopher Jannuzzi, executive director and CEO of ECS, said: “ECS has a 117+ year reputation for creating outstanding, peer-reviewed periodicals, conference proceedings, and magazines. We have a long-standing commitment to ensure the technical quality of the works published, as well as the integrity and validity of the peer review our community provides. (more…)

Technical Editor Ajit Khosla and Guest Editors Nick Wu, Peter Hesketh, Muthukumaran Packirisamy, Praveen Kumar Sekhar, Aicheng Chen, Shekhar Bhansali, Jessica Koehne, Larry Nagahara, Thomas Thundat, Netz Arroyo, Kumkum Ahmed, Trisha Andrew, Rangachary Mukundan, and Jeffrey Halpern invite you to submit to the Journal of The Electrochemical Society focus issue on sensor reviews.

Submission deadline | September 18, 2019

Submit manuscripts

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Interface magazinesAdvertise with ECS

The fall issue of Interface, our quarterly membership magazine, is the perfect opportunity to get your organization’s brand in front of over 6,000 electrochemistry and solid state scientists and engineers! This publication contains technical articles about the latest developments in the field and presents news and information about and for members of ECS. (more…)

Visit ECS at SLA 2019!

ECS will be exhibiting at the upcoming SLA 2019 Annual Conference in Cleveland, Ohio.

SLA 2019 Annual Conference
Booth #225
June 14–18, 2019
Cleveland, Ohio

If you’re attending the conference, make sure to stop by Booth #225 to learn more about:

  • ECS publications, the ECS Digital Library, and the Society’s subscription options.
  • The benefits of ECS Plus, the Society’s read-and-publish subscription package.
  • ECS’s Free the Science initiative, which aims to accelerate the Society’s transition to a platinum open access model.

See you there!

Six of the seven 2019 OBE Division student travel grant awardees at the 235th ECS Meeting in Dallas, TX (from left to right): Mariana VasquezKsenia Pavlova, Kody WolfeAna Flavia PetroLasangi Dhanapalamudiyanselage, and Shaoyang Wang.

The Organic and Biological Electrochemistry (OBE) Division offers travel grants to students presenting papers at ECS biannual meetings.

ECS and the OBE Division is proud to announce the 2019 recipients of the Organic and Biological Electrochemistry Division Student Travel Grant: Mariana Vasquez, Duke University; Ksenia Pavlova, San Diego State University; Kody Wolfe, Vanderbilt University; Ana Flavia Petro, Indiana University; Lasangi Dhanapalamudiyanselage, University of Connecticut; Shaoyang Wang, Texas A&M University; and Nuttanit Pramounmat, Case Western Reserve University (not present in photo). Congratulations! (more…)