This from Scientific American: A team of Stanford University researchers, including former Energy Secretary Steven Chu, believes it has achieved the “holy grail” of lithium battery design: an anode of pure lithium that could boost the range of an electric car to 300 miles. Lithium-ion batteries are one of the most common types of rechargeable batteries on the market today. But most of the batteries—found in technologies like smartphones and electric cars—use an anode made of graphite or silicon. Read…
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ECS members are now eligible for a special discounted rate on EL-CELL’s seminar programs. The first, a hands-on seminar on basic battery research will be offered November 6 & 7, 2014 at the EL-CELL facility in Hamburg, Germany. The second, a hands-on seminar on advanced battery research will be offered March 12 & 13, 2015, also in Hamburg, Germany. Johannes Hinckeldeyn, Director of Sales and Marketing at EL-CELL, explains the strong collaboration with ECS, “EL-CELL wants to become the standard…
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Below is a question raised in a discussion going on in our LinkedIn group. Consider joining. I am looking for pressure sensor monitoring in a battery pack so that I can track the volume expansion of polymer or prismatic cells in a battery pack. Is anyone aware of any vendors that can provide samples of such sensors in consumer applications? We have over 3,600 members in the group, ready to discuss. If you have the answer to the above question,…
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One of the goals of this blog is to share some of the content we swap with each other in the office and with members around the world. And we are not just talking sharing information that we are publishing. It’s anything we find interesting. Here’s a perfect case, Logan, who’s an editorial assistant here, emailed me this article from ChemistryWorld about a super stretchy battery with a video: Lithium ion batteries that can be stretched by 600% have been…
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The ECS Twin Cities Section invites you to its annual symposium at Hamline University. Join us for student poster presentations, an invited technical talk, and a light meal to fuel your mind and body. Date & Time: Tuesday, October 28, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. Location: Anderson Center 112, Hamline University, 1536 Hewitt Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55104 Registration is free. To help prepare for the event, please RSVP here by Sunday, October 12.

Pennington, NJ – Wesley Chang, Jovan Kamcev, Jeffrey Lopez, Gioele Pagot, and Evan Wenbo Zhao are the 2025–2026 recipients of the ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowships for innovative projects in green energy technology. The program is a partnership between The Electrochemical Society and the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA), a division of Toyota Motor North America R&D. Through the fellowships, ECS and Toyota promote innovative and unconventional green energy technologies born from electrochemical research—and encourage young professionals and scholars to pursue battery and...
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Ines Hamam Technologist BMW Date: September 17, 2025 Time: 1000-1100h ET

The Electrochemical Society (ECS) proudly celebrates the remarkable service and scholarly contributions of Dr. Nae-Lih (Nick) Wu of National Taiwan University. A dedicated ECS member since 2001, Dr. Wu is an active participant in the ECS Battery Division and valued member of the ECS Taiwan Section. An influential voice in our community for over two decades, his ECS colleagues know him affectionately as “Nick.” As Dr. Wu approaches the conclusion of his distinguished 12-year term as an Associate Editor for…
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