You are invited to participate in “Solid State Batteries,” a free webinar cohosted by the Materials Research Society (MRS) and The Electrochemical Society. The webinar is presented in conjunction with the December 2023 issue of MRS Bulletin. Date: January 17, 2024 Time: 1200–1330h ET

We are pleased to announce the winners of 244th ECS Meeting symposia-funded best-presentation awards! Thanks to our individual symposium sponsors’ generous funding, best poster and presentation awards are presented at every meeting. Please take a moment to celebrate the excellent work of the following authors!

Topic Close-up #10 Symposium: M03—Sensors for Energy Production, Conversion, and Storage For more information on 245th ECS Meeting symposia, consult additional topic close-ups. Deadline for submitting abstracts: December 1, 2023

The following ECS Awards have nomination deadlines from December 2023 through February 2024. Click on the links below for further information. ECS uses an electronic portal for all applications. Review these tips for the best results. Questions or concerns? Contact us; we are here to help.

Join the ECS San Diego Student Chapter and the ECS San Francisco Section for Dr. John Muldoon’s November 17, 2023, presentation, “An Odyssey Through the Uncharted Waters of Post Lithium-Ion Batteries.”  Abstract Advanced energy storage technologies such as lithium-ion batteries have enabled the development of ubiquitous portable electronic devices and are critical to the development and widespread adoption of practical electric vehicles. While lithium-ion batteries represent the most advanced energy storage technology currently available commercially, the desire for significant improvement…
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Prestigious student awards presented at ECS 244th Meeting Congratulations to Gustavo Hobold, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and KyuJung Jun, University of California, Berkeley, winners of the 2023 ECS Battery Division Student Research Award Sponsored by Mercedes-Benz Research and Development. Hobold and Jun presented their award talks at the 244th ECS Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden. Gustavo Hobold Massachusetts Institute of Technology A07—0984   Quantitative SEI-based Descriptors For Li metal Liquid Electrolyte Design Gustavo M. Hobold is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering…
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Topic Close-up #4 Symposium: B01—Carbon Nanostructures for Energy Conversion and Storage For more information on 245th ECS Meeting symposia, consult additional topic close-ups. Deadline for submitting abstracts: December 1, 2023

The Center for Automotive Research (CAR) is conducting the Workforce Skills Assessment of the North American Lithium Ion (Li) Battery Industry in October and November 2023. CAR seeks input from individuals and companies to provide important insights about the skills and training needs for current and future employees. The assessment’s goal is to gain a better understanding of the evolving employment needs within companies across the battery industry and identify any skills gaps that may be supported by further training…
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Please join ECS in celebrating our China: Top Cited Paper Awards winning authors. Our publishing partner, IOP, presents these awards to papers in the top one percent (1%) of the most-cited articles recently published in IOP journals with corresponding authors based in China. The top cited papers are identified based on data from Clarivate’s Web of Science during the period of 2020 to 2022. We congratulate all the China: Top Cited Paper Awards authors on their outstanding achievements and are proud to…
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Sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific  The ECS Pacific Northwest Section is pleased to announce that Chih-Hsuan (Doris) Hung of the University of Washington received the 2023 Pacific Northwest Section Electrochemistry Student Award Sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific.  The award recognizes Hung’s contributions to modeling, analysis, and design of three-dimensional Lithium ion batteries (LIBs) and her contributions to K-12 education through the development and dissemination of science and engineering educational materials with an emphasis on clean energy and inclusivity.