The ECS Twin Cities Section held its 2022 Officer Election in March. Thank you to everyone who voted in the election; and thank you to the new officers for serving their section. Announcing the new ECS Twin Cities Section officers Chair: Victoria Gelling, Sherwin-Williams Vice Chair: Vincent Chevrier, Partner, Cyclikal; CTO, Trion Secretary: Peter Zhang, Medtronic Treasurer: Hui Ye, Medtronic Members-at-Large: Bill Howard, ECS Emeritus Member Lifeng Dong, Hamline University Alan Shi, Medtronic Delenn Fingerlow, Sherwin-Williams

(Michael) Stanley Whittingham was born in Nottingham, England, in 1941. The longtime Society member and ECS Fellow won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in developing lithium ion batteries. He shared the prize with John Goodenough and Akira Yoshino. At the University of Oxford, Whittingham completed a BA in Chemistry (1964), and MA (1967) and PhD (1968) in Solid State Chemistry. He came to the U.S. in 1968 to pursue a postgraduate fellowship at Stanford University. In…
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Presented by Prof. Daniel A. Scherson and Prof. Henry S. White from August 15-19, 2022 Event info Annual Workshop on Electrochemical Measurement The Hybrid Edition: Theory and Hands-On Experiments Principal lecturers Daniel A. Scherson Professor Case Western Reserve University Henry S. White Professor University of Utah

Professor Manthiram answered audience questions during a live Q&A session following his April 20 webinar, “Electrification and Decarbonization of Chemical Synthesis.” He kindly provided written answers to questions not covered during the broadcast (below). The webinar is available to view on the ECS YouTube channel.

 Topic Close-up #16 Symposium: G02—Atomic Layer Deposition and Etching Applications 18 Deadline for Submitting Abstracts: April 22, 2022  

Voting is open through April 29 for the ECS Industrial Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Engineering (IE&EE) Division officers. We urge all ECS IE&EE Division members to take part in this important election! ECS division officers serve as volunteers. This election, there are three candidates for the position of Secretary/Treasurer. Read the candidates’ biographical sketches and statements below. Instructions on how to vote follow the candidates’ bios and statements. The link to the electronic proxy is included.

The ECS Detroit Section invites you to join Dr. Chen Liao for her webinar on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 Time: 1900h EDT Cost: Free

Topic Close-up #5 Symposium: A02 – Research and Development of Primary and Secondary Batteries: In Honor of George Blomgren Deadline for Submitting Abstracts: April 22, 2022  

The Journal of The Electrochemical Society is publishing a focus issue in connection with the 241st ECS Meeting Nucleation and Growth symposium. This focus issue aims to capture the latest findings and insights related to phase transformation in electrochemical systems. Contributions for this cross-disciplinary pursuit are sought from researchers with diverse expertise and backgrounds reporting on the latest experimental and computational approaches to understanding nucleation and growth phenomena during electrodeposition and dissolution. Modern imaging, scattering, and spectroscopy tools along with…
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Henry B. Linford Award for Distinguished Teaching Monday 0730h | Vancouver Convention Center, Room WMR 109/110 The Role of Electrochemistry in Battery R&D by Martin Winter Martin Winter holds a professorship in Materials Science, Energy and Electrochemistry at the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU). He is the Founder and Scientific Director of the Münster Electrochemical Energy Technology (MEET) Battery Research Center at WWW, managing a team of 150 scientists, engineers, and technicians working on the…
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