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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Opportunity for ECS Members ECS is teaming up with Amazon to bring ECS members the Amazon Catalyst at ECS. ECS members have an opportunity to interact with one of the world’s largest companies and potentially be awarded a grant to tackle a number of different challenges. Amazon Catalyst is committing up to $100,000 to help fund the selected ideas Through the catalyst program ECS and Amazon are looking for solutions that make life easier, healthier, more sustainable, more enjoyable, or more...
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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 ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology 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.

Howard Katz, Professor Whiting School of Engineering, John Hopkins Howard Katz is a synthetic/physical organic chemist with research interests in organic, hybrid, and interfacial electronics.  He has published over 280 papers and obtained over 50 patents, with an H-index above 70.  He was one of the early pioneers in organic electronics, including being first to show the high mobility-single crystal relationship in pentacene and the electron transporting capability of naphthalenetetracarboxylic diimides.  He synthesized many other prototypical subunits used in conjugated...
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Sustainability is at the core of the research that is published in the ECS Digital Library. Electrochemists and solid state scientists and engineers are our best hope of developing the technologies that will make a difference. They are the masterminds behind the lithium batteries that run all of our mobile devices, they developed the first fuel cells and photovoltaics, and they are on the cutting edge of current research in generating and storing energy from renewable sources like solar, biofuels,…
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ECS Transactions (ECST) is the official meeting proceedings of The Electrochemical Society. This publication features full-text content of proceedings from ECS meetings and ECS-sponsored meetings. For a full listing of available volumes and issues, or to purchase individual articles, please visit the ECS Transactions page of the ECS Digital Library. Full issues may be purchased through the ECS Online Store. New for 2018 - All authors are welcome to submit a full-text preprint, slides, or other presentation-related materials to the new preprint server, ECSarXiv....
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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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The deadline for submission to the Journal of The Electrochemical Society Focus Issue on The Brain and Electrochemistry has been extended to April 30, 2018. The focus issue will provide a forum for the discussion of research and developments on how the central and peripheral nervous systems can be viewed and studied in terms of electrical circuits and electrochemical sensors, reactions, and methods. The issue is dedicated to R. Mark Wightman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Christian Amatore (Ecole…
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Thank you to the 233rd ECS Meeting Exhibitors! The exhibitors in Seattle, WA will showcase some of the greatest innovations in the industry including cutting-edge instruments, materials, systems, publications, and software, as well as other products and services. Don’t miss the opportunity to gain face to face time with industry experts. Location The Exhibit Hall will be located in Ballroom 6ABC in the Washington State Convention Center. Exhibit Hours Monday, May 14, 2018 1200-1700h Exhibitor Move-In 1400-1700h Poster Move-In 1800-2000h...
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