Wolfgang Zeier
The ECS New England Section invites you to an in-person networking reception and seminar on Wednesday, November 30, at 1800h during the 2022 MRS Fall Meeting at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. Wolfgang Zeier from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and Helmholtz-Institut Münster presents “Understanding (effective) ionic transport in solids and solid-state batteries.”
Registration is free! You must pre-register to attend. Space is limited.
Topic Close-up #4Symposium A05—Sodium and Zinc Batteries
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The ECS Detroit Section invites you to an in-person seminar on Monday, September 12, presented by Dr. Jungwoo Lee onsite at The Battery Show in Novi, MI. The Battery Show is the largest batteries and electric vehicles technologies tradeshow in the U.S.
Dr. Jungwoo Lee
Co-Founder and CTO
South 8 Technologies
Mark J. Willey
Battery Materials and Systems
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
University of Washington, Seattle
Date: May 3, 2022
Time: 1000–1100h PT
Price: There is no cost to register for this event, but registration is required.
Registration: You must preregister through ECS My Account. Don’t have one? It’s easy to create—visit Create an Account now.
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The ECS Detroit Section invites you to join Dr. Chen Liao for her webinar on Wednesday, April 6, 2022.
Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Time: 1900h EDT
Cost: Free (more…)
Ion Storage Systems (ION), the battery technology company founded by ECS President Eric Wachsman, announced the initial closing of its $30 million Series A financing round. Clear Creek Investments, VoLO Earth Ventures, and Alsop Louie Partners led the investment. With the funding, ION will commission and qualify a battery cell manufacturing line capable of producing 10MWh/yr of safe, energy dense and versatile solid state batteries.
ION started in Dr. Wachsman’s University of Maryland chemistry lab with a $574,275 federal grant. The company’s high-energy dense, nonflammable solid state lithium metal batteries are safer, lighter, pack tighter density, tolerate greater abuse, and have reduced volume and weight. The new financing enables the company to launch a factory near Washington, D.C., and begin commercial production of the batteries. Aerospace and defense customers will receive the first commercial cells followed by development projects with multiple electric vehicle manufacturers, defense contractors, and consumer electronics companies. (more…)
The 2nd Singapore ECS International Symposium on Energy Materials (SESEM 2021) takes place on November 20 and 21, 2021, in Singapore (virtual). The meeting brings together scientists in the materials or energy area to interact and discuss advances and challenges in various fields. The goal is to promote interaction and generate new ideas to push forward research in the electrochemical community. The symposium includes oral and poster presentations; sponsor-named poster awards will be presented. The symposium organizers cordially invite you to participate in the event and look forward to meeting you soon.
Date: November 20-21, 2021
Venue: Digital meeting via Zoom
Time: 0900h (GMT +8) (2000h ET November 19)
Dr. Y. Shirley Meng
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory appointed Y. Shirley Meng to be Chief Scientist at the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) with a joint appointment as a professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at The University of Chicago. She assumes the position in January 2022. Dr. Meng joined ECS as a graduate student in 2007 and calls the Society her “professional home.” She is on the Society’s Board of Directors and serves as Chair of the ECS Battery Division.
“To tackle the climate crisis, sustainable and resilient energy storage is one of the most important technologies humanity needs. I am excited and humbled to take up the role of ACCESS chief scientist. At the same time, as a faculty member of the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, I hope to build an innovation ecosystem where we can train the next generation workforce, foster meaningful relations with industry both domestic and international, and make breakthroughs in energy storage technologies in the decade to come,” said Dr. Meng. (more…)
Congratulations to Muhammad Mominur Rahman of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) and Yang Yu of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the 2021 recipients of the Battery Division Student Research Award Sponsored by Mercedes-Benz Research & Development.
