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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StorageX International Symposium An Online Series on Energy Storage Sponsored by Stanford’s StorageX Initiative Join Stanford StorageX for an interactive symposium series on the latest advances and breakthrough research in energy storage.

Marca Doeff finds opportunities in tough times Marca Doeff, Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL), is also Deputy Division Director of LBNL Energy Storage and Distributed Resources. During the shut-in, she works at her dining room table with a view of San Francisco Bay. She describes San Francisco without traffic, developing coping skills, and new research funding opportunities. A former chair of the ECS Battery Division, she is now Secretary of the ECS Board. The pause that refreshes…
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Henry B. Linford Award for Distinguished Teaching  Intricacies of High-Energy Cathodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries By Arumugam Manthiram     Arumugam Manthiram is currently the Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering and Director of the Texas Materials Institute and the Materials Science and Engineering Program at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin), US. He received his PhD in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1981. After working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, England,…
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Electronics and Photonics Division Award Let There be Light… – Research at the Intersection of Electronics and Photonics By Andrew Steckl   Andrew Steckl is Ohio Eminent Scholar, Gieringer Professor, and Distinguished University Research Professor at the University of Cincinnati, US, in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Materials Science and Engineering. Steckl obtained his BS from Princeton University, US, and his MS and PhD from University of Rochester, US. He is a Life Fellow of the…
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Ram Manthiram urges the science community to step up In our series, The ECS Community Adapts and Advances, Arumugam “Ram” Manthiram urges the science community to be proactive in confronting the pandemic and climate change challenges threatening the global community. Ram is Director of the Texas Materials Institute and the Materials Science and Engineering Program at the University of Texas Austin (UTAUS). He holds a co-appointment as the Joe C. Walter Chair in Engineering and Jack S. Josey Professor in Energy Studies. Ram’s…
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