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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Dianne Xiao Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry University of Washington Date: August 17, 2022 Time: 1000–1100h PT Price: There is no cost to register for this event, but registration is required.   The webinar is open to the public; ECS membership is not required.

The Electrochemical Society hosted Dr. Luis Fernando Arenas’ live webinar, “Flow Cells: Advanced Electrodes via 3D Printing and Tomography,” on July 20, 2022. Dr. Arenas took audience questions during a live Question and Answer session at the end of the presentation, and was kind enough to answer, in writing, questions he was not able to get to during the broadcast. Read his responses to these questions below. NOTE: Registration is required for viewing

Pennington, NJ – The Electrochemical Society (ECS) has named 15 new members to the 2022 Class of ECS Fellows. The designation “Fellow of The Electrochemical Society” was established in 1989 for advanced individual technological contributions to the fields of electrochemistry and solid state science and technology, and for service to the Society. Fellows are recognized for scientific achievements, leadership, and active participation in the affairs of ECS. Each year, their peers choose up to 15 renowned scientists and engineers for…
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Mohammadreza Nazemi, PhD Pennington, NJ – Mohammadreza Nazemi, PhD, received The Electrochemical Society’s prestigious 2022 ECS Colin Garfield Fink Fellowship to support his research project, “Electrochemical redox processes for wastewater treatment and resource recovery using single atom catalysts.” The fellowship provides research support for the months of June through August. Nazemi is currently a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University. His work focuses on developing an electrochemical system comprised of single-atom metal catalysts...
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Support your colleagues, students, and fellow scientists and engineers’ noteworthy contributions by nominating them for an ECS award! They deserve to be recognized for their hard work and accomplishments. Follow the links below for further details on these honors and awards.

Luis Fernando Arenas Humboldt Research Fellow Institute of Chemical and Electrochemical Process Engineering Research Center for Energy Storage Technologies Technische Universität Clausthal University, Germany Date: July 20, 2022 Time: 1000h ET Sponsors: Hiden Analytical, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Waters-TA Instruments

The ECS Detroit Section held its 2022 Officer Election from May 13-June 3, 2022. Thank you to all ECS members who supported their regional community by voting, and to the new officers for serving their section. The new officers’ terms of office are for two years or until their successors have been qualified. Their terms begin at 0800h ET on January 1 of the calendar year following the election. Please join us in congratulating our new ECS officers and wishing…
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