243rd ECS Meeting Topic Close-up: Z02 – Electrochemical/Materials Processing for Space Engineering

Symposium focus: NASA’s Artemis Program aims at a more sustainable means for space exploration and in situ resource utilization. The Electrochemical Society will organize the symposium with TMS (the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society). The following subjects are expected:

• Microgravity Science with Drop Tower, Rocket, ISS, as well as in Magnetic Field (Nucleation and Growth of Ice, Protein or Semiconductor, Gas Electrode Behavior)
• Energy Conversion and Storage and Transport (URFC, LIB, MOXIE, Nuclear Battery, SSPS)
• Sensor Systems for Rover Engineering and X-ray Astrophysics
• Life Supporting, Desalination Technology, and CO₂ Reduction with Inert Anode
• ISRU, Materials Processing, ISS-ELF, Hybrid Additive Manufacturing, Ion Engine
• Global Environmental Observation System

Expected Speakers:

• Donald R. Sadoway, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Jeffrey Hoffman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Vadim Lukovic, NASA Glenn Research Center
• Takehiko Ishikawa, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
• Katharina Brinkert, University of Warwick
• Álvaro Romero-Calvo, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Y. Shirley Meng, University of Chicago
• Robert Kostecki, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Timo Jacob, Universität Ulm
• Greg Jackson, Colorado School of Mines
• Thomas Fuller, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Santosh Vijapur, Faraday Technology Inc.
• Ratnakumar Bugga, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
• Robert W. Hyers, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Antoine Allanore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Consult the Call for Papers for more information.