Ankit Verma National Renewable Energy Laboratory Date: October 29, 2025 Time: 1300–1400h ET  

The Journal of The Electrochemical Society (JES) proudly celebrates the rapid success of the open access article “Understanding Lithium Deposition in Lithium-Ion Batteries: The Link between Impedance Results and Electrochemical Behavior.” In just a few short weeks since publication, this paper has risen to the top of JES’s Most Read Articles of 2025, capturing global attention for its clarity, rigor, and real-world relevance. Illuminating Lithium Deposition Lithium deposition, or plating, remains a major challenge in advancing lithium-ion batteries. When metallic…
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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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    The Electrochemical Society hosted “Development and Application of a 3-Electrode Setup for the Operando Detection of Side Reactions in Li-Ion Batteries,” a live webinar by Lennart Reuter and Leonhard J. Reinschlüssel (Technische Universität München), on August 6, 2025. A live Question and Answer session followed. Answers to some of the questions not addressed during the broadcast follow. Registration is required to view the webinar replay.

We’re thrilled to recognize one of the top-read articles in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society (JES): “Changes in Structure and Ionic Resistance of Lithium-Ion Battery Graphite Electrodes – Part I: Impact of Formation and SEI” by Jonas L. S. Dickmanns, Lennart Reuter, Robert Morasch, Filippo Maglia, Roland Jung, and Hubert A. Gasteiger. This study dives into the structural evolution of graphite electrodes during the formation process of lithium-ion batteries—particularly the development of the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI). The authors…
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Battery Division Early Career Award Sponsored by Neware Technology Limited Wednesday, October 15 | 1430h Salon A-4 (Lower Level, Hilton Chicago) Replacing Inactive Components to Improve Li- and Na-ion Cells By Michael Metzger Michael Metzger is the Herzberg-Dahn Chair for Advanced Battery Research and a Professor of Physics at Dalhousie University where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Modern Physics, Sustainable Energy, and Advanced Energy Storage. At Dalhousie, Dr. Metzger leads a diverse group of young researchers who work…
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  Carl Wagner Memorial Award Tuesday, October 14 | 1600h Conference Room 4C (Fourth Floor, Hilton Chicago) Electrochemical Approaches for Chemical Manufacturing by Paul J. A. Kenis Paul J. A. Kenis is a Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) where he holds the Elio E. Tarika Endowed Chair. He presently serves as Director of the School of Chemical Sciences. His research focuses on (1) electrochemical approaches for chemical manufacturing including ammonia oxidation and…
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