Joint research from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the Council for Scientific Research reports the development of a new ceramic electrode for lithium-ion batteries that can lead to cheaper, more efficient, and safer conventional batteries. “What we have patented are new ceramic electrodes that are much safer and can work in a wider temperature interval,” says Alejandro Varez, co-author of the research. To achieve this result, the researchers made ceramic sheets by way of thermoplastic extrusion molds. “This…
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Graphene could offer a new way to cool tiny chips in phones, computers, and other gadgets. “You can fit graphene, a very thin, two-dimensional material that can be miniaturized, to cool a hot spot that creates heating problems in your chip,” says Eva Y. Andrei, a physics professor at Rutgers University. “This solution doesn’t have moving parts and it’s quite efficient for cooling.” As electronics get smaller and more powerful, there’s an increasing need to for chip-cooling solutions. Researcher show…
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Over 4,000 technical presentations by researchers from around the globe Pennington, NJ – (Sept. 14, 2016) – Three scientific societies will hold their joint scientific meeting, known as PRiME 2016, from Oct. 2-7, in Honolulu, HI. This is the largest, most significant research conference of its kind in the world, and would not be possible without the joint effort of The Electrochemical Society, The Electrochemical Society of Japan, and our newest partner, The Korean Electrochemical Society. PRiME 2016 will include...
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Papers and presentations John B. Goodenough 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry John B. Goodenough was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino "for the development of lithium-ion batteries." His current research explores the relationships between the chemical, structural and electrical properties of solids, addressing fundamental solid state problems in order to design new materials that can enable an engineering function. Goodenough received the Royal Society’s Copley Medal, the Japan Prize, National Medal of...
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The 2017 ECS Twin Cities Section Symposium will take place Friday, April 7 in Saint Paul, MN. Attendance is free and includes talks, lunch, and the Innovation Center Tour showing hundreds of 3M technologies, and a poster session. Register for the symposium. Confirmed speakers: Johna Leddy, University of Iowa Electrochemically Silent Films on Electrodes – Means and Methods Electrochemically inert films on electrodes alter properties of transport, selectivity, and kinetics to enable new devices and measurement methods. Examples include: density…
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Chemists have engineered a molecule that uses light or electricity to convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide—a carbon-neutral fuel source—more efficiently than any other method of “carbon reduction.” “If you can create an efficient enough molecule for this reaction, it will produce energy that is free and storable in the form of fuels,” says study leader and Liang-shi Li, associate professor in the chemistry department at Indiana University Bloomington. “This study is a major leap in that direction.” Burning fuel—such…
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Take the time to honor and support your friends and colleagues, be sure to add the division award winners’ talks to your calendar, they are scheduled in various symposia throughout the week. Dielectric Science and Technology Division Thomas D. Callinan Award Monday, May 29 | 1400-1440h Norwich Dielectrics for MOS Integrated Circuits By Hiroshi Iwai Hiroshi Iwai has worked in the semiconductor industry for 26 years. After receiving BE and PhD degrees from the University of Tokyo, he worked at…
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Sometimes the biggest advancements are the smallest in size. A multidisciplinary team from Sandia National Laboratories recently demonstrated that notion by using nanoparticles and a nanoconfinement system to improve the performance of hydrogen storage materials. The researchers believe that this development is a step in the right direction to improve efficiency of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles. Currently, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles store hydrogen as a high-pressure gas. However, the researchers argue that a solid material would be able…
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The Electrochemical Society was founded 115 years ago as the American Electrochemical Society. That’s based on the inaugural meeting held April 3-5, 1902 in Philadelphia, PA. Twenty papers were presented and recorded in Transactions of the American Electrochemical Society, Vol. 1, No. 1. You could say the Society was born out of the indifference of what was known at the time as the Council of the American Chemical Society. Around this time, ACS took no action on a proposal to…
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Researchers from Oregon State university have developed the first battery that uses only hydronium ions as the charge carrier, which the team believes could yield promising results for the future of sustainable energy storage. Particularly, the researchers are interested in the area of stationary storage. This type of energy storage primarily refers to on-grid storage to harness power from intermittent sources, such as wind or solar, for later use in general distribution. Stationary energy storage is vital for the energy…
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