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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Battery Division M. Stanley Whittingham Mid-Career Award Tuesday, May 26 | 1700h Room 307, Seattle Convention Center – Arch Material Designs for Sustainable Aqueous Batteries by Yi-Chun Lu Yi-Chun Lu is Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Her research focuses on advancing clean energy storage and conversion through fundamental insights and innovative material design. Her group investigates electrode and electrolyte design for high-energy metal-air and metal-sulfur batteries, redox-active components and solution chemistry for redox-flow batteries, high-voltage aqueous…
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Allen J. Bard Award Wednesday, May 27 | 1030h Room 3B, Seattle Convention Center – Arch We Are Leaving Power & Energy on the Table: Electroanalytical & Architectural Insights by Debra R. Rolison Debra R. Rolison heads the Advanced Electrochemical Materials section at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Her team designs, synthesizes, characterizes, and applies 3D-structured, ultraporous, multifunctional, hold-in-your-hand nanoarchitectures for rate-critical applications such as catalysis and energy storage/conversion. Dr. Rolison was a Faculty Scholar at Florida Atlantic University,…
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Physicist Dr. Loraine Torres-Castro, Battery Safety Lead at Sandia National Laboratories, is serving as the lead organizer for the A01—New Approaches and Advances in Electrochemical Energy Systems Symposium at the 249th ECS Meeting in Seattle, WA, this spring. In a recent interview with ECS staff, Dr. Torres-Castro shared insights into the rewards and complexities of symposium leadership, encouraging colleagues to pursue similar roles. She is part of a dynamic new organizing team—which includes Dr. Yuliya Preger (Sandia National Laboratories)…
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All-solid-state batteries are widely viewed as a next-generation solution for safer and higher energy storage. But translating promising materials from the lab to large-scale manufacturing depends on more than performance alone—it also requires compatibility with real-world production environments. A new open-access article in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society examines how chloride-based solid-state electrolytes behave when exposed to dry room conditions commonly used in battery manufacturing. The study focuses on practical considerations that matter for scalability, offering valuable insight into how these materials respond outside ideal laboratory…
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Today’s guest post comes from Lutz Stratmann, Senior Electrochemist, and Richard Newell, Marketing Specialist and Technical Writer, of ECS Institutional Partner PalmSens BV, who share their perspective on advancing research, collaboration, and innovation in our scientific community. In developing the EmStat4T—our latest battery-powered potentiostat with a touchscreen and QR code reader—we wanted users to be able to make it truly their own. Customization often means writing scripts, but coding can be a major hurdle for many researchers. Our goal was…
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Congratulations to the fall ECS award winners! Their awards will be recognized at the 249th ECS Meeting in Seattle, WA, US, or at an upcoming ECS Section Meeting.
Congratulations to Georgia Tech PhD student Abiram Krishan! The 2025 Georgia Section Outstanding Student Achievement Award recognizes his contributions to advancing knowledge of battery redox mechanisms via advanced x-ray characterization techniques. Abiram Krishnan is a fifth-year PhD candidate in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Dr. Faisal Alamgir. His research explores the role of anion redox in metal-oxide cathodes for lithium ion batteries. In particular, he investigates how anions influence the stability…
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These ECS Awards, Fellowships, and Travel Grants are now accepting applications/nominations. Click on the award name for detailed information. ECS uses an electronic portal for all applications. Here are tips for the best results. Questions or concerns? Send a message; the team is ready to help!