The ECS Society Awards will be presented during this meeting at the plenary session. The Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award will be presented to Michael S Arnold, University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Edward Goodrich Acheson Award will go to Tetsuya Osaka, Waseda University. Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award Monday, October 1 | 0830-0910h Universal 20 (Expo) Overcoming the Materials Science Challenges to Nanocarbon Electronics By Michael S. Arnold   Michael S. Arnold is currently a Professor of Materials Science and...
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Take the time to honor and support your friends and colleagues. Be sure to add the division award winners’ talks to your calendar; they are scheduled in various symposia throughout the week. Sensor Division Outstanding Achievement Award Monday, October 1 | 0800-0840h Universal 17 (Expo) Electrochemical Sensors: From Beakers to the Skin and the Mouth By Joseph Wang   Joseph Wang is Distinguished Professor, SAIC Endowed Chair and Chair in the Department of Nanoengineering at University of California, San Diego....
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ECS marked the 90th anniversary of ECS providing summer fellowships in 2018. The ECS summer fellowship program is designed to assist students during the summer months, June through September, in the pursuit of work in a field of interest to ECS. 2018 Fellowship Recipients: Haegyeom Kim Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Supervisor, Professor Gerbrand Ceder Colin Garfield Fink Summer Fellowship* Jeffrey Henderson University of Western Ontario Advisors, Dr. James Noel and Dr. David Shoesmith Herbert H. Uhlig Summer Fellowship Xinyou Ke...
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37 Years with Roque Calvo ECS Executive Director Roque Calvo has served as a steward of The Electrochemical Society for over 37 years, guiding the Society through tremendous changes while remaining dedicated to the Society’s mission to advance electrochemical and solid state science and technology. Now, as Calvo comes to the end of his tenure and begins transitioning out of his role at ECS, we are looking back at some of the Society’s greatest accomplishments during his time. Calvo joined…
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Over 2,600 people from 53 countries attended the 233rd ECS Meeting in Seattle, WA, May 13-17, 2018—the largest spring meeting in the Society's history! Participants could choose from 46 symposia, with over 2,000 oral talks and nearly 600 posters, of which almost 700 were student presentations. Click here to see all of the photos from the 233rd ECS Meeting. Opening Reception A new and improved opening reception kicked off the meeting. Held in a spacious atrium in the Washington State...
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ECS is pleased to announce the winners of the Society’s 2017 young author awards: Raymond Smith and Shihyun Ahn. ECS presents two young author awards each year to recognize the best papers published by young authors in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society and the ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology during the volume year preceding the award. The 2017 young author awards will be presented at AiMES 2018 in Cancun, Mexico, September 30-October 4, 2018.

The winner of the 2018 Industrial Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Engineering Division H.H. Dow Memorial Student Achievement Award is Soo Kim! Each year, the ECS IE&EE Division recognizes and rewards promising young engineers and scientists in the field of electrochemical engineering and applied electrochemistry. The award was established in 1990 by a gift from the Dow Chemical Company Foundation and offers a framed certificate and a $1,000 prize. The nomination deadline is September 15 of each year. Soo Kim received his…
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In an effort to better recognize the innovative research gaining traction across the diverse span of ECS’s topical interest areas, the Society has instituted a new blog series, which will highlight the top five most-downloaded journal articles in each TIA during each quarter of the year. The most-downloaded Journal of The Electrochemical Society articles by TIA during the first quarter of 2018 (January through March) are listed below. Highlights are based on articles published since January 1, 2016.

M01 - Gel Symposium 2018 Keynote Speakers Prof. Bonnie Gray | Simon Fraser University, Canada “Wearable Devices and Systems on Textiles for Biomedical Monitoring and Safety” Prof. Dan Luo | Cornell University, USA “DNA-based Hydrogels”  Prof. Phillip Messersmith | University of California, Berkeley, USA “Shear-Thinning and Self-Assembling Polymer Hydrogels for Drug-Induced Tissue Regeneration”     Prof. Takashi Miyata | Kansai University, Japan “Strategical Design and Applications of Responsive Gels with Dynamic Crosslinks” Dr. Yukio Nagasaki | University of Tsukuba, Japan “Design of Silica-Containing Redox Nanoparticles for High-Performance...
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Membership continues to play a very important role in the success of The Electrochemical Society. During the month of March, ECS hosted a spring membership campaign that featured 13 stories about our members. Membership with ECS is more than the discounts. Membership is access to the latest scientific research, a commitment to the dissemination of research, and an opportunity for you to build your career with an international network of peers. Shirley Meng, secretary of the Battery Division, says “The…
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