Ines Hamam
Technologist
BMW
Date: September 17, 2025
Time: 1000-1100h ET
The Electrochemical Society hosted Kyle C. Smith’s live webinar, “Intercalation-Based Desalination and Carbon Capture for Water and Climate Sustainability” on May 7, 2025. A live Question and Answer (Q&A) session followed. Dr. Smith’s written answers to questions not addressed during the broadcast are below. Learn more about the speaker and his topic here.
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The Electrochemical Society hosted Dr. Toby Bond’s webinar, “The Complex and Spatially Heterogeneous Nature of Degradation in Heavily Cycled Li-ion Cells,” on April 23, 2025. A live Question and Answer (Q&A) session followed. Dr. Bond’s written answers to some questions not addressed during the broadcast follow.
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Kyle C. Smith
Associate Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Date: May 7, 2025
Time: 1300-1400h ET
The Electrochemical Society hosted Peter Attia’s live webinar, “Enabling battery quality at scale,” on September 18, 2024. A live Question and Answer session followed. Dr. Attia’s answers to questions not addressed during the broadcast follow.
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Join the ECS Detroit Section for Dr. Gong Liang Li’s presentation, “Innovative materials and electrochemical technologies in solid oxide fuel cell, solid state battery, and other electrochemical devices,” on November 14, 2023.
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