PRiME 2020 is the joint international meeting of: 2020 Fall Meeting of The Electrochemical Society of Japan (ECSJ) 2020 Fall Meeting of The Korean Electrochemical Society (KECS) 238th Meeting of The Electrochemical Society (ECS)

Volume one of this focus issue is a collection of papers accepted to the International Meeting on Chemical Sensors (IMCS) which has been postponed to 2021. The deadline to submit papers for volume one has been extended to September 18, 2020. Volume one of this focus issue is accepting papers covering topics related to the planned symposia from IMCS, which includes:

Mark Orazem on a Sabbatical that Doesn’t go According to Plan In our series, The ECS Community Adapts and Advances, Mark Orazem recounts how he made good use of a sabbatical year that didn’t turn out to be anything like he expected. Currently Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida (UF), he was officially on leave for the 2019-2020 academic year. He is returning to a very different environment than he left a year ago.

The ECS Interface summer issue is now available to read online. Alice Suroviec was guest editor of the magazine which focuses on the Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry Division. “As a member of the Society, I always look forward to the quarterly arrival of Interface through postal mail. However, due to the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, we made the decision to publish the summer 2020 issue in a digital format only. I’m thrilled to give you a first glimpse…
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Pennington, NJ – Prof. Dr. Shoji Hall, Prof. Dr. Piran Ravichandran Kidambi, and Dr. Haegyeom Kim have been awarded the 2020-2021 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowships. This is the sixth year that the fellowships—a partnership between The Electrochemical Society and Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA), a division of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.—have been awarded. Through this program, ECS and Toyota promote innovative and unconventional technologies borne from electrochemical research. The fellowship encourages young professors...
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Colm O’Dwyer on doing, teaching, and sharing science in 2020 In our series, The ECS Community Adapts and Advances, University College Cork (UCC) Professor of Chemistry Colm O’Dwyer talks about how he, his students, and colleagues are managing research and coursework since Ireland shut down on March 11, 2020. Colm also directs the UCC Applied Nanoscience Group, focused on 3D battery printing, developing new sustainable battery materials, and real-time performance assessments using optics and photonics. Colm volunteers on the ECS Board of…
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Attendee information Access to all technical presentations is freely available to the entire global community, greatly expanding the potential audience who can see, hear, and experience the meeting’s outstanding content. Pre-registration is required to participate. There is no cost to participate! Register as an attendee   Presenter Information  To help support free, global access, all presenters are required to pay a modest registration fee, greatly reduced from the onsite registration rates that presenters were required to pay. Register and upload...
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Attendee information Access to all technical presentations is freely available to the entire global community, greatly expanding the potential audience who can see, hear, and experience the meeting’s outstanding content. Attendee registration is free! Pre-registration is required to participate. Register as an attendee   Presenter Information  To help support free, global access, all presenters are required to pay a modest registration fee, greatly reduced from the onsite registration rates that presenters would have been required to pay. Register and upload my presentation...
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Chockkalingam Karuppaiah Biography Chockkalingam (Chock) Karuppaiah received his Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical and Electrochemical Engineering from the Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), India (1993), and PhD in Electrochemistry and Fuel Cells from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY (1997). Chock’s professional experience includes being vice president of fuel cell stack engineering at Bloom Energy, founder at EC Labs, research professor at Case Western Reserve University, manager of fundamentals team at Plug Power, and graduate research assistant at Los Alamos National...
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Call for Papers Accepting Submissions: May 4, 2020 | Submission Deadline EXTENDED: August 12, 2020 September 18, 2020 (At the time of submission, indicate that the paper is intended for the IMCS 2020 focus issue.) Guest Editors Peter Hesketh, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S. | peter.hesketh@me.gatech.edu Steve Semancik, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. | stephen.semancik@nist.gov Udo Weimar, University of Tübingen, Germany | upw@ipc.uni-tuebingen.de Yasuhiro Shimizu, Nagasaki University, Japan | shimizu@nagasaki-u.ac.jp Joseph Stetter, KWJ Engineering, U.S. | jrstetter@gmail.com Gary Hunter, NASA Glenn,…
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