You are cordially invited to the January meeting of the ECS Detroit Section on Thursday, January 23! The meeting will feature Jeff Yambrick, from SVOLT Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 蜂巢能源), who will introduce SVOLT Energy, a new and fast-growing player in battery manufacturing space. The meeting will take place at the Lawrence Technological University (21000 West Ten Mile Road, Southfield, MI 48075) Building #5 (Taubman Welcome Center) 4th floor, Room 406.

Proceedings from PRiME 2020 are now available to browse and read in the ECS Digital Library on IOPscience and ECSarXiv, and purchase from the ECS Online Store. Published ECST Proceedings Issues Published ECSarXiv Proceedings Articles Purchasing Information FAQs PRiME 2020 – ECS Transactions Volume 98, Issues 1-13 ECS Transactions (ECST) is the official conference proceedings publication of The Electrochemical Society. Featuring full-text content of proceedings from ECS meetings and ECS-sponsored meetings, ECST is a high-quality venue for authors and an excellent...
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The following are biographical sketches and candidacy statements of the nominated candidates for the annual election of ECS officers. Candidate for President | Candidates for Vice President | Candidates for Secretary Candidate for President Stefan De Gendt is a scientific director at IMEC, Belgium (research center in the nano-electronics domain) responsible for research on chemistry and physics of exploratory materials. He obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Antwerp, Belgium. In 1996, he joined IMEC as a researcher in…
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The Electrochemical Society honors 2019 Nobel Chemistry Prize laureates, John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino, by the launch of a new collection highlighting their scientific contributions published by ECS. In addition, ECS recognizes their contributions in the winter 2019 issue of Interface, now available online. Goodenough, Whittingham, and Yoshino have been deeply involved with The Electrochemical Society—as members, authors, editors, fellows, meeting participants and organizers, awardees, and more. Their publications with ECS, to varying degrees, trace the…
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ECS leadership collections are journal volumes named through fundraising gifts. They commemorate the contributions and legacies of distinguished leaders throughout the Society’s history. ECS is grateful for the generosity of the donors who make these collections possible. 2018 – The Chung Chiun Liu Collection The content of the 2018 volume of JES is dedicated to Chung Chiun Liu, the Wallace R. Persons Professor of Sensor Technology & Control at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Liu has been an ECS member…
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Call for Papers ECS Journal of The Electrochemical Society  Focus Issue on Challenges in Novel Electrolytes, Organic Materials, and Innovative Chemistries for Batteries in Honor of Michel Armand This focus issue of the Journal of The Electrochemical Society is devoted to the novel electrolytes, organic materials, and innovative chemistries for batteries. This issue is inspired by the work of Michel Armand, Emeritus Researcher at French CNRS, and presently working at CIC-Energigune in Spain and at Deakin University in Australia. Michel…
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John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino, co-winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, delivered their Nobel Lectures at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 8. The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognized the three scientists’ seminal contributions in the development of the Lithium-ion battery. Goodenough, Whittingham, and Yoshino are longtime members of The Electrochemical Society (ECS); Goodenough and Whittingham are ECS Fellows. The Nobel Foundation statutes require the Laureates to give lectures on a subject connected with the work…
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As John B. Goodenough looked on, his Nobel Lecture was delivered by Arumugam Manthiram at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University, on December 8, 2019. Both Goodenough and Manthiram are fellows of The Electrochemical Society (ECS). Nobel Laureates are required to give a lecture on a subject connected with the work for which they receive the award. Goodenough videotaped his lecture, “Designing Lithium-ion Battery Cathodes,” before December 8, then invited Manthiram to present it in Stockholm. Manthiram added explanations and comments…
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Join ECS San Francisco Section on December 12 for a presentation by Yijin Liu: An Integrated Multi-modal X-ray Microscopy for Energy Material Science Yijin Liu Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Light Source SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Menlo Park, CA When: Thursday, December 12, 2019 Time: 1700h Where: Sakura Bistro 388 9th Street, Oakland, CA 94607 Free participation; $35 flat fee for dinner  RSVP to sfsectionecs@gmail.com

Proposal Submission Deadline: January 31, 2020 ECS, in partnership with the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRI-NA), a division of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. (TEMA), requests proposals from young professors and scholars pursuing innovative electrochemical research in green energy technology for the ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship for Projects in Green Energy Technology. Today’s automotive industry faces three environmental and energy issue challenges: finding a viable alternative energy source as a replacement for oil; reducing…
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