ECS is pleased to announce the winners of the PRiME 2020 symposia-funded best poster and presentation awards! Awards of this type are presented at every ECS meeting thanks to the generous funding of individual symposium sponsors. Please take a moment to celebrate the excellent work of the authors listed below. If you missed the opportunity to view these presentations, there is still time! All presentations are accessible until November 9, 2020! Pre-registration is required.

The ECS Board of Directors chartered a new ECS section on October 16, 2020. With the addition of the ECS Pacific Northwest Section, the Society now hosts over 24 region-specific sections providing opportunities for regional scientists and engineers to connect with researchers and participate in various events. Jie Xiao, ECS Fellow and Battery Division Secretary, took the lead in chartering the section and now serves as its chair. The ECS Pacific Northwest Section seeks to connect all interested parties from…
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A highlight of The Electrochemical Society’s record-breaking PRiME 2020 digital meeting was the live session honoring M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino, long term ECS members and 2019 Nobel Chemistry Laureates. That same day—October 7, 2020—the Royal Swedish Academy of Science announced that Emmanuelle Charpentier (Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin, Germany) and Jennifer A. Doudna (University of California, Berkeley, US) received the 2020 Nobel Chemistry Prize “for the development of a method for genome editing.”

The PRiME Lecture will take place as an online event on Monday, October 5, 2020, starting at 2000h EDT / Tuesday, October 6, 2020, at 0900h JST & KST. Visit here to register for this event. Dr. Nam-Gyu Park, Professor and SKKU-Fellow at the School of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, will lead the PRiME 2020 plenary this year as the featured lecturer, presenting his talk, “Perovskite Solar Cells: Past 10 Years and Next 10 Years.” What’s it all about?…
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All event days and times are listed in both ET and JST/KST. Dates and time subject to change. For a full listing of events: click here Registration For more registration information, visit the PRiME 2020 registration information page.   PRiME 2020 Opening Ceremony Sunday, October 4, 2020, 2000-2030h EDT Monday, October 5, 2020, 0900-0930h JST & KST Join us as we come together to kick off PRiME 2020! Introductory remarks are given by the ECS, ECSJ, and KECS Presidents, who welcome…
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PRiME 2020 is the joint international meeting of: 2020 Fall Meeting of The Electrochemical Society of Japan (ECSJ) 2020 Fall Meeting of The Korean Electrochemical Society (KECS) 238th Meeting of The Electrochemical Society (ECS)

PRiME 2020 Organizing Committee ECS Co-Chair: Stefan De Gendt ECSJ Co-Chair: Yasushi Katayama KECS Co-Chair: Won Il Cho ECS: Christina Bock ECSJ: Kaoru Dokko ECS: Andrew Hoff KECS: Jae-Joon Lee ECS: Boryann Liaw KECS: Jong Hyeok Park ECSJ: Shoso Shingubara ECSJ: Wataru Sugimoto KECS: Won-Sub Yoon PRiME 2020 Partners The Electrochemical Society (ECS) ECS Officers Stefan De Gendt, President Eric Wachsman, Sr. Vice President Turgut Gür, 2nd Vice President Gerardine Botte, 3rd Vice President Marca Doeff, Secretary Gessie Brisard, Treasurer…
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Congratulations to Keegan Adair, winner of the 2020 ECS Canada Section Student Award. The Canada Section Student Award is one of four awards in the ECS Canada Section recognition program. Established in 1987, the award recognizes promising young engineers and scientists in the field of electrochemical power sources. It is intended to encourage the recipients to initiate or continue careers in the field. The recipient is a student pursuing a PhD at a Canadian university in any area of science or engineering…
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On August 12, 2020, Venkat Viswanathan, Faculty Fellow at the Wilson E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, presented his talk on “Autonomous Discovery of Battery Electrolytes with Robotic Experimentation and Machine Learning” via a live webinar presentation. Dr. Viswanathan’s talk covered the importance of robotic experimentation, machine learning guided design of experiments, and the frontier of remote experimentation. View Dr. Viswanathan’s webinar presentation, here. * Note: You must fill out the registration form…
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Chris Beasley and Gamry step up to today’s challenges Chris Beasley is upbeat about the future while recognizing the challenges of the present. He is Marketing Manager in Electrochemistry at Gamry Instruments where he has worked for 10 years. Gamry Instruments designs and builds precision electrochemical instrumentation and accessories. Chris received his BS magna cum laude in Chemistry from Kutztown University in 2000 and completed his PhD in Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010.  Gamry…
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