Mark J. Willey Battery Materials and Systems Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) University of Washington, Seattle Date: May 3, 2022 Time: 1000–1100h PT Price: There is no cost to register for this event, but registration is required. Registration: You must preregister through ECS My Account. Don’t have one? It’s easy to create—visit Create an Account now. The webinar is open to the public; ECS membership is not required.

Ion Storage Systems (ION), the battery technology company founded by ECS President Eric Wachsman, announced the initial closing of its $30 million Series A financing round. Clear Creek Investments, VoLO Earth Ventures, and Alsop Louie Partners led the investment. With the funding, ION will commission and qualify a battery cell manufacturing line capable of producing 10MWh/yr of safe, energy dense and versatile solid state batteries. Ion Storage Systems ION started in Dr. Wachsman’s University of Maryland chemistry lab with a…
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Topic Close-up #13 Symposium A05: Battery Recycling and Reuse Extended Deadline for Submitting Abstracts: December 17, 2021 Symposium focus:  From portable electronics to electric vehicles and renewable energy storage, batteries continue to deeply penetrate our daily life and industrial uses. With the rapid increase of battery usage, a huge amount of spent batteries will be generated in the coming years. At the same time, booming battery manufacturing will result in the resource shortage and price increase of critical metals such…
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The Electrochemical Society hosted Prof. Raphaële J. Clément’s live online webinar, “From order to disorder: NMR insights into ionic conduction in battery materials,” on October 27, 2021. Below are answers to questions posed during the presentation. NOTE: Registration is required to view the webinar. Raphaële Clément is an Assistant Professor in the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), U.S. She received her PhD in Chemistry in 2016 from the University of Cambridge, UK, working under the supervision…
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced $209 million in funding for 26 new laboratory projects focusing on electric vehicles, advanced batteries, and connected vehicles. DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory introduced Li-Bridge, a new public-private partnership to bridge gaps in the domestic lithium battery supply chain. Advanced lithium-based batteries play an integral role in 21st century technologies such as electric vehicles, stationary grid storage, and defense applications that are critical to securing a clean energy future. The projects support goals…
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