The 2024 Battery Safety Workshop takes place at the University of South Carolina from Aug 5-6, 2024. Since 2022, this annual workshop has provided an informative and inclusive forum to discuss state-of-the-art research progress in the battery safety area. Attendees include scientists, researchers, and engineers in academia and industry to inspire collaborative and synergic efforts toward solving battery safety issues.
The Electrochemical Society is a proud sponsor of the workshop.
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Congratulations to the spring ECS award winners. Through Society Awards, Division Awards, Student Awards, and Section Awards, the Society’s Honors & Awards Program commemorates outstanding technical achievements in electrochemical and solid state science and technology, and recognizes exceptional service to the Society.
Congratulations to the 2024 ECS Canada Section Student Award winners, Anu Adamson, Dalhousie University, for her contributions to the understanding and eliminating self-discharge in Li-ion and Na-ion batteries, and Shipeng Jia, McGill University, for contributions to the field of electrochemistry and energy storage materials and excellent achievements in advancing sodium and lithium-ion battery research.
ECS named 13 new members to the 2024 class of Fellows of The Electrochemical Society. Every year since the honorary designation was founded in 1989, up to 15 members are selected as Fellows in recognition of their outstanding scientific achievements, leadership, and active participation in ECS affairs.
The 2024 ECS Fellows are (listed alphabetically):
Pennington, NJ – The Electrochemical Society (ECS) congratulates the recipients of the 2024 Colin Garfield Fink Fellowship and ECS Summer Fellowships: Dr. Maha Yusuf of Princeton University received the Colin Garfield Fink Fellowship; Raul A. Marquez of the University of Texas at Austin received the Edward G. Weston Fellowship; Courtney J. Weber of University of South Carolina received the Joseph W. Richards Fellowship; Po-Wei Huang of the Georgia Institute of Technology received the F. M. Becket Fellowship; and Ridwan Ayinla from Mississippi State University received the H. H. Uhlig Fellowship. (more…)
Eleven new student chapters in Canada, China, Mexico, Poland, Turkey, UK, and US were chartered at the ECS Board of Directors May 30 meeting, bringing the total number of chapters around the world to 147!
Join us in welcoming the new chapters into our supportive, global community. (more…)
The ECS Board of Directors chartered a new ECS section in Thailand at their May 30, 2024, meeting. With the addition of the ECS Thailand Section, the Society now hosts over 25 region-specific sections providing opportunities for regional scientists and engineers to connect with researchers and participate in various events.
The ECS Thailand Section is the only designated entity in Thailand supporting electrochemical professionals and students. With the expansion of renewable energy, sustainability, and interest in the field of electrochemistry and solid state science, the section is eager to recruit members, support this growing community, and promote ECS activities. (more…)
Students and postdoctoral researchers interested in careers in electrochemistry and solid state science are invited to the ECS Pacific Northwest Section’s Industry & Careers Day. To promote careers in electrochemistry, this event connects participants with industry and national laboratory representatives. Presenters provide insights into their career experiences, skills valued in potential job candidates, and upcoming opportunities in the rapidly expanding electrochemical, solid state, and related technologies fields.
Confirmed industry participants include Microsoft, Forge Nano Inc., Presidio Medical, AbbVie Inc., H10 Capital, John Deere, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Congratulations to the 2024 San Francisco Section Daniel Cubicciotti Student Award Recipient, Justin C. Bui of the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The award recognizes his outstanding work on developing continuum models, understanding the impact of transport and catalysis in bipolar ion-conducting polymer membranes, and elucidating the influence of the microenvironment on the activity and selectivity for the electrochemical reduction of CO2.
Justin C. Bui is a fifth year PhD candidate at UC Berkeley and researcher in the Liquid Sunlight Alliance U.S. Department of Energy Hub at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Justin earned his BS in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University, working with Prof. Daniel Esposito to fabricate membrane-less electrolyzers for sustainable hydrogen production from seawater. At Berkeley, Justin’s research with Prof. Alexis Bell and Dr. Adam Weber focuses on the use of continuum-level theory to understand the impact of transport and catalysis in bipolar ion-conducting polymer membranes, as well as to elucidate the influence of the catalytic microenvironment on the activity and selectivity of carbon dioxide (CO2) electroreduction to value-added chemical products. Throughout his PhD, Justin worked closely with experimentalists to drastically advance the development of carbon capture and conversion devices. Justin received prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) research fellowships. Outside of the lab, Justin developed inclusive, experiential curricula to introduce K-12 students to electrochemistry. He will soon start as a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology, working with Prof. Karthish Manthiram to develop electrochemical reactors capable of oxidatively activating nitrogen to make plastics and fertilizer precursors directly from air. (more…)
