Honolulu, Hawaii, October 17-22, 1999, Hilton Hawaiian Village The 1999 Joint International Meeting combines the 196th Meeting of The Electrochemical Society and the 1999 fall meeting of The Electrochemical Society of Japan (ECSJ) and is technically cosponsored by The Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP). This major international conference offers a unique blend of electrochemical and solid-state science and technology. The 1999 Joint International Meeting continues this tradition of the 1987 and 1993 Hawaii Meetings and serves as a major conference for...
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By now you’ve probably heard of the big merger between automotive innovator Tesla and rooftop solar guru SolarCity. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, claims that the integration will create “the world’s first vertically integrated energy company,” set to offer the full spectrum of clean energy products to customers. While both companies have gotten a lot of attention from investors over the years, there has been a lot of skepticism when it comes to the financial future of the joining of…
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Michael Faraday is a household name to those in the science, but the breadth and depth of his pioneering work is sometimes overlooked in lieu of modern day developments. In an effort to preserve and highlight the enormous impact of Faraday’s work, the UNESCO has announced that the pillar of electrochemistry’s notebooks (held by the Royal Institution) have been added to the UK Memory of the World Register. The Memory of the World Register was established in 1992 and is…
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University of Iowa researchers have teamed up with California-based startup HyperSolar to progress the science in producing clean energy from sunlight and water. The goal of this research is to develop a way to efficiently and sustainably produce low-cost renewable hydrogen for commercial use. Hydrogen has huge potential as an alternative form of energy. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, hydrogen has the highest energy content of any fuel we use today (carbon dependent fuels included). But hydrogen is…
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An odd partnership emerged at the Waste EXPO 2016 as truck manufacturer Mack Trucks and Tesla Motors joined forces to introduce an electrified garbage truck based on Mack’s LR model. The innovative car manufacturer outfitted the truck with a regenerative braking system, which allows the truck to recharge its battery while it operates. Because of the frequent stopping and start of a garbage truck’s engine, a significant amount of energy is wasted in its day-to-day operation. “We don’t make vehicles,…
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A team of researchers from Iceland is looking to fight climate change by turning greenhouse gases into rocks. A recent paper published in Science details how researchers have been able to capture carbon emissions and lock them in the ground, transforming them from harmful atmospheric greenhouse gases to volcanic rock. “Our results show that between 95 and 98 percent of the injected carbon dioxide was mineralized over the period of less than two years, which is amazingly fast,” said lead…
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Sponsored by MTI Corporation and the Jiang Family Foundation Nomination period: October 15 through January 15, annually Presented: ECS fall meeting, annually The ECS Battery Division Postdoctoral Associate Research Award Sponsored by MTI Corporation and the Jiang Family Foundation was established in 2016 to encourage excellence among postdoctoral researchers in battery and fuel cell research and to recognize recent achievements or contributions to the field that can be expected to have an impact on future research and development. The award’s...
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We may understand melanin best as the pigment that dictates our skin tone, but these pigments are actually super plentiful – existing in almost every organism on earth. While melanin is all around us, there is still much to learn about its chemical structure. A group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University set out to better understand melanin, and in doing so, found that its chemical structure may be conducive to creating certain kinds of batteries. “Functionally, different types of…
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Sharing solutions to today’s most pressing global issues Pennington, NJ – (May 17, 2016) – The Electrochemical Society will be in San Diego May 29 – June 2 hosting the 229th ECS Meeting at the Hilton Bayfront and San Diego Convention Center. Over 2,400 attendees will discuss topics in batteries and energy storage, corrosion science and technology, electronics, fuel cells and energy conversion, carbon nanostructures, sensors, and more. The 229th ECS Meeting is a forum for sharing the latest scientific…
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Ellen Ivers-Tiffée has been a researcher in the field of functional ceramics for the energy sector for more than three decades, with her focus being on electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices. Currently, she heads the Institute of Applied Materials – Materials for Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Karlsruche Institute of Technology in Germany. Previously, she has worked with such notable companies as Siemens AG, Corporate Research and Technology, and the Center of Applied Materials Research. Her research aims at…
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