In 2022, ECS divisions and sections provided $106,295 in funding to assist students, postdocs, and early career researchers participate in ECS biannual meetings. We thank the ECS divisions and sections, as well as our generous donors who supported the biannual meeting travel grant program. Congratulations to the recipients of their support.

Congratulations to the students whose superior work won them presentation prizes at the recent 242nd ECS Meeting in Atlanta! Their robust research impressed symposia judges and is sure to impress you too. Thank you to all the participating authors.

ECS San Francisco Section Distinguished Seminar Series Register for the September 22 event! “Solid Electrolyte Interphase (SEI) of lithium ion batteries: Role of additives and crossover reactions on stability and performance” Brett Lucht Professor of Chemistry University of Rhode Island  Date: Thursday, September 22, 2022 Time: 1000-1100h PST  Price: Free; the webinar is open to public. Format: Virtual via Zoom Sponsor: Toyota Research Institute of North America

Submission deadline: December 2, 2022 ECS is now accepting abstracts for the 243rd ECS Meeting with the 18th International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC-XVIII). The meeting runs from May 28-June 2, 2023, in Boston, MA, and features over 50 symposia in these areas:

Voting is now taking place for the position of ECS Sensor Division Treasurer. Biographical sketches and statements follow for the candidates nominated for the position. ECS division officers serve as volunteers. We urge all ECS Sensor Division members to take part in this important election! Voting is open from September 1 through September 29.

Voting is now taking place for the position of ECS Battery Division Treasurer. Biographical sketches and statements follow for the candidates nominated for the position. ECS division officers serve as volunteers. We urge all ECS Battery Division members to take part in this important election! Voting is open from September 1 through September 29.

Meet Professor Trisha L. Andrew at the 242nd ECS Meeting “Meet the Editors” event. Dr. Andrews is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She directs the Wearable Electronics Lab, a multi-disciplinary research team that creates electronic devices on unconventional substrates, such as textiles and living plants, using chemical vapor deposition of soft electronic materials and polymers. Dr. Andrews received her PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011, and then started…
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The Electrochemical Society hosted Dr. Judy Jeevarajan’s live webinar, “Characterization of Li-ion Battery Thermal Runaway in ESSs and EVs,” on August 3, 2022. Dr. Jeevarajan took audience questions during a live Question and Answer session at the end of the presentation. She kindly answered, in writing, questions not answered during the broadcast. Find these responses below.

Gather with your colleagues! The plenary session is a highlight of every ECS meeting. Participants from all symposia come together to celebrate some of the greatest minds in the field. ECS President Turgut Gür wraps up the first full day of the 242nd ECS Meeting, welcomes meeting attendees and introduces the highly anticipated lecturer, Nobel laureate M. Stanley Whittingham from Binghamton University. Prof. Whittingham presents “The Critical Role of Energy Storage in the Electric Economy and Overcoming Climate Change.” These Society…
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Pennington, NJ – Betar M. Gallant, Yayuan Liu, Jacob S. Spendelow, and William Tarpeh received the 2022–2023 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowships for projects in green energy technology. The fellowship program is a partnership between The Electrochemical Society and the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA), a division of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. (TEMA). Through this program, ECS and Toyota promote innovative and unconventional green energy technologies born from electrochemical research—and encourage young professionals and scholars...
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