Every year, we celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8 as a way to commemorate the movement for women’s rights. This global holiday honors the social, economic, cultural, political – and in our case – scientific achievements of women. Additionally, International Women’s Day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Currently, women remain underrepresented in the STEM workforce, although to a lesser degree than the past. According to the National Science Foundation, the greatest gender disparities still…
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Priceless collaborations Shirley Meng joined ECS as a graduate student in 2007. Since becoming involved with the Society and interacting with the ECS Battery Division, Meng has felt a sense of mentorship and comradery that has inspired her to keep coming back to ECS and its membership base. “ECS is really my professional home,” Meng said. “I’ve been able to interact with a lot of scientists and researchers and form collaborations, some of them lasting more than a decade. Those...
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The meaning of ECS as told by its members Society members say that ECS is their professional home. It’s where they meet new colleagues and discover valuable peer collaborations. ECS connects you to a global network of scientists and engineers in academia, industry, and government—leaders in the fields of electrochemistry and solid state science and technology. Read members’ stories: ECS Community Adapts and Advances Through COVID-19 (Elizabeth Biddinger, Venkat Viswanathan, Netzahualcó yotl [Netz] Arroyo-Currá s, Marion Jones, Joe Stetter, Jerry...
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By: Bob Marcotte, University of Rochester  In order to power entire communities with clean energy, such as solar and wind power, a reliable backup storage system is needed to provide energy when the sun isn’t shining and the wind doesn’t blow. One possibility is to use any excess solar- and wind-based energy to charge solutions of chemicals that can subsequently be stored for use when sunshine and wind are scarce. At that time, the chemical solutions of opposite charge can…
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A collaborative team of researchers from Shinshu University in Japan have found a new way to curb some of the potential dangers posed by lithium ion batteries. The team was led by Susumu Arai, a professor of the department of materials chemistry and head of Division for Application of Carbon Materials at the Institute of Carbon Science and Technology at Shinshu University. These batteries, typically used in electric vehicles and smart grids, could help society realize a low-carbon future, according…
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ECS is pleased to announce that, thanks to a $20,000 donation, the 2018 volume of the Journal of The Electrochemical Society has been named in honor of ECS fellow Chung Chiun Liu. The Chung Chiun Liu Leadership Collection will contain all of the content published in JES volume 165. Liu is the Wallace R. Persons Professor of Sensor Technology & Control at Case Western Reserve University. He has been an ECS member for over 50 years. During this time, he has…
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Engineers have, for the first time, come up with a way to safely charge a smartphone wirelessly using a laser. A narrow, invisible beam from a laser emitter can deliver charge to a smartphone sitting across a room—and potentially charge the phone’s battery as quickly as a standard USB cable. To accomplish this, the researchers mounted a thin power cell to the back of a smartphone, which charges the smartphone using power from the laser.

Dates and time subject to change. For a full listing of both social and technical events: Click Here Abbreviation Key WSCC = Washington State Convention Center SS = Seattle Sheraton Registration 6th Floor Lobby (WSCC) Sunday.................................................................... Monday................................................................... Tuesday................................................................... Wednesday.............................................................. Thursday................................................................. Note: Registration will not be open on Saturday. . . 0700-1900h 0700-1900h 0700-1730h 0700-1600h 0700-1200h Opening Reception (new & improved) Sunday 1900-2100h 4th Floor Atrium Lobby (WSCC) Come get a taste for Seattle and help kick-off an exciting week! All...
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Deadline for Submitting Abstracts March 16, 2018 Submit today! Topic Close-up #3 Symposium A02: Challenges in Novel Electrolytes, Organic Materials, and Innovative Chemistries for Batteries – in Honor of Michel Armand Symposium Focus: On polymer electrolytes, ionic liquid electrolytes, new electrolyte salts, conductive layer-coated electrode materials, electrode materials for organic batteries, metal/electrolyte interfaces, fuel cells made with previous materials and/or electrolytes, anode metal based rechargeable batteries, and any innovative cell design and chemistry. Both theoretical and experimental papers are accepted,…
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A small metallic tab that, when attached to the body, is capable of generating electricity from bending a finger and other simple movements could one day power our electronic devices. “No one likes being tethered to a power outlet or lugging around a portable charger. The human body is an abundant source of energy. We thought: ‘Why not harness it to produce our own power?’” says Qiaoqiang Gan, associate professor of electrical engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied…
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