50+ year Society member pioneered electrochemistry Pennington, NJ – The Electrochemical Society (ECS) is sad to announce the passing of our colleague and friend, Allen J. Bard, on February 11, 2024. Throughout his career, Allen was a beloved and respected member of the ECS community as an author, Fellow, awardee, editor, meeting participant and organizer, and more.  “Allen’s contributions to the advancement of electrochemistry and science are extraordinary, and his dedication to the advancement of many generations of younger scientists…
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Arumugam Manthiram George T. and Gladys H. Abell Endowed Chair of Engineering The University of Texas at Austin Date: September 20, 2023 Time: 1000–1100h ET Sponsors: EL-Cell, BioLogic, TA Instruments – Waters, WITec

Gather with your colleagues! The plenary session is one of the highlights of every ECS meeting, when participants from all symposia come together to celebrate some of the greatest minds in the field. ECS President Turgut Gür wraps up the first full day of the 243rd ECS Meeting with SOFC-XVIII by welcoming meeting attendees and introducing the highly anticipated ECS Lecture by Linda L. Horton, Associate Director of Science for Basic Energy Sciences (BES) in the U.S. Department of Energy…
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Allen J. Bard Award Tuesday, 1410h / Hynes Convention Center – Room 202 Toward Electrochemical Energy Conversion Via Metal-Organic Framework Materials by Joseph Hupp Joseph Hupp is the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University. His research centers on energy- and defense-relevant materials chemistry, including design and synthesis of materials for chemical separations, chemical catalysis, electrocatalysis, light-to-electrical energy conversion, artificial photosynthesis, storage and release of molecular hydrogen, and capture and destruction of chemical warfare agents….
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Battery Division Early Career Award Sponsored by Neware Technology Limited Monday, 1000h/Galleria 1 Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Cathode Microstructures in Lithium Batteries by Feng Lin Feng Lin is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Virginia Tech. His research covers the design and synthesis, processing, characterization, and applications of energy materials in electrochemical systems, including batteries, catalysis, and smart windows. His research team has also established an integral analytical program to study materials dynamics under operating conditions using operando synchrotron…
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Gather with your colleagues! The plenary session is a highlight of every ECS meeting. Participants from all symposia come together to celebrate some of the greatest minds in the field. ECS President Turgut Gür wraps up the first full day of the 242nd ECS Meeting, welcomes meeting attendees and introduces the highly anticipated lecturer, Nobel laureate M. Stanley Whittingham from Binghamton University. Prof. Whittingham presents “The Critical Role of Energy Storage in the Electric Economy and Overcoming Climate Change.” These Society…
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(Michael) Stanley Whittingham was born in Nottingham, England, in 1941. The longtime Society member and ECS Fellow won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in developing lithium ion batteries. He shared the prize with John Goodenough and Akira Yoshino. At the University of Oxford, Whittingham completed a BA in Chemistry (1964), and MA (1967) and PhD (1968) in Solid State Chemistry. He came to the U.S. in 1968 to pursue a postgraduate fellowship at Stanford University. In…
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The Electrochemical Society is proud to announce the Society’s distinguished members recognized as 2021 Highly Cited Researchers. The prestigious list, published by the Web of Science Group at Clarivate Analytics, identifies scientists and social scientists who produced multiple papers ranking in the top 1 percent by citations for their field and year of publication, demonstrating significant research influence among their peers. The total number of highly cited researchers in 2021 was 6,602, which includes 2,828 for cross-field performance and 3,774 in…
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ECS empowers researchers at the forefront of discovery Marm Dixit was a grad student at the 236th ECS Meeting in Atlanta, GA. John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino had just won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing lithium ion batteries. “A couple of my friends and I were getting coffee. Stan (Whittingham) was in line in front of us. So for the 15 minutes, till we got our coffee, we discussed batteries with the Nobel laureate….
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Battery Division Technology Award A Path Toward Sustainable Battery Technologies by Arumugam Manthiram, University of Texas at Austin Arumugam Manthiram is the Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering, and Director of the Texas Materials Institute at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin). He joined UT-Austin’s Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty in 1991 after receiving his PhD in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (1981) and postdocs at the University of Oxford and UT-Austin. His research is focused…
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