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.

Division Awards Battery Division Early Career Award Sponsored by Neware Wednesday, 1500h / Room A2 Towards Scalable and Sustainable Battery Recycling for Circular Energy Storage by Zheng Chen Zheng Chen is Associate Professor in the Department of Nano and Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on understanding the fundamental properties of electrochemical interfaces and structures as well as designing materials and processes for more efficient and sustainable energy storage…
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Pennington, NJ – Yaocai Bai and Yuzhang Li received the 2023–2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowships for projects in green energy technology. The fellowship program is a partnership between The Electrochemical Society and the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA), a division of Toyota North America’s (TMNA) Advanced Mobility R&D. Through this program, ECS and Toyota promote innovative and unconventional green energy technologies born from electrochemical research—and encourage young professionals and scholars to pursue battery and fuel cell research. This is the ninth year…
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Carl Wagner Memorial Award Tuesday, 1700h / Room F6 (Level 2) Free Electrons to Molecular Bonds and Back – The Dark Side of Solar Fuels and Chemicals by Peter Strasser Peter Strasser is Chaired Professor of Electrochemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the Technische Universität Berlin. Electrocatalysis is a central theme of his career, with interests ranging from electrocatalytic oscillations to high throughput catalyst discovery and the fundamental understanding of electrified catalytic interfaces for clean energy technologies. Prof. Strasser…
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Congratulations to the 2023 Industrial Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Engineering Division student award winners – Barirav Sabarish Vishnugopi and Lauren Clarke. Keep reading to learn more about the winners!

Pennington, NJ – The Electrochemical Society (ECS) has named 15 members to the 2023 Class of ECS Fellows. The designation “Fellow of The Electrochemical Society” was established in 1989 for advanced individual technological contributions to the fields of electrochemistry and solid state science and technology, and for service to the Society. These members are recognized for scientific achievements, leadership, and active participation in the affairs of ECS. Each year, their peers choose up to 15 renowned scientists and engineers for this honor….
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Dr. Venkat Subramanian Ernest Dashiell Cockrell II Professor of Engineering Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering & Material Science Engineering Affiliated Faculty, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences Texas Materials Institute The University of Texas, Austin Date: August 2, 2023 Time: 1300–1400h ET Sponsor: BioLogic, TA Instruments – Waters, Hiden Analytical