228th ECS Meeting | Phoenix, AZ | Oct. 12, 2015 Wealth, Global Warming and Geoengineering Adam Heller’s work in electrochemical engineering has touched the lives of people across the globe. As the inventor of the painless diabetes blood monitor, his developments in healthcare have had enormous societal and economic impact. Heller’s work spans a range of technologies, touching areas related to battery and energy—including solar cells, the lithium battery, and photoelectrocatalysis. Heller’s journey though the sciences took flight in 1961, when...
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ECS President | 2019-2020 ECS Vice President | 2016-2019 Christina Bock is Senior Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) where she has served as technical leader for NRC’s “Energy Storage for the Renewal of the Electrical Grid Program” and was directly involved in establishing and leading a NRC-industry consortium on the value chain of Lithium-ion batteries.  She still leads an R&D team on Energy Storage Materials and Formulations at the NRC. Her research at the NRC…
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ECS Satellite Conferences ECS Satellite Conferences are exciting events that bring together scientists from all over the world at key locations to discuss the most recent research and innovations on special topics and scientific initiatives. 2024 2024 Electrochemistry Gordon Research Conference January 7-12, 2024 – Ventura, California, USA Four Points Sheraton 2023 18th International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC-XVIII) May 28-June 2, 2023 — In-person and Digital Meeting StorageX International Symposium Series Ongoing Fridays in 2023 – Virtual…
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Addressing issues in global sanitation ECS has awarded over $210,000 of seed funding to four innovative research projects addressing critical technology gaps in water, sanitation, and hygiene challenges being faced around the world. In its first Science for Solving Society’s Problems Challenge, ECS partnered with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to leverage the brainpower of the many scientists in electrochemistry and solid state science and technology that regularly attend ECS meetings. The four grantees were identified during a multi-day...
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The deadline for nominations for the Edward Goodrich Acheson Award has been extended to March 1, 2016. The Edward Goodrich Acheson Award, one of the oldest and most prestigious ECS honors, was established in 1928 for distinguished contributions to the advancement of any of the objects, purposes or activities of The Electrochemical Society. Read the nomination rules. The recipient shall be a longstanding member of and established volunteer leader within ECS.  He or she will also be distinguished for contributions…
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Tri-Generation of Heat, Power, and Potable Water from Waste Dr. Wachsman’s project will demonstrate a highly-efficient, low-cost solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) for the co-generation of high quality heat for dewatering and drying processes, electric power and potable water using waste-produced biogas. The technology will be based on low-temperature SOFCs, optimized for heat production rather than electric power. The SOFC stack will use anodes which are both carbon and sulfur tolerant at lower temperatures to allow for thermal cycling and…
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A Fully Cardboard Based Microbial Fuel Cell Dr. Harnisch’s project that he conducts in collaboration with Dr. Schröder (TU Braunschweig) proposes to develop a fully cardboard based, low-cost, high-performance, ready-to-use, sustainable microbial fuel cell which could clean wastewater while generating clean water and electric energy. The core of the microbial fuel cell is electrodes produced form corrugated cardboard via a simple carbonization procedure. The project will develop corrugated cardboard electrodes to be used as anode and cathode material which could…
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ECS President | 1908-1909 Edward Goodrich Acheson, a charter member and President of the Society (1908-1909), was born in Washington, PA, on March 9, 1856. From the age of 30 to 70, he received 69 patents on devices, techniques, and compositions of matter in the fields of mechanics, electricity, electrochemistry, and colloid chemistry. His father’s death required Acheson to start work at the age of 16 to help support his family. He held various railroad jobs, performing scientific work and…
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ECS President | 1916-1917 Francis Alexander James FitzGerald was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1870. He was the eldest son of a prominent Dublin physician. He received his early education in Ireland and England and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin University in 1892 (B.A.). He was that year’s Moderator and Medalist in Experimental Physics. He came to the United States in 1893 to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduating in 1895 (B.S. Electrical). Shortly after graduating from M.I.T., he…
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ECS President | 1918-1919 Frank Jerome Tone was born in Bergen, New York on October 6, 1868. He received an Electrical Engineering degree from Cornell University in 1891 and a Doctor of Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1935. He worked for the General Electric Company from 1891 to 1893 and the Pittsburgh Railroad Company 1893- 1895. In 1895, he became Works Manager and President of Carborundum Company and was elected Chairman of the Board in 1942. His contributions…
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