219th ECS Meeting | Montreal, Canada | May 2, 2011 How Can One Tell if a Li-Ion Battery Will Last for Decades in Only Three Weeks of Testing? Lithium-ion batteries are the preferred power sources for portable electronics where a calendar lifetime of three years and a charge-discharge cycle life of 500 cycles are adequate. Li-ion batteries are now targeted for EV and grid energy storage applications where thousands of cycles and lifetimes of 10 and 30 years, respectively are desired….
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220th ECS Meeting | Boston, MA | Oct. 9, 2011 Energy and Personal Transportation We seek energy sources that are affordable, readily available, clean in terms of environmental concerns, and sustainable. Although automobiles emit far less unwanted emissions than in the past, personal transportation is challenged in that nonrenewable petroleum, which supplies about a third of the world’s energy needs, is used almost exclusively for transportation purposes. Great progress has been made in recent years relative to traction battery technology,…
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221st ECS Meeting | Seattle, WA | May 7, 2012 Will It Be a Tank of Lithium to Drive Our Next Car?” Back in 1800, when Alessandro Volta, professor at the University of Pavia in Italy, unveiled his “electric pile” to Napoleon Bonaparte, he could not have imagined that his invention—mainly the fruit of a dispute with his colleague-competitor Luigi Galvani at University of Bologna—would have opened a route that, via various progressive technological evolution steps, did eventually lead to the…
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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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For projects in green energy technology ECS, in partnership with the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA)—a Toyota Motor North America (Toyota) R&D division that explores future technology—requests proposals from young professors and scholars pursuing innovative electrochemical research in green energy technology. Population growth, increased production of vehicles, and the global development of industry and technology in the 20th century have resulted in massive consumption of fossil fuels. Today, the automotive industry faces three challenges regarding environmental and energy...
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Do not forget that the IMLB 2016 abstract submission site is scheduled to close this Friday, January 15! In order to make things easier for you, we will keep the submission system open through the day of Monday, January 18. Please make sure to get your abstract in as soon as possible so you can present your latest work to lithium-ion battery researchers from around the world. Don’t miss your chance to participate in IMLB 2016, make sure to submit…
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ECS Treasurer | 2014–2018 E. Jennings (EJ) Taylor is Chief Technical Officer and Intellectual Property Director at Faraday Technology Inc., an electro-chemical engineering company that he founded in 1991. His vision for Faraday was to explore the possibilities of pulse and pulse reverse electrolysis and shift the focus of electrochemical process technologies from chemical additions and often hazardous electrolytes to “electric field” control with simple, environmentally benign electrolytes. With contributions from a very talented Faraday staff, Dr. Taylor has collaborated…
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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. 2019 Electrochemical Conference on Energy and the Environment: Bioelectrochemistry and Energy Storage (ECEE 2019) July 21-26, 2019 | Glasgow, Scotland 2015 ECS Conference on Electrochemical Energy Conversion & Storage with SOFC–XIV July 26-31, 2015 | Glasgow, Scotland 2014 ECEE 2014: Electrochemical Conference on Energy &…
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Solving global energy needs With population growth and industrialization, global energy needs continue to grow as well. Economic, political, and environmental issues are largely dictated by energy needs. The fifth international ECS Electrochemical Energy Summit (E2S) is designed to foster an exchange between leading policy makers and energy experts about society needs and technological energy solutions. (MORE: Watch videos of the presentations.) The E2S program focused around solar critical issues and renewable energy. It was held on Monday, October 12...
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Benefactor Partners BioLogic, Knoxville, TN, US Duracell US Operations, Inc., Bethel, CT, US Gamry Instruments, Warminster, PA, US PalmSens BV, Houten, Netherlands Pine Research Instrumentation, Durham, NC, US Scribner, LLC, Southern Pines, NC, US Patron Partners easyXAFS, LLC, Renton, WA, US Energizer Battery, Westlake, OH, US Faraday Technology, Inc., Clayton, OH, US GE Aerospace Research, Niskayuna, NY, US   Hydro-Québec, Varennes, QC, Canada Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA, US Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA), Ann Arbor, MI,...
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