Harry Tuller is a Professor of Ceramics and Electronic Materials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Head of the Crystal Physics and Electroceramics Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Professor Tuller’s research focuses on defects, diffusion, and the electrical, electrochemical and optical properties of metal oxides with applications to sensors, fuel cells, photoelectrochemistry, thin film oxides, microphotonics, and MEMS devices. He has published over 420 articles, co-edited 15 books and was awarded 29 patents. He…
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Notable for his identification of a new cathodes, Michael Thackeray helped lead to significant advances in lithium-polymer technology. Thackeray has focused his career on unraveling structure-electrochemical relationships in solid electrodes and electrolytes for battery systems and in designing new or improved materials. He was manager of the Battery Unit at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa before moving to Argonne in 1994. He was Director of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC),…
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John Bannister Goodenough was born in 1922, served in WWII, and obtained his PhD in physics from the University of Chicago (1952). Throughout his career, Goodenough established himself as an internationally prominent solid state scientist, widely recognized for his role in the development of the rechargeable Li-ion battery. Goodenough is a Nobel laureate in chemistry. He shares the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with colleagues M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino. He joined The University of Texas at Austin in...
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Jeffrey W. Fergus is a professor of material engineering and Associate Dean for Program Assessment and Graduate Studies in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University. His current research interests are in materials for high temperature and electrochemical applications. Fergus’ work has applications in the development of chemical sensors for gases, such as carbon dioxide and water vapor; and constituents in molten metals, as in dissolved gasses and alloying elements. Additionally, Fergus has worked on materials for energy…
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Nomination Deadline: August 1, 2016 ECS is currently accepting nominations for the following award of the Dielectric Science and Technology Division: DST Thomas D. Callinan Award: established in 1967 to encourage excellence in dielectric investigations, to encourage the preparation of high-quality science and technology papers and patents, to encourage publication in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society, and to recognize outstanding contributions to the field of dielectric science and technology. The award consists of a scroll and a $1,500 prize....
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Phoenix, Arizona, October 11-15, 2015, Phoenix Convention Center and the Hyatt Regency Phoenix Meeting Program Read Program The ECS Lecture Adam Heller Wealth, Global Warming and Geoengineering Awards See award winners ECS Transactions Read ECST Call for Papers View Call for Papers Technical Program Read Technical Program Meeting Program Read Meeting Program Meeting Highlights Over 2,080 people from 46 different countries attended the 228th ECS Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, October 11-15, 2015. This was ECS’s first return visit to Phoenix...
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Chicago Illinois, May 24-28, 2015 Meeting Program Read Program The ECS Lecture John A. Turner Hydrogen from Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting – What’s it gonna’ take? Awards See award winners ECS Transactions Read ECST Technical Program Read Program Meeting Highlights Over 2,395 people attended the 227th ECS Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, May 24-28, 2015. This was ECS’s first return visit to Chicago since 2007. Participants could choose among 45 symposia and over 2,300 presentations. Plenary Session ECS President Paul Kohl opened...
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Cancun, Mexico, October 5-9, 2014, Meeting Program Read Program The ECS Lecture Víctor Gerardo Carreón Rodríguez Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in Mexico Awards See award winners ECS Transactions Read ECST Call for Papers View Call for Papers Technical Program Read Program Electrochemical Energy Summit Learn More Meeting Highlights Over 2,000 people attended the 2014 ECS and SMEQ Joint International Meeting in Cancun, Mexico. This was ECS’s first return visit to Cancun since 2006. Participants could choose among...
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Honolulu, Hawaii, October 12-17, 2008, The ECS Lecture Tetsuya Osaka New Developments in Electrochemical Nano-Technology Awards See award winners Proceedings Volumes See meeting Proceedings Volumes Technical Program ALL DIVISIONS AND GROUPS A1 – General Society Student Poster Session (D. Misra, P.S. Fedkiw and T. Watanabe) BATTERY DIVISION/ ENERGY TECHNOLOGY DIVISION B1 – Heavy Duty Batteries for Electric Vehicles and Portable Devices (A.R. Landgrebe and Z. Ogumi) B2 – Intercalation Compounds for Battery Materials (G.A. Nazri, T. Ohzuku and M. Thackeray)...
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Honalulu, Hawaii, October 3-8, 2004, Hilton Hawaiian Village The 2004 Joint International Meeting combines the 206th Meeting of The Electrochemical Society (ECS) and the 2004 Fall Meeting of The Electrochemical Society of Japan (ECSJ) and is technically cosponsored by The Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP). This major international conference offers a unique blend of electrochemical and solid-state science and technology. The 2004 Joint International Meeting continues this tradition of the 1987, 1993 and 1999 Hawaii Meetings and serves as...
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