208th ECS Meeting | Los Angeles, CA | Oct. 17, 2005 Scientific Challenges in Sustainable Energy Technology Nathan S. Lewis, the 2002 George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, delivered the plenary address on Monday morning. Prof. Lewis has been on the Caltech faculty since 1988 and is also a principal investigator at the Beckman Institute Molecular Materials Resource Center on campus. His research interests include light-induced and “dark” electron transfer reactions at semiconductor/electrolyte interfaces, photoelectrochemistry…
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209th ECS Meeting | Denver, CO | May 8, 2006 Renewable Energy: Progress and Promise Ralph Overend of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO delivered the plenary address on Monday morning. The speaker was introduced by Barry MacDougall, Vice-President of the Society and a postdoctoral colleague of Dr. Overend’s at the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada. In the 1970s, Dr. Overend was at the NRC as manager of the Bioenergy Program and advisor on biomass energy to the…
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214th ECS Meeting | Honolulu, HI | Oct. 13, 2008 New Developments in Electrochemical Nano-Technology Electrochemical nanotechnology has produced a variety of materials with the nanometer scale. These nano-scale materials have made it possible to miniaturize electric devices, and they are fascinating because of their attractive characteristics, which are remarkably different from bulk materials. Prof. Osaka and his group have been conducting their research based on the philosophy of “creating new designs for the interface between solution and electrode at…
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217th ECS Meeting | Vancouver, BC, Canada | Apr. 26, 2010 The Future of Energy Conversion: A Perspective from the Chemical Industry  The ideal energy future requires 100% sustainable sources of energy in adequate amounts to support a high standard of living for all. The key to reaching our sustainable energy goal is optimizing efficiency at every step of energy conversion and storage—whether cultivating food crops, propelling passenger vehicles, or synthesizing polymers for durable goods. Each application will require a different solution…
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221st ECS Meeting | Seattle, WA | May 7, 2012 Will It Be a Tank of Lithium to Drive Our Next Car?” Back in 1800, when Alessandro Volta, professor at the University of Pavia in Italy, unveiled his “electric pile” to Napoleon Bonaparte, he could not have imagined that his invention—mainly the fruit of a dispute with his colleague-competitor Luigi Galvani at University of Bologna—would have opened a route that, via various progressive technological evolution steps, did eventually lead to the…
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224th ECS Meeting | San Francisco, CA | Oct. 28, 2013 America’s Energy Future: Science, Engineering, and Policy Challenges In 2007 the National Research Council convened a committee to study America’s Energy Future, and the report from the committee became public in the spring of 2009. This presentation will include a summary of important events and issues that have arisen since the report was issued, including expansion of the use of natural gas in the United States, the devastating impact from…
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225th ECS Meeting |  Orlando, Florida |  May 12, 2014 Nanowires: From Nanocomputing to Nano-Bioelectronics Nanoscience offers the promise of revolutionary advances in many areas of science and technology, ranging from electronics and computing to biology and medicine, yet the realization of this promise depends critically on the rational synthesis of unique functional nanoscale structures and their organization into well-defined devices, circuits and systems. Here we highlight the power of semiconductor nanowires as a platform material for exploring new science…
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228th ECS Meeting | Phoenix, AZ | Oct. 12, 2015 Wealth, Global Warming and Geoengineering Adam Heller’s work in electrochemical engineering has touched the lives of people across the globe. As the inventor of the painless diabetes blood monitor, his developments in healthcare have had enormous societal and economic impact. Heller’s work spans a range of technologies, touching areas related to battery and energy—including solar cells, the lithium battery, and photoelectrocatalysis. Heller’s journey though the sciences took flight in 1961, when...
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For projects in green energy technology ECS, in partnership with the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA)—a Toyota Motor North America (Toyota) R&D division that explores future technology—requests proposals from young professors and scholars pursuing innovative electrochemical research in green energy technology. Population growth, increased production of vehicles, and the global development of industry and technology in the 20th century have resulted in massive consumption of fossil fuels. Today, the automotive industry faces three challenges regarding environmental and energy...
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ECS President | 2019-2020 ECS Vice President | 2016-2019 Christina Bock is Senior Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) where she has served as technical leader for NRC’s “Energy Storage for the Renewal of the Electrical Grid Program” and was directly involved in establishing and leading a NRC-industry consortium on the value chain of Lithium-ion batteries.  She still leads an R&D team on Energy Storage Materials and Formulations at the NRC. Her research at the NRC…
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