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Iam writing this while on a flight home from Albuquerque (known as “America’s Convection Oven”). My visit to Sandia National Laboratories was fantastic; the tour of their corrosion laboratories, technical discussions about joint work, and talks by their summer interns made the time fly. Speaking of flying, it seems that operationally, the airline industry has, for the most part, gotten its groove back. Sure, there still are nightmares (looking at you, Southwest), but it’s not as if baggage snafus, cancellations, and the like were unheard of before the pandemic. I certainly have had a few airline adventures that were nightmarish, but to be honest, I am still surprised when flights go well. I am repeatedly impressed by the incredible logistics ballet (mostly well outside the view of the traveling public) that has become so efficient that it is easy to forget all the things that have to go right to keep the system running. I feel the same way about the human body and its ability to function in a damage tolerant mode.
One aspect of flying that has not recovered is passenger decorum. The stories of disruptive passengers have become sufficiently common that only the most egregious float to the top of the septic tank. Fist fights with other passengers, assaults on flight attendants, refusals to follow the most simple of directions seem to be a daily appearance on (fill in your favorite social media app). What is wrong with these people? We all understand frustration, having to deal with annoying people, and just being in a grumpy mood for no reason. Ironically, the guy in front of me just slammed his seat back. The vast majority of flight attendants have nearinfinite patience, though I’ve had my share who were, to put it mildly, not service-oriented. The ones who have had to put up with the tomfoolery recently without becoming raging maniacs are clearly headed for sainthood. In the words of the great philosopher and virtual cult leader, Taylor Swift, unruly passengers “just need to calm down.”
The overall response to the jerks, though, leaves something to be desired. Although individual airlines can bar passengers who violate what should be commonly accepted standards, in the US at least, that passenger cannot be banned from all air travel. Huh? I doubt the behavior is driven by the differences in snacks on the different airlines. If someone is a jerk on one airline, I suspect it is a pretty good predictor of future behavior; past is prologue. Nofly lists for unruly passengers would cull the herd a bit, but the problem is deeper. Certainly, political polarization is deep and widespread, but it is hardly the first time in the history of world that has happened. But social norms have plunged to such depths that they barely exist. The lack of shame some feel for actions that previously would have caused the offender palpable damage in their daily life represents the rot at the core. A great deal of bad behavior has been normalized via social media. Previously, when someone acted the fool, there was a feeling that they were in a very small minority, and they received little positive feedback. Now, no matter how terrible the behavior, they can find a community of likeminded, albeit generally anonymous, individuals who cheer them on. In those dark corners of the internet, there is no one reminding them of the social contract we all sign, whether we know it or not. It would be tempting to ask Taylor Swift to sic her Swifties on these people, but the US Constitution forbids cruel and unusual punishment. I shudder to think what they would do (including my wife and daughter).
I may believe in the inherent goodness of people more than is warranted, but I hold out hope. I see more people doing the little things that are the foundation of goodness. Kindnesses can be as simple as holding doors and stepping aside for others, paying for the next person in line at the coffee shop, lending a hand when someone is struggling to move something. All of these random acts of kindness are most impactful when they are done without being asked, and they add up. They brighten the day for people on both sides of the encounter. So, let’s show the world that all electrochemists and solid-state scientists, besides being good-looking, smart, and incredibly interesting, are very, very kind.
Until next time, be safe and happy.
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Vol. 32, No. 3 Fall 2023
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Special Issue of Interface on Commercialization of Electrochemistry and Material Science Technologies
by E. Jennings TaylorIs Commercialization of Intellectual Property in an Academic Environment Feasible?
by Bill Leddy and Johna LeddyIron Flow Battery with Slurry Electrode for Large Scale Energy Storage: Scale-Up, Intellectual Property, and Commercialization Challenges
by Robert F. Savinell and Jesse S. WainrightThe Path from Scientific Discovery to Electrochemical Product Realization
by Robert D. Hilty and Tom ClayTransitioning Electrochemical Technologies into Agriculture via the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center Model
by Gerardine G. Botte
3 From the Editor: Fly the Friendly(?) Skies
7 Pennington Corner: On the Road Again
10 243rd ECS Meeting Highlights
15 Society News
36 Websites of Note
40 ECS Mourns the Passing of Beloved Member John B. Goodenough
42 People News
46 E-Chem Education
51 Tech Highlights
74 Section News
77 Awards Program
92 New Members
97 Student News
109 Call for Papers
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This year I’m saying “yes” as much as I can, especially when it comes to travelling to meet, visit, reconnect, and reengage face-toface with members of the global ECS community. What a thrill to be back on the road, meeting with old friends and colleagues, making new connections, and sharing the ECS mission in a far more personal, direct way than was possible these past several years. It has been amazing going out into the world, visiting places I haven’t seen in a long time—or ever before.
One reason for my travels has been helping initiate new ECS student chapters. Nothing is more critical to the Society’s long-term success than ensuring that we support and develop our field’s future leaders. The ECS Student Chapter program is the perfect vehicle for this. The program provides free ECS Student Membership to all student chapter members, as well as making up to $1,000 available to fund chapter events and activities. Founding a chapter is neither complicated nor arduous. Guidelines and information are in the Student Center on the ECS website. The two main prerequisites for starting an ECS chapter are
1) identifying at least six students willing to be part of the chapter (and join ECS); and
2) identifying a faculty member who agrees to serve as chapter mentor. I stress again, no funds are needed to start a chapter because ECS provides all chapter-affiliated students with complimentary ECS Student Membership. I encourage anyone interested in learning more about starting an ECS chapter to contact me
Through this effort, we build on the work of our past presidents, Yue Kuo, who helped initiate many chapters around the globe, and Turgut Gür, whom I had the great pleasure of accompanying on a multiple-week tour of Asia with four stops in Japan, two in Taiwan, and several in Korea. The idea for the Asia tour was born after Turgut delivered a keynote address at last summer’s International Conference on Flow Batteries in Thailand. Following the conference, Turgut toured Chulalongkorn University and helped launch their chapter. This underscored how critical it is that, with the pandemic behind us, we invest time and resources in engaging
with the global ECS community. With PRiME just a year or so away, this was the perfect time to visit our PRiME partners, The Electrochemical Society of Japan (ECSJ) and The Korean Electrochemical Society (KECS).
Fortunately, we were able to schedule our trip to bookend the annual ECSJ and KECS spring meetings. Turgut was honored to address both societies’ general assemblies. The palpable excitement and enthusiasm at these meetings bode very well for next October’s PRiME meeting in Hawaii. Between the two meetings, we had whirlwind visits with our colleagues in industry and academia from across disciplines in our technical domains in Kyoto and Nagoya, Japan; Hsinchu, Taiwan; and Seoul and Jeju Island, Korea. At each destination, we met with existing ECS chapters or launched the process to start new ones. Although the specifics of each meeting were unique, a consistent concern was the dire need to leverage technologies that ECS represents to address today’s global grand challenges, such as developing safe, renewable energy sources and combating climate change.
We left Asia exhausted and inspired, confident that the global ECS community not only endured the pandemic but emerged stronger and more resolved to advance the Society’s mission for the betterment of all humanity. As I write this, in the midst of what may be the hottest month ever recorded, it is difficult to imagine a more pressing, urgent mission than that of ECS.
I look forward to seeing you in Sweden and continuing this conversation!
Christopher J. Jannuzzi ECS Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7293-7404
“Nothing is more critical to the Society’s long-term success than ensuring that we support and develop our field’s future leaders. The ECS Student Chapter program is the perfect vehicle for this. ”
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From May 28 to June 2, 2023, the 243rd ECS Meeting with the 18th International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC-XVIII) co-located for the first time since 2011—convened in Boston, MA, with 2,505 registrants for the 243rd ECS Meeting and 358 registrants for SOFC-XVIII, representing 48 countries.
The meeting encompassed 46 symposia with 418 sessions, including 564 invited talks and 38 ECS award and keynote talks. A total of 2,746 abstracts were accepted with 2,225 oral talks, 468 posters, and 53 digital presentations. Of these, students presented 1,191 abstracts, with 884 oral talks and 287 posters. There were also 20 digital student presentations. Of the total number of presentations, SOFC-XVIII encompassed 388 abstracts, 316 oral talks, 62 posters, and 10 digital presentations.
(Recordings of the ECS Awards and Recognition Ceremony and Plenary Presentation are available on the the ECS YouTube Channel.)
More than 400 ECS members came together for the third Society Members Reception. The sold-out event preceded Sunday evening’s Opening Ceremony. Colleagues and new peers networked while enjoying a raffle, food, and open bar. These ECS members received prize giveaways as part of attending the event:
• Jan Macak, Univerzita Pardubice: 5-night Hotel Stay (May 25–30, 2024) for the 245th ECS Meeting in San Francisco
• Chuloong (Christoph) Kim, Colorado School of
Mines: $250 Amazon Gift Card
• Joshua Coduto, University of Iowa: $250 Amazon Gift Card
• Frédéric Hasché, Technische Universität
Braunschweig: 244th ECS Meeting Registration
• Verena Perner, MEET Battery Research Centre: ECS
Lifetime Membership
Special thanks to TA Instruments – Waters, generous sponsor of the ECS Members Reception.
The successful ECS Members Reception is scheduled again for the 244th ECS Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden.
He also said that these gigaton terawatt-scale challenges also provide opportunities to advance new technologies to help us move into a sustainable future—and how confident he is that the Society’s members will collectively and with international collaboration address these most pressing challenges. Turgut described his recent visit to several Asian countries with Chris Jannuzzi to further cooperation and collaboration.
Turgut Gür then opened the Awards and Recognition Ceremony celebrating the achievements of today’s greatest researchers in electrochemistry and solid state science.
ECS members enjoy the sold-out ECS Members Reception, networking amidst raffle drawings, delicious food, and an open bar. All photos: Robb Cohen Photography & Video
Christopher J. Jannuzzi, ECS CEO and Executive Director, delivered the meeting’s opening remarks. He welcomed event participants in Boston and those participating via video stream. Chris gave an overview of the week ahead and thanked general meeting sponsors, symposia sponsors, and exhibitors; meeting attendees; digital participants; volunteers; and staff. Chris noted the critical support provided by ECS divisions and sections to students and early career attendees through their travel funding programs.
ECS President Turgut Gür took the floor, welcoming attendees and digital participants to the third in-person meeting since the pandemic, and thanking meeting supporters, attendees, and staff. Stating global challenges in energy supply and climate change which are top of the list of threats to humanity, he encouraged everyone to read the Society’s Statement on Climate Change on the ECS website. Turgut explained how ongoing geopolitical unrest is underscoring the vulnerability of energy security and the impact on global emissions.
Turgut presented the 2023 Leadership Circle Award to the Yeager Center for Electrochemical Sciences at Case Western Reserve University for their 25 years of institutional membership. The award was accepted by Dan Scherson, Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Ernest B. Yeager Center for Electrochemical Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. General Motors Holdings LLC was honored for their 70 years of institutional membership. Taylor Garrick, VDDV Technical Specialist - Battery Cell Electrochemistry of General Motors, received the award on GM’s behalf.
Turgut introduced incoming ECS President, Gerardine (Gerri) Botte, who recognized the following past ECS division chairs:
• Graham Cheek, Organic and Biological Electrochemistry Division Past Chair (2017–2019)
• Peter Mascher, Dielectric Science and Technology Division Past Chair (2020–2022)
• Hiroshi Imahori, Nanocarbons Division Past Chair (2020–2022)
• Y. Shirley Meng, Battery Division Past Chair (2020–2022)
• Jessica Koehne, Sensor Division Past Chair (2020–2022)
Gerri then asked the audience to share a moment of silence to show their love and respect for the recently deceased Past Chair of the Energy Technology Division and co-organizer of the A01 symposium, Sri Narayan.
Turgut returned to the podium to present the 2023 ECS Society Award winners. Also honored was a prior ECS award winner who,
due to the pandemic, had not yet publicly received his award.
The 2021 ECS Carl Wagner Memorial Award was presented to Yushan Yan of the University of Delaware for pioneering and leadership in the field of alkaline membrane fuel cells and for being an outstanding educator and mentor in the field of electrochemical science and engineering. (Yan gave his award talk, “Towards Platinumfree Fuel Cells for Affordable Zeroemission Vehicles,” at the 240th ECS Meeting). The award was established in 1980 to recognize mid-career achievement, excellence in research areas of interest of the Society, and significant contributions in the teaching or guidance of students or colleagues in education, industry, or government. This award commemorates Carl Wagner, a dedicated teacher who made vital technical contributions in all areas of the Society’s interest.
The 2023 ECS Allen J. Bard Award in Electrochemical Science was presented to Joseph Hupp, Northwestern University. The award was established in 2013 to recognize distinguished contributions to electrochemical science. Hupp’s award address, “Toward Electrochemical Energy Conversion Via Metal-Organic Framework Materials,” touched on catalytic electrochemical and photochemical energy conversion as enabled by metal-organic framework (MOF) materials. The presentation focused on case studies that illustrated how nominally insulating MOF films can be persuaded to transport charge, deliver photo-generated molecular excitons, and catalytically drive energy-relevant, multielectron chemical transformations.
The ECS Gordon E. Moore Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Science & Technology was presented to Fred Roozeboom, Universiteit Twente. The award was established in 1971 as the Solid State Science and Technology Award for distinguished contributions to the field of solid state science and technology. It was renamed in Moore’s honor in 2005. Sadly, Moore passed in March of this year at the age of 94.
Roozeboom’s award address, “Moore’s Law Sustained by NonLithographic Technologies,” presented a kaleidoscopic view of his activities in rapid thermal processing, RIE etching for TSVs, RF-SIP integration of passives, and atomic layer processing (deposition, etch, and cleaning). In sub-10 nm scaling and fabrication of 3D architectures, especially, the techniques of ALD and ALE have manifested to cost-effectively bridge the record incubation time needed to bring EUV technology from prototype to commercial use. More importantly, these unique techniques can be used to create advanced devices in dedicated isotropic (thermal and radical-enhanced) and anisotropic (directional and ion-enhanced) processing modes. Here, energetic species (radicals and/or ions in a plasma) are used in one or two steps, with the ions yielding anisotropic profiles (used in FinFET logic and 3D NAND memory), and neutrals and radicals yielding isotropic profiles used to deposit or etch the features in horizontal nanowires, nanosheets, and
“forksheets” in GAA-FETs.
Arumugam Manthiram, University of Texas at Austin, received the inaugural John B. Goodenough Award of The Electrochemical Society. The award was established in 2022 in honor of Nobel laureate and longtime ECS member John Goodenough to recognize distinguished contributions to the fundamental and technological aspects of electrochemical materials science and engineering. The ECS community mourned Goodenough’s passing on June 25, 2023.
Manthiram’s award address, “Oxide Revolution in Energy Storage,” focused on the elimination of the most expensive material, cobalt, from layered oxide cathodes, then reducing the nickel content, and finally replacing lithium with sodium. The presentation discussed overcoming the challenges of cathodes with high nickel content—cycle, thermal, and air instabilities along with severe scaleup challenges—with controlled compositional and synthesis designs along with a profound understanding of the intricacies involved with the aid of advanced characterization methodologies. Manthiram described eliminating both cobalt and lithium while greatly reducing the nickel content of sodium batteries based on layered oxide cathodes. He also presented tailored electrolyte designs that provide long-life sodium cells with suppressed dendrites and enhanced safety.
Turgut introduced and provided a brief biography of Linda L. Horton who presented the 243rd ECS Meeting Plenary Lecture, a highlight of all ECS meetings.
Dr. Horton, Associate Director of Science for Basic Energy Sciences (BES) in the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (SC), delivered the 243rd ECS Meeting Lecture. In “Sustainable Clean Energy – Foundational Research Challenges and Opportunities,” she discussed BES, the nation’s leading supporter of fundamental research in materials sciences, chemistry, geosciences, and aspects of biosciences, with an annual budget of more than $2.5 billion. She also highlighted their work as a major advocate for scientific user facilities, which benefit more than 16,000 users annually. Their essential “Basic Research Needs” reports serve as a foundation for numerous transformative initiatives, including Energy Frontier Research Centers, Energy Innovation Hubs for Batteries and Energy Storage, Solar Fuels, and DOE’s Energy Earthshots, which aim to shape the future of energy and national priorities. (continued on next page)
At the end of her presentation, Horton entertained questions from the audience with Turgut serving as moderator. Turgut then encouraged attendees to visit the Exhibit Hall and participate in the 244th ECS Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden; submit abstracts for the 245th ECS Meeting in San Francisco, CA; and submit abstracts for PRiME 2024 starting in November 2023.
During the Annual Society Business Meeting and Recognition Ceremony, ECS leadership reported
• Electronics and Photonics Division Award: Jean-Michel Hartmann, CEA-Leti (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives)
• Energy Technology Division Research Award: Adam Z. Weber, Berkeley National Laboratory
• Energy Technology Division Graduate Student Award
Sponsored by BioLogic: Yirui Zhang, Stanford University
• Energy Technology Division Supramaniam Srinivasan Young
Investigator Award: Kelsey Stoerzinger, Oregon State University
• High-Temperature Energy, Materials, & Processes Division
Subhash Singhal Award: Tatsuya Kawada, Tohoku University
• Industrial Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Engineering
Division H. H. Dow Memorial Student Achievement Award: Bairav Sabarish Vishnugopi, Purdue University
• Industrial Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Engineering
Division Student Achievement Award: Lauren Clarke, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Nanocarbons Division Robert C. Haddon Research Award: Francis D’Souza, University of North Texas
• Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry Division David C. Grahame Award: Keith Stevenson, Center for Energy Science and Technology (CEST)
The General Student Poster Session included 58 posters. The session’s award winners are:
1st Prize: $1,500 cash award
Raul A. Marquez-Montes, The University of Texas at Austin, “Six Practices to Improve Alkaline Electrolyte Preparation”
2nd Prize: $1,000 cash award
Zenifar Haque, Texas Tech University, “Electrochemical Routes for Polymer Upcycling”
Jessica Ortega Ramos, Texas Tech University,
“Electrochemical Routes for Polymer Upcycling”
leadership reports on the past year’s achievements and the Society’s future trajectory at the Annual Society Business Meeting and Recognition Ceremony.
on the past year with a focus on the Society’s future.
3rd Prize: $500 cash award
Emre Burak Boz, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.
“Electropolymerized Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) Coatings on Porous Carbon Electrodes for Electrochemical Separation of Metals”
President-elect Gerardine (Gerri) Botte presents a compelling vision of the Society’s future, underscoring members’ pivotal role in propelling electrochemical and solid state science and technology for the benefit of humanity.
ECS Secretary Marca Doeff announced Society election results and introduced incoming officers: President-elect Gerardine (Gerri) Botte and 3rd Vice President Francis D’Souza. They join sitting ECS Executive Committee members Senior Vice President Colm O’Dwyer; 2nd Vice President James Fenton; Secretary Marca Doeff; and Treasurer Elizabeth Podlaha-Murphy Treasurer Elizabeth Podlaha-Murphy presented the 2022 Finance Report.
President-elect Gerri Botte presented her vision for the Society’s future and the important role members will play in advancing electrochemical and solid state science and technology for the benefit of all humanity.
Ten division awards were presented during the meeting. Learn more about the award winners in the online meeting program.
• Dielectric Science & Technology Division Thomas D.
Callinan Award: Chennupati Jagadish, Australian National University
ECS leadership presents Z01 award winners with certificates (from left to right): symposium organizer Alice Suroviec, Raul Marquez-Montes (1st prize), ECS President Turgut Gür, Jessica Ortega Ramos (2nd prize), Zenifar Haque (2nd prize), Emre Burak Boz (3rd prize), and ECS CEO Christopher Jannuzzi
ECS thanks the Society members who served as reviewers for the 243rd ECS Meeting Z01 General Student Poster Session.
Round 1:
• David Hall, Universitetet i Stavanger
• Wen Shen, University of Central Florida
• Mohammadreza Nazemi, Colorado State University
Round 2:
• Svitlana Pylypenko, Colorado School of Mines
• Jeffrey Halpern, University of New Hampshire
• John Staser, The Ohio State University
• ECS Exhibit Booth Raffle
Three lucky visitors to the ECS Exhibit Booth won raffle prizes:
• Free meeting registration: Tao Yang, National Energy Technology Laboratory
• ECS Life Membership: Adam Calicki, Sustainable Power Solutions
• Free ECS Monograph: Jyun-Siang Wang, National Cheng Kung University
The Student Mixer was a sold-out event with more than 240 students and early career professionals attending. They mingled in a relaxed setting and enjoyed light hors d’oeuvres and refreshments. Thanks to Pine Research for their sponsorship of the event.
SOFC-XVIII’s co-organizers, Eric Wachsman and Teruhisa Horita, welcomed all attendees and conducted a session with updates from leading SOFC programs around the world. Foremost researchers in solid oxide fuel cells delivered the SOFC plenary talks:
• “Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Hybrid Systems Enable CarbonNeutral Flight in ARPA-E’S REEACH Program” presented by David Tew, US Department of Energy, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
• “US Department of Energy’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Perspectives” presented by William Gibbons, US Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (DOE EERE)
• “The SOFC Program at the DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) and National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)” presented by Shailesh Vora, US Department of Energy
• “The Status of SOFC and SOEC R&D in the Clean Hydrogen Partnership” presented by Mirela Atanasiu, Clean Hydrogen Partnership
• “Introduction of National Projects Concerning Fuel-Cells in Japan” presented by Yosuke Fujii, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)
• “Current Status of SOFC Deployment and Technology Developments in Korea” presented by Rak-Hyun Song, Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER)
The H-TEMP Subhash Singhal Award was presented to Tatsuya Kawada of Tohoku University who then gave his award presentation, “From Electrochemical to Mechanical Modeling of SOFCs and their Experimental Validation.”
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The 18th International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC-XVIII) kicked off their meeting by welcoming participants and providing an overview of the week ahead. The conference is sponsored by the ECS High-Temperature Energy, Materials, & Processes Division and the SOFC Society of Japan. Nearly 400 experts, researchers, and company representatives involved in the field presented at the meeting. All attendees enjoyed light snacks, open bar, networking time, and the opportunity to meet with SOFC organizers and fellow colleagues.
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The meeting featured a cocktail reception and banquet on Tuesday night, with musical entertainment at both events. The current state of SOFC and SOEC technologies was recapped at Friday’s Closing Session. Participants were invited to the next SOFC meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, in July of 2025.
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ECS, its leadership, membership, and its broad family of over 15,000 peer reviewers never want to miss an opportunity to celebrate and show heartfelt gratitude to our peer reviewers who contribute their time and talents to ensure that ECS publishes the highest quality scholarly articles.
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Ali Abdulateef Abdulbari, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Hala Abomostafa, Menoufia University
Mohamed Abouelatta, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Hazem Abu Shawish, Al-Aqsa University Faculty of Applied Sciences
Mohammed Abu-Jafar, An-Najah National University
Sadao Adachi, Gunma University
Kathalingam Adaikalam, Dongguk University
Nicholas Adamski, University of California Santa Barbara
Chandra Adhikari, Fayetteville State University
Vipul Agarwal, Kl University
M. Ahammed, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology
Mukhtar Ahmad, Comsats University Islamabad (Cui)
Rafiq Ahmad, Jamia Millia Islamia
Mohammad Taghi Ahmadi, Urmia University
Hajar Ahmadimoghadam, Shahrekord University
Laouici Aissa, Mechanics Research Center (CRM)
J. Ajayan, SR University
Arvind Ajoy
Sertan Akay, Uludag Universitesi - Gorukle Kampusu
Mostafa Akbari, Technical and Vocational University Tehran
Omid Akhavan, Sharif University of Technology
Gyanendra Kumar Akhtar, Muet, Jamshoro
M. Akhtar, Jeonbuk National University
Iskender Akkurt, Suleyman Demirel Universitesi
Onur Akyildirim, Kafkas University
Yas Al Hadeethi, King Abdulaziz University
Selma M. H. Al-Jawad, University of Technology Iraq
L. Alam, Jamia Millia Islamia
Mehran Alavi, Razi University
Bruno Alho, Universidade Do Estado Do Rio De Janeiro
Asya Ali, Lanzhou University
V. Ali, University of Electronic Science & Technology of China
Malak Ali, Government Post Graduate Jahanzeb College
Salamat Ali, Lanzhou University
Salamat Ali, University of Electronic Science & Technology of China
Vipul Alibeigloo, Tarbiat Modares University
Selma Al-Jawad, University of Technology, Iraq
Mark Allendorf, Sandia National Laboratories
Stephen Allison, Emerging Measurements Co
Emad Al-Mahdawi, Mid Kent College
Sikandar Almani, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology
Kutaiba Al-Marzoki, University of Babylon
Şemsettin Altındal, Gazi University
Tanuj Amemiya, University of Pittsburgh
S. Amin, Jamia Millia Islamia
M. Amine, Mustapha Stambouli Mascara University
Md Amir, IIT Delhi
Yipeng An, Henan Normal University
S. Anand, Korea National University of Transportation
Morgan Anderson, University Space Research Association
Jacob Antonio Andrade-Arvizu, Institut De Recerca En Energìa De Catalunya
Sk Anirban, Govt. General Degree College, Salboni
J. Anjaiah, Geethanjali College of Engineering & Technology
Marco Anni, University of Salento
Zeljka Antic, Univerzitet U Beogradu Institut Za Nuklearne Nauke Vinca
Mohammad Anvarifard, University of Guilan
Fattoum Arbi, Ipei Gafsa
N. Arikan, Osmaniye Korkut Ata University
Keisuke Arimoto, University of Yamanashi
L. Arivazhagan, University of Sharjah
Neti Arora, Chandigarh University
M. Asoh, Kogakuin University
Keziban Atacan, Sakarya University
Muhammet Atan, Hitit University
Raji Atchudan, Yeungnam University
Ali Ati, University of Technology, Iraq
V. Atuchin, Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics Sb Ras
Narasihma Ayachit, Kle Technological University
Sakir Aydogan, Ataturk University
Manara Ayoub, Ain Shams University
Ali Azab, National Research Centre
Sikander Azam, University of West Bohemia
Azaam Aziz, Leibniz Institute for Solid State & Materials Research Dresden
Md Aziz, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Pulkit B., Vinayaka Mission’S Annapoorana College of Education
S. Babu, Clarkson University
Sushanta K. Badamali, Utkal University
Sandeep Badapanda, C V Raman Global University
T. Badapanda, C V Raman Global University
Manoj Bagdziunas, Vilnius University
Kumar Baghayeri, Hakim Sabzevari University
L. Bahmad, Mohammed V Agdal University
Kwang Hyeon Baik, Hongik University
Francesco Baino, Polytechnic University of Turin
Lane Baker, Texas A&M University System
Mikhail Baklanov, NCUT
J. Balamurugan, KAIST
Mohammad Bamdad, Razi University
Javid Banday, NIT Srinagar
Craig Banks, Manchester Metropolitan University
Shu-Juan Bao, Institute for Clean Energy & Advanced Materials
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Poonam Barek, Charles University In Prague
Vladimir Basiuk, UNAM
Balraj Baskaran, K Ramakrishnan College of Technology
S. Baştürk, Manisa Celal Bayar Universitesi
Amirhossein Bayani, Uppsala University
Banarji Behera, Sambalpur University
Debadhyan Behera, Ravenshaw University
Dhrubananda Behera, National Institute of Technology Rourkela
Saubhagyalaxmi Behera, Centurion University of Technology & Management
Somayeh Behzad, Kermanshah University of Technology
Jeffrey Bell, Washington State University
Venkata Lakshmi Narayana K. Ben Ali, Centre For Research On Microelectronics & Nanotechnology of Sousse
Mohamed Salah Benlatreche, Centre Universitàire De Mila
Lazhar Benmebrouk, Université Kasdi Merbah Ouargla
Hamza Bennacer, University of M’Sila Faculty of Scienc
Abdelghani Benyoucef, University of Mascara
Marco Bettinelli, Università Di Verona
Smain Bezzina, King Abdulaziz University
Nikhil Bhalla, Ulster University
Bapurao Bharate, Hokkaido Tokai University Sapporo Campus
Hema Bhardwaj, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Hadi Bhat, National Institute of Technology
Karnataka
Kapil Bhatt, University Institute of Engineering & Technology,
Koyel Bhattacharya
Brinda Bhowmick, NIT Silchar
R. Bhowmik, Pondicherry University
Wengang Bi, Hebei University of Technology
Burak Birol, Yildiz Technical University
Rajender Boddula, Chinese Academy of Sciences
K. B. Bommegowda, N.M.A.M. Institute of Technology
Vidyasagar Boorgula, Trinity College of Engineering & Technology
Geert Van Den Bosch, IMEC
Rašuo Boško, University of Belgrade Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
A. Bouhemadou, University of Ferhat
Abbas Setif 1
A Boukhachem, Universite De Tunis-ElManar
Natalia Bourguignon, Florida International University
Damien Boyer, Institut De Chimie De Clermont-Ferrand
Pınar Bozbeyoğlu, Gümüşhane Univerity
Dhanalakshmi Brammasuri, Aarupadai
Veedu Institute of Technology
Moritz Brehm, Johannes Kepler University Linz
Jakoah Brgoch, University of Houston
Mikhail Brik
Jonas Brunskog, Technical University of Denmark
Dan Buca, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Natalia Bulina, Institute of Solid State Chemistry & Mechanochemistry Sb Ras
Javaid Butt, Anglia Ruskin University
Venkataramanan C., Vivekanandha College of Engineering for Women
Arun Cabaleiro, Universidade De Vigo
Pere Roca I. Cabarrocas, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique
Ali Orkun Çağırtekin, Gazi Universitesi
Wei Cai, Chongqing Key Lab Nano Micro Composite Mat
Soner Çakar, Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit Üniversitesi
Giuseppe Cantarella, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Chuanbao Cao, Beijing Institute of Technology
Renping Cao, Jinggangshan University
Maheswar Caramori
Gabriel Caruntu, Central Michigan University
Enrico Cavalli, University of Parma
Utkarsh Chadha, University of Toronto
Khaled Chahrour, Karabuk University
Apurba Chakrabarthy, Birla Institute of Technology & Science
Patartri Chakraborty, University At Buffalo
Vladimir Chaldyshev, Ioffe Institute
Manash Chanda, MSIT
Bandi Venkata Chandan, Jntuk
Abhijit Chandra, Iowa State University
Zeinab Chandravanshi, Addis Ababa University
Kishor Kumar Chang, Huanghe Science & Technology College
Aimin Chang, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry
Yao-Feng Chang, The University of Texas At Austin
Manjunatha Channegowda, Rv College of Engineering
Yasir Channegowda, Rv College of Engineering
Tien-Sheng Chao, National Chiao Tung University
Dhruba Chatterjee, Presidency University
Kolkata
Avik Chattopadhyay, University of Calcutta
Vishal Chaudhary, Bhagini Nivedita College
Vishal Chaudhary, University of Delhi
Jyothirmayee Chaudhary, Bhagini Nivedita College
Avtar Chaudhary, University of Delhi
Fuei Pien Chee, Universiti Malaysia Sabah
Wei Chen, Guangxi Normal University
Gyanendra Kumar Chen, Iowa State University
Jiezhi Chen, Shandong University
Lingyun Chen, Chongqing University
Po-Yu Chen, Kaohsiung Medical University
Qingming Chen, Kunming University of Science & Technology
Shaowei Chen, University of California, Santa Cruz
Siqi Chen, Tongji University
Sung-Te Chen, Hsiuping University of Science & Technology
Wei Chen, University of Science & Technology of China
Yang Chen, Changzhou Univ
Zhi Chen, Minjiang University
Zimin Chen, Sun Yat-Sen University
Jie Cheng, China University of Mining & Technology Beijing Campus
Yongzhi Cheng, Hubei Longzhong Lab
Artit Chingsungnoen, Mahasarakham University
Praveen Chippa, Osmania University
Hsien-Chin Chiu, Chang Gung University
Weesiong Chiu, Universiti Malaya
L. Chlistunoff, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Kyeong-Keun Choi, Pohang University of Science & Technology
Sungho Choi, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology
Woo Young Choi, Seoul National University
Yong Gyu Choi, Korea Aerospace University
Ravi Kant Choubey, Amity University Noida
Amitava Choudhury, Missouri University of Science & Technology
Yen-Lin Chu, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc
Roy Byung Kyu Chung, Kyungpook National University
Woon Jin Chung, Kongju National University
Stefano Cinti, University of Naples
Federico II
Vincent Clark, Johns Hopkins University
Asya Clark, Johns Hopkins University
John Collins, Wheaton College
Christian Compagnoni, Politechnico Milano
James P. Connolly, Sorbonne Universite
Vincent Crasta, St Joseph Engineering College
Frank Crespilho, University of São Paulo Institute of Biomedical Sciences
Paolo Crippa, Università Politecnica Delle Marche
Olivier Crosnier, Polytech Nantes
Giovanni Crupi, University of Messina
Satish Chandra D., Vignan’s Foundation For Science Technology & Research
Katherasan D., Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Engineering College
Nirmal D., Karunya Institute of Technology & Sciences
Giulio D’Amato, Sysman Progetti & Servizi S.R.L. Roma, Italy
Ibrahim Mohammed Danmallam, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto Nigeria
Kais Daoudi, University of Sharjah
Jagotamoy Das, Northwestern University
Nityananda Das, Jagannath Kishore College
Priyanka Das, Jackson State University
Sidhartha Dash, Siksha O Anusandhan University
Fabio De Matteis, Università Degli Studi Di Roma Tor Vergata
Gagan Deep, Wake Forest School of Medicine
Selcuk Demirezen, Amasya University
Adil Denizli, Hacettepe Üniversitesi
Tanuj Deswal, Central University of Jammu
Sandeep Dhariwal, Alliance University
Neerja Dharmale, National Institute of Technology Silchar
Andrea Di Pasquale, INNOVA Consorzio per l’Informatica e la Telematica s.r.l.
Catarina Dias
Daryoosh Dideban, University of Kashan
Volkmar Dierolf, Lehigh University
Yi Ding, Hangzhou Normal University
Pradeep Dixit, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Faycal Djeffal, University of Batna 2
Karim Djouani, Universite Paris-EstCreteil-Val-De-Marne
Toshiro Doi, Kyushu University
Bin Dong, China University of Petroleum
Guohui Dong, Shaanxi University of Science & Technology
Koray B. Dönmez, Sabanci Universitesi
Pieter Dorenbos, Delft University of Technology
Xincun Dou, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sathish Dr. M., Central Electrochemical Research Institute
M Dr. M. C. Hegde, Ranichennamma University
Miroslav Dramicanin, University of Belgrade
Vinayak Dravid, Northwestern University
Yonghua Duan, Kunming University of Science
Prabhat Dubey, University of Pisa
Salvador Duenas, Universidad De Valladolid
Doan Dung, Tay Nguyen University
Ateet Dutt, Unam Iim
Aida Ebrahimi, Penn State University
Behzad Ebrahimi, Islamic Azad University
Arzu Ege, Celal Bayar University
Jehan El Nady, City of Scientific Research & Technological Applications
S El-Gamal, Northern Borders University
Marwa Elkady, Egypt-Japan University of Science & Technology
Elkenany Elkenany, Mansoura University
M. Ellouze, Universite De Sfax
Omar Elmazria, Universite De Lorraine
Ossama El-Shazly, Alexandria University
Said El-Sheikh, CMRDI
Amir Elzwawy, National Research Centre
Nikita Emelianov, Kursk State University
Azadeh Alsadat Emrani Zarandi, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
Irmak Karaduman Er, Çankırı Karatekin Üniversitesi
Murat Erdem, Istanbul Technical University
F. Ersan, Adnan Menderes University
Amir Ershad-Langroudi, Iran Polymer & Petrochemical Research Institute
Farhad Esmaeili Ghodsi, University of Guilan
A. Evcin, Afyon Kocatepe University
M Fadavieslam, Damghan Univ
Gang Fan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Guohua Fan, Shandong University
Jau-Shiung Fang, National Formosa University
Xiaosheng Fang, Fudan University
Mohammad Faraj, Kaya University
Syed Farid Uddin Farhad, Bangladesh Council of Scientific & Industrial Research
Ronaldo Censi Faria, Universidade Federal De Sao Carlos
Muhammad Akhyar Farrukh, Forman Christian Coll
Hossein Fashandi, Isfahan University of Technology
Nady Fathy, National Research Centre (NRC)
Lai Feng, Soochow University
Alanah Fitch, Loyola University
Paolo Fornasiero, University of Trieste
Mariaenrica Frigione, University of Salento
Li Fu, Hangzhou Dianzi University
Houqiang Fu, Arizona State University
Jian Fu, Hefei University of Technology
Shinobu Fujihara, Keio University
Mamoru Furuta, Kochi University of Technology
Seetarama Raju G., Dongguk University
Lakshmi Priya G., Vit University
Lalitha G., Telangana University
Eric Gabilondo, NCSU
Samia Gad, National Research Centre
Nikita Gagrani
Chong Leong Gan, Micron Technology Inc
R. Ganesh, Japan Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
Ashok Ganguli, IIT Delhi
De Gao, Qingdao University
Feng Gao, Northwestern Polytechnical University
Peng Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Rongli Gao, Chongqing University of Science & Technology
Ismael Garduño-Wilches, CICATA-IPN
Pulkit Garg, University of California Irvine
Sandeep Garg, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology
Sahil Gasso, Guru Nanak Dev University
Maximiliano Gavilán Arriazu, CONICET
Tobias Geback, Chalmers University of Technology
Metin Gençten, Yildiz Technical University
Khadijeh Ghanbari, Alzahra University
Puja Ghosh, IIIT Ranchi
Edward Gillan, The University of Iowa
Leonardo Giorgi, Materials Science & Electrochemistry
J. Glaab, Ferdinand-Braun-Institut LeibnizInstitut Fuer Hoechstfrequenztechnik (Fbh)
Luis Godínez, Universidad Autónoma De Querétaro
Anubha Goel, Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology
Mohana Rani Gokana, National Taiwan University of Science & Technology
Muharrem Gokcen, Duzce University
A. Goktas, Harran University
Mohamed Gomaa, National Research Centre
Jyothirmayee Gong, University of The Chinese Academy of Sciences
Roman Gorenkov, I M Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University
Naqash Goswami, Sichuan University of Science & Engineering
Kazuhiro Gotoh, Nagoya University
Mani Govindasamy, Ming Chi University of Technology
Akshay Gowda, Intel Corp
Arockiajawahar Anancia Grace, Alagappa University
Carlos Grandini, UNESP
Thiery Grosdidier, Universite Paul Verlaine Metz
Marco Grossi, University of Bologna
J. Gudmundsson, Royal Institute of Technology
Payal Gulati, National Institute of Immunology
Chongfeng Guo, Northwest University
Daoyou Guo, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
Zhanhu Guo, University of Tennessee
Knoxville
Hai Guo, Zhejiang Normal University
Manoj Gupta, Advanced Materials & Processes Research Institute CSIR
Neeraj Gupta, Amity University
Pallav Gupta, Amity University
R. Gupta, Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology
Ram Gupta, Pittsburg State University
Shikhar Gupta, IIT Roorkee
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A. Hafiz, Jamia Millia Islamia Central University
Manabu Hagiwara, Keio University
F. Hajiyeva, Baku State University
Mohsen Hajizamani, Graduate University of Advanced Technology
Abdul Hakeem, Guangdong University of Technology
Sharifan Hamidreza, Albany State University
Young-Kyu Han, Dongguk Univ. Seoul
Jung Han, Yale University
Tae-Hee Han, Hanyang University
Tao Han, Chongqing University of Arts & Sciences
Kazi Hanium Maria, University of Dhaka
John Harb, Brigham Young University
Venkat Hariharan, Micron Technology Utah LLC
Kumar Harshit, Newcastle University
Hossam Hassan, Cairo University
Gufeng He, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Yangang He, Hebei Univ. Technol.
Yiming He, Zhejiang Normal University
Gang He, Anhui University
Kurt Hebert, Iowa State Univ.
Ping Hei, Southwest University of Science & Technology
Emna Helal, Nanoxplore, Canada
Shiuh-Chuan Her, Yuan Ze University
Dennis W. Hess, Georgia Institute of Technology
Yasuto Hijikata, Saitama University
R. Hisam, Universiti Teknologi Mara
Jennifer Hite, US Naval Research Laboratory
Ghim Wei Ho, National University Singapore
Yaovi Holade, Institut Européen Des Membranes
Jiman Hong, Soongsil University
Sung-Hoon Hong, ETRI
Yasushi Hoshino, Kanagawa University
Md Imran Hossain, Nanoaffix Science LLC
Md Hossain, Kyushu University
Jaker Hossain, University of Rajshahi
Feier Hou, Western Oregon University
Yu-Jen Hsiao, Southern Taiwan University of Science & Technology
Sun-Yuan Hsieh, National Cheng Kung University
Yu-Kuei Hsu, National Dong Hwa University
Shengdong Hu, Chongqing University
Yang Hu, Technical University of Denmark
Xiaoyong Huang, Taiyuan University of Technology
Yanlin Huang, Soochow University
Shahid Husain, Aligarh Muslim University
Jenn-Gwo Hwu, National Taiwan University
Fatma Ibrahim, King Khalid University
M. Ikram, Government College University Lahore
Bouraoui Ilahi, University of Sherbrooke
Filip Ilie, Univ Politehn Bucuresti
Rosalinda Inguanta, University of Palermo
Faisal Iqbal, Riphah International University Faisalabad
Fumitaka Ishiwari, Osaka University
Tarikul Islam, Jamia Millia Islamia
Abu Bashar Mohammad Hamidul Islam, Korea Institute of Energy Technology
Mukhlis Ismail, Middle Technical University Institute of Technology
Tetsuhiko Isobe, Keio University
Shams Issa, University of Tabuk
Andrii Iurov, Medgar Evers College of City University of New York
Mazdak Izadi, Hamedan University of Technology
Arockia Selvi J., SRM Institute of Science & Technology
S. Jabasingh, Addis Ababa University
Sunil Jadav, J.C. Bose University of Science
K. M. Jadhav, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University
Santosh Jadhav, D S M’s Arts, Commerce, & Science College
Poonam Jaglan, Panipat Institute of Engineering & Technology
Aditya Jain, Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Pk Jain, ARCI
Samira Jalilvand, Razi University
Parikshit Jamdade, PVG College of Engineering & Technology
Muhammad Jamil, Konkuk University
Subhendu Jana, North Carolina State University At Raleigh
Ho Seong Jang, Purdue Univ.
Houk Jang, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Puneet Jawali, Lam Research Corp
Nagabandi Jayababu, IISER Berhampur
G. Jayakumar, Sacred Heart Coll. Autonomous
Vinoth Kumar Jayaraman, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research Madras Complex
C. Jayasankar, Sri Venkateswara University
Samson Olaitan Jeje, National Agency for Science & Engineering Infrastructure
Biswajit Jena, VIT University
Jun-Cheol Jeon, Kongju National University
Guangbin Ji, Nanjing University
Yanmin Jia, Zhejiang Normal University
Jikang Jian, Guangdong University of Technology
Xuanyuan Jiang, University of Florida
Wei Jin, Institute of Process Engineering
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Takashi Jin, RIKEN BDR
Yan Jun, Haerbin Engineering University
Hyun Suk Jung, Sungkyunkwan University
Venkata Lakshmi Narayana K. K., Vellore Institute of Technology
Gopi Krishna K., CMR Technical Campus
Abdelmadjid Kaddour, CDER URAER
Thomas Kadyk, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH
Jakrapong Kaewkhao, Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University
Golap Kalita, Nippon Denko Co Ltd
Ethan Kamphaus, Argonne National Laboratory
Tetsuya Kaneko, Tokai University
Manoranjan Kar, IIT Patna
Inci Karaca, Gazi University Faculty of Dentistry
I Kariper, Erciyes University
Kamala Bharathi Karuppanan, SRM Institute of Science & Technology
Hadi Kasani, University of Mohaghegh
Ardabili
M Kasim, University Teknikal Malaysia
Melaka
Veeraputhiran Kathiravan, Annamalai University
Raju Kati, Kumoh National Institute of Technology
Masashi Kato, Nagoya Institute of Technology
Ajeet Kumar Kaushik, Florida Polytechnical University
Kaan Kececi, Istanbul Medeniyet University
Nandan Baradanahalli Kenchappa, Clarkson University
J. Kennedy, GNS Science Ltd
Sherif M. Keshk, Centre De Recherche Et Des Technologies De L’Energie De Borj Cedria
Ilker Keskin, Manisa Celal Bayar Universitesi
Fatemeh Keyvani, University of Waterloo
Hossein Khademolhosseini, Islamic Azad University
Mohammad Khalid, Sunway University
Ziaul Raja Khan, University of Hail
Shakeel Ahmad Khandy, Zhejiang University
Aniruddh Jagdish Khanna, Applied Materials Inc
Virat Khanna, Maharaja Agrasen University
Neamul Khansur, Friedrich-AlexanderUniversität
Poonam Kharangarh, University of Delhi
Ayush Khare, NIT Raipur
Saurabh Kharwar, NIT Patna
Mehrdad Khatami, Kerman University of Medical Sciences
G. Khatibi, Technische Universität Wien
Pankaj Khirade, Shri Shivaji Science College Amravati
Rudolf Kiefer, Ton Duc Thang University
Dong Joo Kim, Auburn University
Jeonghun Kim, Yonsei University
Daegwi Kim, Osaka City University
H.-W. Kim, Dankook University
Hyungjun Kim, Yonsei Univ
Jihyun Kim, Seoul National University
Jiwan Kim, Kyonggi University
Sang-Jae Kim, Jeju National University
Seong Keun Kim, Korea Institute of Science & Technology
Sungjun Kim
Taesung Kim, Sungkyunkwan University
Mutsumi Kimura, Ryukoku University
Sean King, Intel Corp
Roy Knechtel, University of Applied Sciences Schmalkalden
Andrew Knights, McMaster University
Yoshinori Kobayashi, Waseda University
Jessica Koehne, NASA Ames Research Center
Junichi Koike, Tohoku University
Pankaj Koinkar, University of Tokushima
Takuto Kojima, Nagoya University
Vamsi Krishna Komarala, IIT Delhi
Venumadhav Korampally, Northern Illinois University
Klaus Koren, Aarhus Universitet
Muaz Köroğlu, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University
Chandra Sekhar Kotagiri, Osmania University
M. Krishna, University of Hyderabad
Sadagopan Krishnan, Oklahoma State University System
Sebastian Kruss, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Pawan Kulriya, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Raj Kumar, Panjab University
Abhishek Kumar, University At Buffalo
Ajay Kumar, Jaypee IIT
Bhavya Kumar, Delhi Technological University
Samir Kumar, Korea University
Arun Kumar, University of Salerno
Naveen Kumar, NIT Jalandhar
Naveen Kumar, University of Glasgow
Nishant Kumar, National University of Singapore
Parmod Kumar, J.C. Bose University of Science & Technology
Parvin Kumar, Krishna Institute of Engineering & Technology
Prashanth Kumar, VIT University
Rajesh Kumar, IIT Indore
Senthil Kumar, National Physical Laboratory CSIR
Vijay Kumar, NIT Srinagar
Vipin Kumar, KIET Group of Institutions
Rajkishor Kumar, VIT
Amrit Kumar Thakur, University of California Merced
Shalini Kumari, The Pennsylvania State University
Venkata Krishnaiah Kummara, Rajeev Gandhi Mem. Coll. Eng.
Hideya Kumomi, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Darshan Kundaliya, Ams-Osram Ag
Yue Kuo, Texas A&M University
Samir Labiod, University of 20 August 1955 Skikda
Abhishek Lahiri, Brunel University London
Wei-Chih Lai, National Cheng Kung University
Wen-Yong Lai, Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications
Wen-How Lan, National University of Kaohsiung
Ray Lapierre, McMaster University
Trong Lu Le, Vietnam Academy of Science & Technology
Arnaud Le Febvrier, Linkopings Universitet
Ching-Sung Lee, Feng Chia University
Ching-Ting Lee, Yuan Ze University
In-Hwan Lee, Korea University
Jae-Seung Lee, Korea University
Ji-Myon Lee, Suncheon National University
Kyunghwan Lee, Samsung Electronics
Min-Hung Lee, National Taiwan Normal University
Kevin D. Leedy, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Hong Lei, Shanghai University
Markus Leitgeb, TU Wien
Brian Leonard, University of Wyoming
Nathaniel Leslie, McGill University
Fei Li, Xi’An Jiaotong University
Xinming Li, South China Normal University
Fanxing Li, NCSU
Guangli Li, Hunan University of Technology
Guochang Li, Qingdao University of Science & Technology
Jian-Min Li
Jiheng Li, University of Science
Jinglei Li, Xi’An Jiaotong University
Kai Li, China University of Petroleum Beijing
Li Li, Chongqing University of Posts & Telecommunications
Lingwei Li, Hangzhou Dianzi University
Lingxia Li, Tianjin University
Panyu Li, Sichuan University
Qiliang Li, George Mason University
Shijie Li, Zhejiang Ocean University
Wei Li, West Virginia University
Wenshen Li, Cornell University
Xiangping Li, Dalian Maritime University
Yan Li, East China University of Science
Baoyan Liang, Zhongyuan University of Technology
Chi-Te Liang, National Taiwan University
Jiran Liang, Tianjin University
Yujun Liang, China University of Geosciences
Nikita Liedienov, Jilin University
Elton Lima, Federal University of Tocantins
Chia Feng Lin, National Chung Hsing University
Chun-Hsiung Lin, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Hang Lin, Fujian Institute of Research on The Structure of Matter
Tan Ling Ling, Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia
Han-Yin Liu, National Sun Yat Sen University
Ershuai Liu, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
C W Liu, National Taiwan University
Gang Liu, Southwest University
Jinyu Liu, University of California Irvine
Laijun Liu, Guilin University of Technology
Ru-Shi Liu, National Taiwan University
Sen Liu, Jilin University
Wenzhu Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xianhua Liu, Tianjin University
Xiao Liu, Xi’An University of Science & Technology
Xizhe Liu, Jilin University
Yi Liu, National Cheng Kung University
Yuan Liu, Jiangsu University
Yuhai Liu, Zhengzhou University
Zhengxin Liu, Renmin University of China
Zhihai Liu, Yantai University
Sajad Loan, Jamia Millia Islamia
John Lock, Triton Systems Inc
Shibing Long, University of Science
Roger Loo, IMEC
Michael Loong Peng Tan, Universiti
Teknologi Malaysia
Andriy Lotnyk, Leibnitz Institute of Surface Engineering
Geyu Lu, Jilin University
Xianmao Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hui Lu, North Minzu University
Xiang Lu, Huazhong University of Science
Xiangning Lu, Jiangsu Normal University
Michael Lufaso, University of North Florida
Shyh-Chyang Luo, National Taiwan University
Christine Luscombe, Okinawa Institute of Science
Dan Lv, Shenyang University of Technology
Yuanjie Lv, National Key Laboratory of Asic, Hebei Semiconductor Research Institute
Batoo K. M., King Saud University
Qian Ma, RMIT University
Tao Ma, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
William Cheng-Yu Ma, National Sun YatSen University
Jaya Madan, Chitkara University
G. Madhu, M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology
Hend Magar, National Research Centre
Paul Maggard, North Carolina State University
Giovanni Magno, C2N
Priya Mahadevan, S N Bose National Centre For Basic Sciences
Anil Mahapatro, Wichita State University
Prof. Mahmood, University of The Punjab
Abd El-Razek Mahmoud, South Valley University Egypt
G. Mahmoud, National Research Centre
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Hanh Hong Mai, Vnu University of Science
Manoj Kumar Majumder, IIIT–Naya
Raipur
Sutripto Majumder, Yeungnam University
Katsunori Makihara, Nagoya University
Yoga Trianzar Malik, Universitàs
Padjadjaran
Cosimino Malitesta, University of Salento
Sadhucharan Mallick, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University
Sourav Mandal, IIT - Delhi
Elangovan Mani, Government College of Engineering - Srirangam
Pandiaraj Manickam, CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute
Jamballi G. Manjunatha, FMKMC College, A Constituent College of Mangalore University
R. Manu, Sri Vyasa NSS College
Łukasz Marciniak, Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research
R. Marnadu, GTN Arts College
Sanela Martic, Trent University
Rodrigo Martins, Universidade Nova De Lisboa
Michael Mastro, US Naval Research Laboratory
Toshiyuki Masui, Tottori University
Yasser Mater, Nile University
F. Mazaleyrat, Universite Paris Saclay
Erin McBride
Sher Singh Meena, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Shahid Mehmood, Thammasat University
Andries Meijerink, Utrecht University
Girish Kumar Mekala, TKR College of Engineering & Technology
Radovan Metelka, University of Pardubice
Ingrid Milosev, Jozef Stefan Institute
Takanori Mimura, Gakushuin University
Rui Min, Beijing Normal University Zhuhai
Manickam Minakshi, Murdoch University
Tsuyoshi Minami, The University of Tokyo
Feroz Ahmad Mir, BGSB University
Rajouri
Ali Mirzaei, Shiraz University of Technology
Guru Mishra, NIT Raipur
Yogendra Kumar Mishra, University of Southern Denmark
Durga Misra, NJIT
Yasuyuki Miyamoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Jibon Krishna Modak, Osaka University
Negin Moezi, Technical & Vocational University
Thomas Moffat, National Institute of Standards & Technology
Abdul Rahman Mohamed, Universiti Sains Malaysia
M. Mohamed, Alexandria University
Faculty of Science
Mustafa Mohammad Rafiei, Shahid
Bahonar University of Kerman
Saeed Mohammadi, Semnan University
S. Mohapatra, KIIT University
Sanjiv Moharil, Nagpur University
Faisal Mohd-Yasin, Griffith University
Maxim Molokeev, Kirensky Institute of Physics
Angelo Monguzzi, Università Degli Studi Di Milano-Bicocca
Ibrahim Morad, Suez University
O. Moran, Universidad Nacional De Colombia
Julio Gutiérrez Moreno, Barcelona Supercomputer Center (BSC-CNS)
Bohayra Mortazavi, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Neil Moser, US Air Force Res. Lab
Deia Moubarak, Banha University
George Mousdis, National Hellenic Research Foundation
Essam Moustafa, King Abdulaziz University
Yurij Mozharivskyj, McMaster University
Raghasudha Mucherla, National Institute of Technology Warangal
Raju Mudavath, Osmania University
Biswajeet Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Information Technology Design
Kalisadhan Mukherjee, CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute
Junji Murata, Ritsumeikan University
Muhammad Mushtaq, University of The Poonch Rawalakot
Panneer Muthuselvam, Banaras Hindu University
Lucia Mutihac, University of Bucharest
Roman Mysyk, CIC EnergiGUNE
Noseung Myung, Konkuk University
Ali Naderi, Kermanshah University of Technology
K. Nagabhushana, Federal University of Sao Paulo
Abhimanyu Nain, GJUS&T
Anish Nair, Kalasalingam Academy of Research & Education
Tomohiko Nakajima, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology
Anton Naumov, Texas Christian University
Ameur Nawal, University of Tlemcen
Ganesh Nayak, Indian Institute of Technology
Maheswar Nayak, Raja Ramanna Centre For Advanced Technology
Aruna Neelam, National Institute of Technology Warangal
Victor Nemykin, University of Tennessee
Nhat Truong Nguyen, Concordia University
Duc Chien Nguyen, Hanoi University of Science & Technology
Cam-Phu Nguyen, University of New South Wales
Hieu Pham Trung Nguyen, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Zifeng Ni, Jiangnan Univ.
Ravi Nirlakalla, Rajeev Gandhi Memorial College of Engineering & Technology
Kazuyuki Nishio, Tokyo University of Technology
Mai Nitta, University At Buffalo
Gang Niu, Xian Jiaotong Univ. Xian
Hamid Rashidi Nodeh, Stand. Res. Inst. SRI
Michael Nolan, Tyndall National Institute
N. Noor, Riphah Int. Univ.
Prof. Numbury, The University of Dodoma
Stephen O’Brien, City University of New York (CUNY) System
M. Oehme, University of Stuttgart
Catherine Oertel, Oberlin College and Conservatory
Shuichi Ogawa, Nihon University
Il-Kwon Oh, Ajou University
Nuri Oh, Hanyang University
Hiromasa Ohmi, Osaka University
Rubel Oleg, McMaster University
Yasuhisa Omura, Kansai University
Serdar Onses, Erciyes University
Francis Opoku, Kwame Nkrumah University Science
Ovidiu Oprea, Polytechnic University of Bucharest
Gernot Oreski, Polymer Competence Ctr Leoben GmbH
Paulo F. Ortega, Centro Federal De Educação Tecnológica De Química De Nilópolis
Jian Zhen Ou, RMIT University
A. Oueslati, Universite De Sfax
Marwène Oumezzine, University of Monastir
Sibel A. Ozkan, Ankara University
Uma Sathyakam P., Vellore Institute of Technology
Murugapandiyan P., Agnel Institute of Technology & Design
Nagarajan P., Rajalakshmi Institute of Technology
Venkatramana P., SVEC
Giridharan P. K., Amrita University
Smitha P. S., SCT College of Engineering
Rajib Padhee, Sambalpur University
Georgiana Paduraru, University Politehnica of Bucharest
Venugopal Reddy Paduru, Osmania University
Balaji Padya, ARCI
Lakshmi Sowjanya Pali, Vellore Institute of Technology
Likun Pan, East China Normal University
Zhenxiao Pan, South China Agricultural University
Deepak Panda, VIT-AP University
Padmalochan Panda, IIT Bombay
Annu Pandey, Chandigarh University
Chandan Pandey, VIT-AP University
Richa Pandey, University of Calgary
Huan Pang, Yangzhou University
Li-Xia Pang, Xi’An Technological University
Vladimir Panic, University of Belgrade
Asisa Kumar Panigrahy, Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering & Technology
Gasidit Panomsuwan, Kasetsart University
Hong-Gyu Park, Changwon National University
Jin-Goo Park, Hanyang University
K. Park, Sejong University
Suat Pat, Eskisehir Osmangazi Universitesi
Divyansh Patel, IIT Bhubaneswar
Dinesh Pathak, The University of The West Indies St Augustine Campus
V. Patil, Solapur University
Erin Patrick, University of Florida
Pankaj K. Patro, Bhabha Atomic Research Center
Georges Pavlidis, University of Connecticut
Stephen Pearton, University of Florida
Henrik Pedersen, Linkoping University
Yu-Ming Peng, Industrial Technology Research Institute
Suresh Perumal, SRM Institute of Science & Technology
Koteswara Rao Peta, University of Delhi
Shaikshavali Petnikota, Italian Institute of Technology
Alan Piquette, Osram Sylvania Inc
Ramchandra Pode, Kyung Hee University
Dirk Poelman, Ghent University
Alexander Polyakov, National University of Science & Technology MISIS
V. Ponnusamy, Anna University
Nagamony Ponpandian, Bharathiar University
Digamber Porob, Goa University
N. Posthuma, IMEC
Nagaraju Pothukanuri, Sreenidhi University
Rainer Pöttgen, University of Münster
Bipin Pr, Ilahia College of Engineering & Technology
D. Prabhakar, Sheshadri Rao Gudlavalleru Engineering College (A)
Aarathi Pradeep, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Yogesh Pratap, Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences For Women
Guillaume Prenat, Universite Grenoble Alpes (Uga)
Asit Baran Puri, NIT Durgapur
Linmao Qian, Southwest Jiaotong University
Yan Qian, Nanjing University of Posts
Yujie Qiang, University of Science & Technology Beijing
Xin-Ping Qu, Fudan University
Sudarmani R., Avinashilingam Institute For Home Science & Higher Education For Women
Yong Ho Ra
Muhammad Rafiq, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur
Subrina Rafique, Case Western Reserve University
Md Rahaman, University of New South Wales Sydney
Obaid Ur Rahman, University of Science
Meisam Rahmani, Buein Zahra Technical University
Dibya Prakash Rai, Pachhunga University College
Shani Raj, Mohanlal Sukhadia University
M. Rajaram, St Peter’s University
M. Rajasimman, Annamalai University
Krishnan Rajeshwar, University of Texas
Shailendra Rajput, Chandigarh University
Suresh Raman Pillai, Nanyang Technological University
Jeyakumar Ramanujam, CSIR-National Physical Laboratory
M. Ramesan, University of Calicut
Zeinab Ramezani, University of Miami
Geeta Rani, University of Delhi Miranda House
Ravi Ranjan, Dr Br Ambedkar National Institute of Technology
P. Rao, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science & Technology
Chandresh Kumar Rastogi, Centre For Advanced Studies (CAS)
S. V. Ratankumar, RGM College of Engineering & Technology
Jitendra Singh Rathore, Birla Institute of Technology & Science
Sunita Rattan, Amity University Noida
Manickam Ravichandran, K Ramakrishnan College of Engineering
Pooja Rawat, Kyung Hee University
Abhishek Rawat, The University of Texas At Arlington
Abhijit Ray, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University
Jitendra Singh Reddicherla, Inha University
Umapathi Reddicherla, Inha University
Mohamed Refaat, Cairo University
Zhaokun Ren, Harbin Institute of Technology
Abdalhossein Rezai, ACECR
Tripti Richhariya, Kalinga University
Syed Zuhaib Haider Rizvi, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
A. Rogachev, The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Laura Romeo, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche
V. Rosset, University of Auckland
Vipul Rousakis, Massachusetts General Hospital
B. Routray, SRM University
Ranjith R., SNS College of Technology
Ramesh R., VIT - Chennai
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Jyothirmayee S., Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Ahmad S. Jbara, Al Muthanna University
Perçin Özkorucuklu Sabriye, Istanbul University
Ashish Sachdeva, Chitkara University
Kishor Kumar Sadasivuni, Qatar University
Yasir Saeed, KAUST
Mohd Saeed, King Abdulaziz University
Suresh Sagadevan, University of Malaya
Md Sagar, Washington State University
Rajesh Saha, MNIT Jaipur
Seshadev Sahoo, Siksha O Anusandhan University
Girija Sahoo, Vellore Institute of Technology
Prangya P. Sahoo, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Prasanta Sahoo, Jadavpur University
Subasa Sahoo, Central University of Kerala
Fatiha Saidi, Abou Bekr Belkaid University
Tlemcen
Gaurav Saini, NIT Kurukshetra
Monika Saini, Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science & Technology
Yuta Saito, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology
K. Sakthipandi, Indian Institute of Science
A. Sakthivel, Central University of Kerala
Masao Sakuraba, Tohoku University
Tawfik A. Saleh
Constantinos E. Salmas, University of Ioannina
Debasis Samanta, CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute
Tuhin Samanta, Hanyang University
Monica Santamaria, Università Di Palermo
Gopi Krishna Saramekala, National Institute of Technology Calicut
M. Saravanan, SRM Institute of Science & Technology
Mehdi Saremi, Applied Materials Inc
Angsuman Sarkar, Kalyani Government Engineering College
Sumant Sarkar, Lam Research Corp
Jyothirmayee Satapathy, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham School of Arts & Sciences
Amritapuri
Manoj Saxena, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College
M. Sayyed, University of Tabouk
Emanuela Schilirò, IMM CNR
Michael Schneider, TU Wien
Catinca Secuianu, Imperial College London
Praveen Sekhar, Washington State University
Tanuj Sekhar, Washington State University
Aymen Selmi, University of Tunis El Manar
Tamil Selvan, CMC Materials Inc
Baskar Selvaraj, National Taiwan University
R. Sengwa, Jai Narain Vyas University
S. Rudraswamy, Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering
S. Senthil Kumar, Vellore Institute of Technology
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Hyungtak Seo, Ajou University
Jihoon Seo, Clarkson University
Jung-Hun Seo, The State University of New York At Buffalo
Tae-Yeon Seong, Korea University
Anant Setlur, GE Global Research
Esam Shaaban, Al-Azhar University
E. Shafiei, Islamic Azad University
Amit P. Shah, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Masoud Shahrokhi, Université Claude Bernard Lyon
Javid Shaik, RGMCET
Sadasivan Shaji, Universidad Autonoma De Nuevo Leon
Mengmeng Shang, Shandong University
M. Shanmugam, Emory University School of Medicine
Fazel Sharifi, Shahid Beheshti Univ.
Fariborz Sharifian Jazi, University of Georgia
Deepak Sharma, MDU
Pankaj Sharma, National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training & Research Chandigarh
Ribhu Sharma, Infineon Technologies Americas Corp
Vipin Kumar Sharma, IIMT Univ.
Walid Sharmoukh, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Pulkit Shaver, Johns Hopkins Medicine School of Medicine
Zong-Yang Shen, Jingdezhen Ceramic University
Chang Sheng Hsiung, Chung Yuan Christian University
Nagaraj Shetti, KLE Institute of Technology
Zhicheng Shi, Ocean University of China
Toshihiro Shimada, Hokkaido University
Atsushi Shimbori, University of Texas System
Dong-Soo Shin, Hanyang University
Sagar E. Shirsath, University of New South Wales Sydney
Mohd Shkir, Glocal Univ.
Yogesh Shrivastava, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology
C. Shuck, Drexel University
Michael Shur, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Vladimir V. Shvartsman, University of Duisburg Essen
Hafsa Siddiqui, Advanced Materials & Processes Research Institute CSIR
Claudia Maria Simonescu, Polytechnic University of Bucharest
Sandeep Simoska, University of Utah
Vinamrita Singh, Netaji Subhas University of Technology
Ajaya Singh, Government VYTPG Autonomous College Durg
Amandeep Singh, National Institute of Technology Srinagar
Avtar Singh, Adama Science & Technology University
Avtar Singh, NIT Silchar
Gyanendra Kumar Singh, Adama Science & Technology University
Jay Singh, Banaras Hindu University
Neha Singh, Manipal University Jaipur
Prabhat Singh, NIT Hamirpur
Raghendra Pratap Singh, Shandong University
Rajveer Singh, University of Delhi
Ravindra Pratap Singh, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University
Surendra Singh, Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University
Tejbir Singh, Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University
Vinamrita Singh, NSUT
Siva Siva, SRM Institute of Science & Technology
G. S. Slacheva, Voronezh State Technical University
Zdenek Slanina, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
Billel Smaani, Centre Universitàire Abdelhafid Boussouf, Mila
Marshall Smart, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Soheil Sobhanardakani, Islamic Azad University
Ashaq Hussain Sofi, University of Kashmir
Pratima Solanki, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Huajun Song, China University of Petroleum
Peng Song, University of Jinan
Taeseup Song, Hanyang University
Young Suh Song, Korea Military Academy
Zhaoning Song, The University of Toledo
P. H. Soni, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Manoj Sonker, University of Delhi
Sonu Sonu, Shoolini University
Mark Spitler, University of North Carolina Research Opportunities Initiative
Ch Srinivas, Sasi Institute of Technology & Engineering
Prof. Srinivas, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Alok Srivastava, Current Lighting Solution, LLC
Vipul Srivastava, Lovely Professional University
Michael Stavola, Lehigh University
Michael Stroscio, University of Illinois Chicago
V. Sudarsan, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Muhammad Sulaman, Beijing Institute of Technology
Ian Sullivan, California Institute of Technology
Haiding Sun, Boston University
Kai Sun, Shanghai Maritime University
Weifeng Sun, Nanyang Technological University
Xianke Sun, Zhoukou Normal University
Kumar Sundramoorthy, Saveetha Institute of Medical & Technical Sciences
Şana Sungur, Mustafa Kemal Universitesi Fen Edebiyat Fakultesi
L. Susheela, Malla Reddy University
M. Swaminathan, Kalasalingam Academy of Research
Tushar Swamy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mikhail Syroeshkin, Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry
TXavier T. S., Government College for Women Thiruvananthapuram
Naveen Kumar T. R., University of Shanghai for Science & Technology
Arun Samuel T. S., National Engineering College
Kiran Kumar Tadi, Vellore Institute of Technology
Nikos Tagmatarchis, National Hellenic Research Foundation
Sahil Tahiliani, Applied Materials Inc
Guoan Tai, Nanjing University of Aeronautics
Kohsei Takahashi, NIMS
Akash Talapatra, Virginia Tech
Khalil Tamersit, Université 8 Mai 1945
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Raunak Kumar Tamrakar, Bhilai Institute of Technology
Abu Bashar Mohammad Hamidul Tan, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Setsuhisa Tanabe, Kyoto University
Hisaaki Tanaka, Nagoya University
Lin Tang, Hunan University
Thanit Tangcharoen, Kasetsart University
Abdul Mateen Tantary, Islamic University of Science & Technology
Pedram Tavadze, West Virginia University
Yi Wei Daniel Tay, Nanyang Technological University
Ceren Tayran, Gazi University
Surachoke Thanapitak, Mahidol University
P. Thangadurai, Pondicherry University
Gunasekaran Thangavel, University of Technology & Applied Sciences
Ward Thompson, The University of Kansas
Prasit Thongbai, Khon Kaen University
Laxman Thoutam, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences
Kunal Tiwari, Catalonia Institute for Energy Research
Hanuma Reddu Tiyyagura, Rudolfovo Scientific & Technological Centre, Novo Mesto
Rosen Todorov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Emre Tokar, Gazi University Faculty of Dentistry
Kaoru Toko, University of Tsukuba
Juan Tong, Research Centre For EcoEnvironmental Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tsukasa Torimoto, Nagoya University
Lamjed Touil, Universite De Monastir
Anowar Tozri, Jouf University
Jens Trommer, Technische Universität Dresden
Alexey Trukhanov, SSPA Scientific & Practical Materials Research Centre of NAS of Belarus
Jung-Hui Tsai, National Kaohsiung Normal University
Chien-Yie Tsay, Feng Chia University
Wei-Tsu Tseng, IBM
Poonam Tsui, University of New Mexico
Filip Tuomisto, University of Helsinki
Gamal Turky, National Research Centre, Egypt
Jamal Uddin, Coppin State University
Hamid Ullah, University of Ulsan
Saviour A. Umoren, King Fahd University of Petroleum
Abhishek Upadhyay, X-Fab GmbH
Sethumathavan Vadivel, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Sudarsan Vadnala, Vellore Institute of Technology
Vinay Vakharia, Pandit Deendayal Energy University
Bharath Sreenivasulu Vakkalakula, National Institute of Technology Warangal
Sresta Valasa, NIT Warangal
Abbas Vali, University of Texas
Gabriel Vanko, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Petr Vanýsek, Northern Illinois University
Hamilton Varela, University of Sao Paulo
Nilesh J. Vasa, IIT - Madras
Nalluri Veeraiah, Acharya Nagarjuna University
K. Velavan, NIT Goa
R. Venkatesh, UGC-DAE CSR Low Temperature Laboratory
C. Venkateswaran, University of Madras
Shivam Verma, IIT Bhu
Andrei Vescan, RWTH Aachen University
Bertrand Vilquin, INSA Lyon
P. Vimala, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering
T. Vinod, Christ College
Ponnusamy Vinoth Kumar, Kaohsiung Medical University
Asya Viraneva, University of Plovdiv
Noolu Viswanath, Chonnam National University
Rodica Vladoiu, Ovidius University of Constanta
Ramesh Vobulapuram, RGMCET
Ramesh Kumar Vobulapuram, IIIT Sri City
A. Voitsekhovskii, Tomsk State University
Nils Von Den Driesch, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH
Yuri Vorobiev, CINVESTAV
Venkata Bhuvaneswari Vukkum, North Carolina State University
Rashmi Walvekar, Xiamen UniversityMalaysia
Jia-Wei Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yu Wang, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Yudong Wang, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Chuhong Wang, Johns Hopkins University
Guixin Wang, Sichuan University
Guizhen Wang, Hainan University
Lei Wang, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Maojun Wang, Peking University
Mingkui Wang, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
Shaoxi Wang, Northwestern Polytechnical University
Xianwei Wang, Henan Normal University
Xiaozhi Wang, Zhejiang University
Xinwei Wang, Iowa
Yan Wang, Tsinghua University
Yongguang Wang, Soochow University
Yu-Lin Wang, National Tsing Hua University
Yuhua Wang, Lanzhou University
Zeheng Wang, University of New South Wales
Zenglin Wang, Shaanxi Normal University
Zhijun Wang, Hebei University
Ahmed Wassel, National Reseach Center
Qingshuo Wei, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science
Chaoyang Wei, Chinese Acad. Sci.
Gang Wei, University of Bremen
Jin Wei, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Maxwell Wetherington, The Pennsylvania State University
Ralph White, University of South Carolina
Gregor Witte, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Hiu Yung Wong, San Jose State University
Deshen Wu, Argonne National Laboratory
Jiagang Wu, Sichuan University
Jiang Wu, Shanghai University of Electric Power
Meng-Chyi Wu, National Tsing Hua University
Mengqiang Wu, University of Electronic Science & Technology of China
Sean Wu, Lunghwa University of Science & Technology
Shengli Wu, Xi’An Jiaotong University
Dehua Xu, Sichuan University
Gaobo Xu, Institute of Microelectronics,Cas
Junli Xu, Northeastern University
Min Xu, Fudan University
Qinzhi Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xin Xu, University of Science & Technology of China
Xuhui Xu, Kunming University of Science & Technology
Yifei Xu, Intel Corp.
Yinsheng Xu, Wuhan University of Technology
Venkata Lakshmi Narayana K. Yadav, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University
Aniruddh Bahadur Yadav, Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College
Shivendra Yadav, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology
Tarun Yadav, Banaras Hindu University
Narendra Yadava, MMMUT
Mehmet Yağmurcukardeş, Izmir Institute of Technology
Hadi Yamauchi, The University of Queensland
Yusuke Yamauchi, The University of Queensland
Bangbo Yan, Western Kentucky University
Chang Yan, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Qiusheng Yan, Guangdong University of Technology
Shirun Yan, Fudan University
Takayuki Yanagida, Nara Institute of Science & Technology
C. Yang, South China University of Technology
Chao Yang, Guilin University of Technology
Dapeng Yang, Quanzhou Normal University
Haibo Yang, Shaanxi University of Science & Technology
Kesong Yang, University of California San Diego
Shengyi Yang, Beijing Institute of Technology
Su-Hua Yang, National Kaohsiung University of Science & Technology
Xu Yang, Shenyang Aerospace University
Yi-Lin Yang, National Kaohsiung Normal University
Yuguo Yang, Qilu University of Technology
Zhenhai Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
XZhiguo Xia, South China University of Technology
Minghan Xian, University of Florida
Rong Xiang, University of Tokyo
Guohua Xie, Wuhan University
Kui Xie, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fujian Institute of Research on The Structure of Matter
Linghai Xie, Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications
Peitao Xie, Qingdao University
Rongjun Xie, Xiamen University
Lei Yanhua, Shanghai Maritime University
Xiayin Yao, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhiqiang Yao, University of Jinan
Sedat Yasar, Inonu University
Sibel Yazar Aydoğan, Istanbul UniversityCerrahpasa
Xinyu Ye, Jiangxi University of Science & Technology
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Vijayakumar Yelsani, Anurag University
Jejoon Yeon, Corning Inc
Abdullah Yildiz, Yildirim Beyazit University
Huaxiang Yin, IMECAS
Liangjun Yin, University of Electronic Science & Technology of China
Sungmin Yoon, Kyung Hee Univ.
Tae-Sik Yoon, UNIST
Hongpeng You, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Arun Young, National United University
Sheng-Joue Young, National United University
Maheswar Yousefi, Northwestern University
Ramin Yousefi, Islamic Azad University
Dengguang Yu, University of Shanghai for Science & Technology
Jian Yu
Ruijin Yu, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University
Xue Yu, Kunming University of Science & Technology
Zeinab Yuan, Johns Hopkins University
Changzhou Yuan
Hua Yuan, Qingdao University
Ibrahim Yucedag, Duzce University
Hadi Teguh Yudistira, Institut Teknologi Sumatera
Ömer Yüksel, Selçuk University
Hilmi Yurdakul, Dumlupinar University
Pedram Zand, Wilfrid Laurier University
Zhigang Zang, Chongqing University
M. Zeshan, Government College University
Faisalabad
Jiwei Zhai, Tongji University
Yiqiang Zhan, Fudan University
Baoguo Zhang, Hebei University of Technology
Dongzhi Zhang, China University of Petroleum
Jian Zhang, Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications
Kailiang Zhang, Tianjin University of Technology
Li Zhang, Shanghai Second Polytechnic University
Liangliang Zhang, Changchun Institute of Optics Fine Mechanics & Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ruliang Zhang, Shandong University of Science & Technology
Shuye Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology
Wei Zhang, Xi’An Jiaotong University
Xiaohua Zhang, Taiyuan University of Technology
Xiaoming Zhang, Minzu University of China
Yifan Zhang, Chang Chun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yong Zhang, South China Normal University
Zhenyu Zhang, Dalian University of Technology
Zi-Hui Zhang, Hebei University of Technology
Jianzhang Zhao, Dalian University of Technology
Kishor Kumar Zhao, University At Buffalo
Lei Zhao, Baoji University of Arts & Sciences
Qingtai Zhao, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Zhiling Zhao, University of Maryland At College Park
Wen Zhenchao, National Institute for Materials Science
Dong-Guang Zheng, Ewha Womans University
Xuefeng Zheng, Xidian University
Xia Zhiguo, South China University of Technology
Xinhua Zhong, South China Agricultural University
Mu Zhongfei, Guangdong University of Technology
Changrong Zhou, Guilin University of Electronic Technology
Di Zhou, Xi’An Jiaotong University
Hong Zhou, Xidian University
Liang Zhou, Chang Chun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shengjun Zhou, Wuhan University
Ming-Gang Zhu, Central Iron & Steel Research Institute Group
Sheng Zhu, Shanxi University
Xinhua Zhu, Nanjing University
Xiaodong Zhuang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Weidong Zhuang, University of Science & Technology Beijing
Ahmad Sabirin Zoolfakar, Universiti Teknologi Mara
Peng Zuo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
E. Zych, University of Wroclaw , Shanghai Advanced Research Institute Chinese Academy of Sciences
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by Adrian Plummer, MPA, PMP, Director
Quite often as I prepare this quarterly piece with updates for the ECS community on our publications, I of course aim to be positive and uplifting in my messaging. After all, Interface is a for-members, by-members magazine where we celebrate the achievements, accolades, and milestones of the Society and its community members. But no matter how much I would like to shy away from the difficult conversations, it is always important to remember that in the scope of ethics we must do what is right; not necessarily what is easy or comfortable. Ethics and research integrity challenges have become an increasingly dark and concerning topic for scholarly publishers, peer reviewers, editors, and authors. Over years there has been a steady rise in the number of cases related to data and image manipulation, plagiarism, the growth of paper mills that submit fabricated or manipulated articles, and even editorial misconduct. Publishers are constantly moving forward in a valiant effort to build systems and tools that can better detect publishing misconduct, and to close the vulnerability gaps in their respective journals. Editorial teams are finding it difficult to balance their primary goal of publishing quality rigorously peer-reviewed scientific content while investigating suspicions of misconduct and navigating through the murky experience of misconduct allegations when they arise.
In April 2021 the well-known database Retraction Watch shared that their database of retracted articles had grown to 25,000. One could easily dismiss this number when it is compared to the millions of scholarly articles that are published each year. However, since April 2021 this figure has grown to over 41,000; a 64% increase in just over two years.
While the growth of this number is alarming and certainly concerning for those who have counted themselves members of the scientific community for decades, as well as potentially disheartening for student and early-career community members who are just learning to navigate the world of scholarly publishing, it is definitely not hopeless. The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of our community members, scholarly authors, peer reviewers, and publishers are invested in protecting, promoting, and advancing ethically curated and published scholarly content. And, just like the basic science we have grown to understand about the human body, the small percentage of diseased content that has infected the scholarly publishing space with manipulative tactics and misconduct is no comparison to the number of people who aim to protect it, who wish to see the body of scientific literature thrive and continue to disseminate trustworthy research and data. This majority will best serve the community by activating as T-cells to protect the scientific body from infection.
The ECS Publications leadership and staff are working closely with our partner IOP to ensure that our family of journals has the best tools available to protect the integrity of our journals and to provide our readers and authors with the confidence that we remain focused and unwaveringly committed to our vision. The ECS vision is to be recognized as the steward of electrochemical and solid state science and technology and accelerate scientific discovery and innovation, leading the community as the advocate, guardian, and facilitator of our technical domain. We realize this vision by being the change we wish to see in the community, and by remaining committed to the highest ethical standards the society has carried for over 120 years.
ECS, along with our publishing partner IOP, is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We encourage you to read some of the guidelines published by COPE to sharpen your skills in not only knowing what kind of problematic matters can arise, but also in how they should be managed, and how you may be able to support the Society as a peer reviewer in combatting these challenges.
Paul Kenis Technical Editor of JES’s Electrochemical Engineering topical interest area for the term July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2025
Andrew Hillier Associate Editor of JES’s Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry, Electrocatalysis, and Photoelectrochemistry topical interest area for the term June 1, 2023 –May 31, 2026
Won Bin Im Technical Editor for JSS’s Luminescence and Display Materials, Devices, and Processing topical interest area for the October 1, 2023 –September 30, 2023
The ECS Board of Directors held its spring gathering on Thursday, June 1, in conjunction with the 243rd ECS Meeting, which took place in Boston, May 26–June 2, 2023. ECS President Turgut Gür called the board to order and kicked off the meeting by thanking members for their continued leadership, support, and dedication.
ECS Secretary Marca Doeff then presented the minutes from the previous board meeting and had the pleasure of announcing the newly elected board members: Qiliang Li, Electronics and Photonics Division Chair; Shelley Minteer, Organic and Biological Electrochemistry Division Chair; Katherine Ayers, Energy Technology Division Chair; and Stephen Paddison, Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry Division Chair. Their two-year terms began immediately following the board meeting in Boston and will end in May 2025. Congratulations and best of luck to our newly elected board members!
Next Marca asked the board to approve a long list of standing committee appointments, including E. J. Taylor as the new Chair of the Individual Membership Committee, and more than two dozen other critical appointments. As with the ECS Division Chairs, these appointments began immediately following the 243rd ECS Meeting. Following the Secretary’s report, ECS Treasurer Elizabeth (Lisa) Podlaha-Murphy presented the final audited figures for the previous year, with the board approving the motion to accept the 2022 financial audit. In summary, the value of the Society’s investment portfolio decreased significantly in 2022, in line with last year’s challenging economic climate. However, strong attendance at the 242nd ECS Meeting in Atlanta and continued growth of our publication-related revenue helped provide the funds to support the Society’s operations without withdrawing from our portfolio, thus maximizing our potential for recovery and growth when the market rebounds.
Institutional Engagement Committee Chair Alex Peroff reported next, noting that institutional membership is now at an all-time high with 51 institutional members. In addition, the exhibition floor was completely sold out for the 243rd ECS Meeting, as it was for the 242nd ECS Meeting, further highlighting our growth in this area and the increasingly important role industry plays in the life and work of the Society.
One of the big stories from the recent board meeting was the record number of new ECS student chapters launched. The global reach of these new chapters is particularly encouraging. The board approved eight new student chapters, almost half of which are outside the United States:
• Chulalongkorn University – Bangkok, Thailand
• Columbia University – NY, US
• KHS Group (Korea, Hanyang, and Sogang Universities) –Seoul, Korea
• New York University – NY, US
• University of Mississippi – MS, US
• Princeton University – NJ, US
• Seoul National University – Seoul, Korea
• University of Michigan – MI, US
With these additions, ECS now has more than 130 student chapters worldwide!
The meeting concluded with reports by Education Chair Alice Suroviec, Honors and Awards Chair Shelley Minteer, and Nominating Committee Chair Eric Wachsman, who received approval for the slate of outstanding candidates for the 2024 ECS officer election.
Candidate for Office of President for a one-year term beginning May 2024:
• Colm O’Dwyer – Electronics and Photonics Division (currently serving as ECS’s Vice President)
Candidates for Office of Vice President for a three-year term beginning May 2024:
• Y. Shirley Meng – Battery Division
• Robert F. Savinell – Industrial Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Engineering Division
Candidates for Office of Secretary for a four-year term beginning May 2024:
• Gessie Brisard – Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry Division
• Jessica Koehne – Sensor Division
Congratulations and best of luck to all the 2024 candidates! Last, a motion to close the meeting was made, seconded, and unanimously approved. The board reconvenes at the 244th ECS Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden, on October 12, 2023.
Battery
Brett Lucht, Chair
University of Rhode Island
Jie Xiao, Vice Chair
Jagjit Nanda, Secretary
Xiaolin Li, Treasurer
Doron Aurbach, Journals Editorial Board Representative
Corrosion
Dev Chidambaram, Chair
University of Nevada, Reno
Eiji Tada, Vice Chair
Rebecca Schaller, Secretary/Treasurer
Gerald Frankel, Journals Editorial Board Representative
Dielectric Science and Technology
Uroš Cvelbar, Chair
Jožef Stefan Institute
Sreeran Vaddiraju, Vice Chair
Zhi David Chen, Secretary
Thorsten Lill, Treasurer
Peter Mascher, Journals Editorial Board Representative
Electrodeposition
Natasa Vasiljevic, Chair University of Bristol
Luca Magagnin, Vice Chair
Andreas Bund, Secretary
Antoine Allanore, Treasurer
Takayuki Homma, Journals Editorial Board Representative
Electronics and Photonics
Qiliang Li, Chair
George Mason University
Vidhya Chakrapani, Vice Chair
Zia Karim, Second Vice Chair
Helmut Baumgart, Secretary
Travis Anderson, Treasurer
Fan Ren, Journals Editorial Board Representative
Jennifer Bardwell, Journals Editorial Board Representative
Energy Technology
Katherine Ayers, Chair
Nel Hydrogen
Minhua Shao, Vice Chair
Hui Xu, Secretary
Iryna Zenyuk, Treasurer
Xiao-Dong Zhou, Journals Editorial Board Representative
High-Temperature Energy, Materials, and Processes
Sean R. Bishop, Chair Sandia National Laboratories
Cortney Kreller, Senior Vice Chair
Xingbo Liu, Junior Vice Chair
Teruhisa Horita, Secretary/Treasurer
Xiao-Dong Zhou, Journals Editorial Board Representative
Industrial Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Engineering
Maria Inman, Chair
Faraday Technology, Inc.
Paul Kenis, Vice Chair
Elizabeth Biddinger, Secretary/Treasurer
John Harb, Journals Editorial Board Representative
Luminescence and Display Materials
Rong-Jun Xie, Chair
Xiamen University
Eugeniusz Zych, Vice Chair
TBD, Secretary/Treasurer
Kailash Mishra, Journals Editorial Board Representative
Nanocarbons
Jeff L. Blackburn, Chair National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Ardemis Boghossian, Vice Chair
Yan Li, Secretary
Hiroshi Imahori, Treasurer
Francis D’Souza, Journals Editorial Board Representative
Organic and Biological Electrochemistry
Shelley Minteer, Chair
University of Utah
Jeffrey Halpern, First Vice Chair
Sabine Kuss, Second Vice Chair
Ariel Furst, Secretary/Treasurer
Janine Mauzeroll, Journals Editorial Board Representative
Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry
Stephen Paddison, Chair
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Anne Co, Vice Chair
Svitlana Pylypenko, Secretary
Iwona Rutkowska, Treasurer
David Cliffel, Journals Editorial Board Representative
Sensor
Larry Nagahara, Chair Johns Hopkins University
Praveen Kumar Sekhar, Vice Chair
Dong-Joo Kim, Secretary
Leyla Soleymani, Treasurer
Ajit Khosla, Journals Editorial Board Representative
At the 243rd ECS Meeting in Boston this spring, the Energy Technology Division (ETD) held its annual business luncheon and introduced recent division award winners. The Executive Committee welcomed new officers and recognized William (Bill) Mustain, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of South Carolina, for his term as ETD Chair. Prof. Mustain saw the division through our first live meetings since the challenges of COVID-19. He successfully and significantly streamlined the ETD symposium planning process, making it possible for division meetings to focus on other business, which before was rushed due to the time dedicated to symposia. At the same time, Prof. Mustain served on the Membership Committee and chaired the committee when ECS granted student members full voting rights, an important step in the Society’s long-term health. His service to ETD and ECS is greatly appreciated.
The new officers who were introduced at the luncheon will serve two-year terms from summer 2023 to 2025. Dr. Kathy Ayers, Vice President of Research and Development at Nel Hydrogen, is the division’s new Chair. Incoming Vice Chair is Prof. Minhua Shao, Head and Chaired Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Dr. Hui Xu, Chief Technology Officer at Envision
Energy, is incoming Secretary, and the newly elected Treasurer is Prof. Iryna Zenyuk, Associate Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. We welcome the new ETD Executive Committee to their roles.
Before handing off the ETD Chair role, Prof. Mustain recognized four award winners. The Graduate Student Award Sponsored by BioLogic went to Dr. Yirui Zhang of Stanford University for her work in Li-ion batteries and electrocatalysis. The Supramaniam Srinivasan Young Investigator Award was presented to Prof. Kelsey Stoerzinger, formerly of Oregon State University and newly Associate Professor at University of Minnesota, for her work in the transformation of molecules to fuels. Finally, the ETD Research Award was presented to Dr. Adam Weber of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, for his work in multiscale modeling. Dr. Kathy Ayers received the inaugural Walter van Schalkwijk Award in Sustainable Energy Technology at the spring luncheon (although she presented the award talk virtually at the 242nd ECS Meeting).
Let’s make sure we continue to recognize our colleagues for these awards by nominating them and writing letters. Nominations for the ETD Research Award, Graduate Student Award Sponsored by BioLogic, and Supramaniam Srinivasan Young Investigator Award are due on June 15 each year!
The K01 Organic and Biological Electrochemistry symposium took place as part of the 243rd ECS Meeting. Prominent experts in the field from around the world came together to participate for two days in “Organic and Biological Electroanalytical Chemistry: In Memory of Petr Zuman.” The ECS OBE Division and symposium organizers extend their sincere appreciation to all the authors for their valuable contributions.
The opening ceremony began with Prof. James Rusling from the University of Connecticut presenting a poignant tribute recognizing the profound impact on the field of Organic Electrochemistry by the late Prof. Petr Zuman of Clarkson University. Prof. Rusling was joined by esteemed symposium lead organizers, Prof. Sadagopan Krishnan from Oklahoma State University, and Prof. Jiri Ludvik from the Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The second day’s sessions were co-chaired by Prof. Shelley Minteer from the University of Utah and Prof. Charuksha Walgama from the University of Houston–Clear Lake.
(From left to right): Prof. Emanuela Silvana Andreescu, Clarkson University, and symposium organizers Prof. Jiri Lukvik, Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, and Prof. Sadagopan Krishnan, Oklahoma State University, participate in the Z01 “Organic and Biological Electroanalytical Chemistry: In Memory of Petr Zuman” seminar at the 243rd ECS Meeting.
Chair
Mani Manivannan, Global Pragmatic Materials
Qiliang Li, George Mason University
Vice Chair
Vidhya Chakrapani, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2nd Vice Chair
Zia Karim, Yield Engineering Systems
Secretary
Helmut Baumgart, Old Dominion University
Treasurer
Erica Douglas, Sandia National Laboratories
Members at Large
Travis J. Anderson, US Naval Research Laboratory
D. Noel Buckley, University of Limerick
Yu Cao, Fast Power, Inc.
Yu Lun Chueh, National Tsing Hua University
Stefan De Gendt, IMEC
M. Jamal Deen, McMaster University
Jennifer Hite, US Naval Research Laboratory
Andrew M. Hoff, University of South Florida
Hiroshi Iwai, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Hemanth Jagannathan, IBM Corporation Research Center
Soohwan Jang, Dankook University
Daisuko Kiriya, The University of Tokyo
Yue Kuo, Texas A&M University
Qizhi Liu, Global Foundries, Inc.
Robert Lynch, University of Limerick
Junichi Murota, Tohoku University
Colm O’Dwyer, University College Cork
Takahito Ono, Tohoku University
Mark E. Overberg, Sandia National Laboratories
Fred Roozeboom, Universiteit Twente
Tadatomo Suga, Meisei University
Yu-Lin Wang, National Tsing Hua University
Chair
Katherine E. Ayers, Nel Hydrogen
Vice Chair
Minhua Shao, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Secretary
Hui Xu, Envision Energy USA
Treasurer
Iryna Zenyuk, University of California, Irvine
Members at Large
Christopher Arges, Pennsylvania State University
Plamen Atanassov, University of California, Irvine
Scott Calabrese Barton, Michigan State University
Rod Borup, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Nemanja Danilovic, Electric Hydrogen
Steven Decaluwe, Colorado School of Mines
Vito Di Noto, Università degli Studi di Padova
Huyen Dinh, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
James Fenton, University of Central Florida
Thomas Fuller, Georgia Institute of Technology
Andrew Herring, Colorado School of Mines
Paul Kenis, University of Illinois
Ahmet Kusoglu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sanjeev Mukerjee, Northeastern University
Sri Narayan, University of Southern California
Peter Pintauro, Vanderbilt University
Bryan Pivovar, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Krishnan Rajeshwar, University of Texas at Arlington
Cynthia Rice, Plug Power, Inc.
Jacob Spendelow, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jean St-Pierre, Cummins Technical Center
Vaidynathan Ravi Subramanian, University of Nevada, Reno
Adam Weber, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
John Weidner, University of Cincinnati
Gang Wu, University at Buffalo
Nianqiang Nick Wu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Thomas Zawodzinski, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Iryna Zenyuk, University of California, Irvine
Chair
Shelley Minteer, University of Utah
Vice Chair
Jeffrey Halpern, University of New Hampshire
2nd Vice Chair
Sabine Kuss, University of Manitoba
Secretary/Treasurer
Ariel Furst, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Members at Large
Mahito Atobe, Yokohama University
Mekki Bayachou, Cleveland State University
James Burgess, United States Army Research Office
Graham Cheek, United States Naval Academy
Dave Cliffel, Vanderbilt University
Robert Francke, Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse
Carlos Frontana-Vazquez, CIDETEQ
Shinsuke Inagi, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Matt Graaf, Corteva Agriscience
Binbin Huang, Hunan University
Jiri Ludvik, J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry
Flavio Maran, Università degli Studi di Padova
Kevin Moeller, Washington University, St. Louis
Julie Renner, Case Western Reserve University
James Rusling, University of Connecticut
Lior Sepunaru, University of California, Santa Barbara
Charuksha Walgama, University of Houston-Clear Lake
Hai-Chao Xu, Xiamen University
Chair
Stephen J. Paddison, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Vice Chair
Anne Co, Ohio State University
Secretary
Svitlana Pylypenko, Colorado School of Mines
Treasurer
Iwona Rutkowska, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Members at Large
Robbyn Anand, Iowa State University
Plamen B. Atanassov, University of California, Irvine
D. Noel Buckley, University of Limerick
Abdoulaye Djire, Texas A&M University
Alanah Fitch, Loyola University
Burcu Gurkan, Case Western Reserve University
David Hickey, Michigan State University
Yasushi Katayama, Keio University
Pawel J. Kulesza, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Johna Leddy, University of Iowa
Robert Mantz, United States Army Research Office
Hang Ren, University of Texas, Austin
Joaquin Rodriguez López, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Alice Suroviec, Berry College
Greg Swain, Michigan State University
Paul Trulove, United States Naval Academy
Petr Vanysek, Northern Illinois University
Valentine Vullev, University of California, Riverside
Yingjie Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jennifer Tarantino joined ECS in June as a Program Specialist in the Community Engagement Department. In this role, she supports community engagement programs, predominantly ECS Sections and Student Chapters, by managing engagement and retention activities and increasing outreach. Jennifer holds a BA in Communications from Rutgers and has a wealth of experience in project management. She said, “with a background in communication, I am passionate about disseminating knowledge, providing opportunities, and making an impact.”
“I am pleased to welcome Jennifer to the Community Engagement Department. She joins us after working at Educational Testing Services (ETS) for the last several years. I’m excited for her to bring her administrative, program, and constituent services experiences
to the team,” said Shannon Reed, ECS Director of Community Engagement. In total, Jennifer brings more than eleven years of experience working with nonprofits, researchers, and academics. During the early part of her career at ETS, she led a customer service team responsible for customer outreach and scoring services. In her most recent role as a Program Administrator for the Advanced Placement Program, she provided end-to-end program management, including administrative support and data analysis, concentrating on student advocacy and accessibility. Her responsibilities also included driving company growth and process engineering. In addition, she led a team that launched a new proprietary CRM system for resolving scoring issues for students affected by test-day incidents.
Outside the office, Jennifer enjoys cooking and spending time with her daughter, Erin, and her dog, Henry.
Next Generation Electrochemistry (NGenE) 2023, a summer workshop on the frontiers of research in electrochemical science, was held at the University of Illinois Chicago from June 5th to 9th, 2023. NGenE convened a cohort of 40 experienced graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to carry out discussions around the theme “Electrify All of the Things.” As the world is witnessing a shift toward sustainable and clean energy sources, it has become increasingly apparent that cheap electricity from renewable sources is on the cusp of powering our society. To facilitate this transition and unlock its full potential, NGenE emphasized the pivotal role of electrochemistry, the science of using electricity to induce chemical change, to drive progress in energy storage, enable vital chemical processes, and promote environmental sustainability. The 2023 edition was sponsored by The Electrochemical Society. The Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the Sloan Foundation financially supported the event.
A group of eight researchers, widely recognized for their significant contributions to the field, delivered comprehensive lectures that addressed critical research questions and provided a roadmap for the future of electrochemistry. These presentations not only explored fundamental inquiries but also challenged the next generation of scientists to spearhead advancements in the discipline and to redefine the boundaries of their work. In addition to the lectures, NGenE 2023 showcased cutting-edge capabilities within electrochemical science,
such as the integration of electrochemistry with transmission electron microscopy. A prominent aspect of the workshop was a visit to Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), which allowed participants to tour state-of-the-art analytical laboratories and large-scale facilities specifically tailored to electrochemical research, from basic discovery to advanced manufacturing.
Collaboration played a central role in NGenE 2023, with participants challenged to identify knowledge gaps within electrochemical research and propose pioneering solutions. The culmination of this collaborative effort took the form of pitch presentations on the final day, which showcased the ingenuity and teamwork of the attendees, fostering creativity and critical thinking in addressing the challenges faced by the field. With it, the workshop also sought to enhance communication, leadership, and teamwork abilities. Lastly, NGenE 2023 facilitated a discussion on career trajectories in electrochemical science, drawing from the experiences of our alums.
Now in its eighth year, NGenE has emerged as a highly successful workshop, propelling electrochemical science toward sustainable energy solutions and transformation of the chemical industry. By assembling exceptional talent, promoting groundbreaking research, facilitating immersive experiences, and nurturing essential skills, NGenE empowers the next generation of scientists to contribute to a cleaner and greener future through the transformative potential of electrochemistry.
by Kevin Beaver and Rohit Jadhav
The 1st International Workshop of the Bioelectrochemical Society was hosted by The University of Utah from June 14 to 16, 2023 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The workshop was organized and chaired by Prof. Shelley D. Minteer (Chair of the Organic and Biological Electrochemistry Division of ECS) and sponsored by The
Electrochemical Society (ECS). It was additionally sponsored by Elsevier, PINE Research, BASi Research Products, and the NSF Center for Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry (CSOE). The discussionbased international workshop provided a platform for researchers and experts working on different aspects of bioelectrochemical research—
including biosensors, electroporation, bioelectroanalysis, microbial electrochemistry including bioelectrochemical systems and microbial fuel cells, bio-solar fuel cells, and enzymatic electrochemistry including electrosynthesis and biofuel cells, neuroelectrochemistry, and wearable and implantable bioelectronics—to share and discuss their findings.
The workshop attracted over 75 attendees, including young academic and industrial researchers as well as experts in different fields. The highlights of the three-day program were presentations by three plenary speakers and seven keynote speakers. In her plenary talk, Prof. Dianne K. Newman, a microbiologist from Caltech, inaugurated the meeting with her findings on electron transfer by natural redox shuttles in bacteria. Prof. Paul W. Bohn of the University of Notre Dame gave a plenary talk on his current research on high-throughput, nanoscale spectroelectrochemical analysis techniques for the analysis of orientationally ordered microbial cells. Finally, Prof. Shana Kelley discussed her research on electrochemical monitoring of biomarkers with molecular pendulum sensors, while representing Northwestern University and the Chan Zuckerburg Biohub-Chicago. As a keynote speaker, Prof. Christian Amatore, Emeritus Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, discussed dual-channel nanoelectrochemical sensors and their potential for intracellular sensing. Further, Prof. Sadagopan Krishnan of Oklahoma State University showed the usefulness of electrochemistry in meat science. Prof. Wolfgang Schuhmann of Ruhr-Universität Bochum explained the importance of stable redox polymers for long-term implantable sensors. Profs. Cesar Torres (Arizona State University) and Matteo Grattieri (Università degli Studi di Bari) gave their keynotes on exciting advances in microbial electrochemistry. On the final day, Prof. Lital Alfonta (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) presented her recent findings on bioelectrocatalytic potential of P450 variant for organic electrosynthesis. In the last keynote, Prof. Yangguang Ou of University of Vermont gave an update on carbon fiber microelectrode surface modification.
The plenary and keynote speakers were joined by almost 40 additional oral presentations and 14 posters. Three poster prizes were awarded to graduate students Alexandra Schmeltzer and Miharu Koh and Prof. Joowon Park, all of the University of Utah. In their free time, attendees enjoyed outdoor recreation in the greater Salt Lake City area, and they also relaxed with an informal karaoke night.
The 1st International Workshop of the Bioelectrochemical Society provided a platform for young academic and industrial researchers to share and exchange their views with experts from various bioelectrochemical research fields. Stay tuned for details regarding the next international event hosted by BES, which will take place in Spain during summer 2024.
The Electrochemical Society celebrates open-access publishing and the impact it has on the advancement of scientific discovery. By removing barriers to scholarly research through open access we can be champions in the acceleration of scientific advancement and inspire the next generation of global researchers.
Join ECS in celebrating Open Access Week 2023 from October 23 to 29, where we open up our entire digital library to the globe, making all of our subscription-based content available to the scientific community free of charge.
The winter issue of Interface is guest edited by the Sensor Division's Praveen Sekhar. It will feature updates on recent advances and hot topics in sensor technology by leading researchers, an article on empowering the Navajo community through
electrochemistry research by Thiagarajan Soundappan, sensors for smart agriculture by Sensor Division Fellow Shekhar Bhansali, and highlights from the first two years of ECS Sensors Plus
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The Center for Synthetic Organic Chemistry, based at the University of Utah under the direction of ECS Fellow Dr. Shelley Minteer, hosts a YouTube channel that has a series entitled “Abruna Electrochemistry Crash Course.” Over a series of videos, Dr. Hector Abruna, ECS Fellow and member of the Center, offers a fundamentals of electrochemistry webinar. The Center for Synthetic Organic Chemistry has
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the mission to make synthetic organic electrochemistry mainstream through the invention of enabling, green, safe, and economic new reactions, the demystification of fundamental electrochemical reactivity, vibrant partnerships with industry, education of a diverse set of scientists and engineers, and community-wide education and outreach.
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Electronics Tutorials is exactly what the name of the website promises. It is a large collection of tutorials for both the student and the researcher. The topics range from Introduction to AC Circuit Theory to Sequential Logic. Many of the tutorials are also videos for students to follow along.
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Alice Suroviec is Professor of Bioanalytical Chemistry and Dean of the College of Mathematical and Natural Sciences at Berry College. She earned a BS in Chemistry from Allegheny College in 2000. She received her PhD from Virginia Tech in 2005 under the direction of Dr.
Mark R. Anderson. Her research focuses on enzymatically modified electrodes for use as biosensors. She is currently Associate Editor of the PAE Technical Division for the Journal of the Electrochemical Society. She is always looking for new app/ podcast/website suggestions, so feel free to contact her.
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Advanced Automotive Battery Conference US (AABC)
December 5-8 l SAN DIEGO, CA, USA
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In addition to ECS biannual meetings and ECS satellite conferences, the Society, its divisions, and its sections sponsor meetings and symposia of interest to the technical audience ECS serves. The following is a partial list of upcoming sponsored meetings. For a list of all sponsored meetings, visit the ECS website.
2023
StorageX International Symposium Series
Ongoing Fridays in 2023 | Virtual Lectures
Stanford University
2023 International Conference on Green Electrochemical Technologies & 2023 Annual Meeting of the Electrochemical Society of Taiwan (2023 ICGET-Tw)
October 26–28, 2023 | Taipei City, Taiwan
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
2023 Joint Symposium on Molten Salts
November 12–16, 2023 | Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto Garden Palace
2025
19th International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC-IXX)
July 13–18, 2025 | Stockholm, Sweden
The Brewery Conference Center
For information on the benefits of ECS meeting sponsorship (including publishing sponsored meetings’ proceedings volumes) or to request ECS sponsorship for your technical event, contact ecs@electrochem.org.
The following students received 2023 ECS Summer Fellowships, which support students from June through August pursuing work of interest to the Society. Support is provided by the Colin Garfield Fink Fellowship for postgraduate researchers/engineers and ECS Summer Fellowships for students between the MS and PhD. To qualify, the recipients must be ECS members enrolled in a college or university. At the end of the award period, recipients submit a report on their fellowship project for publication in The Electrochemical Society Interface
Ruocun (John) Wang received the 2023 Colin Garfield Fink Fellowship for a postdoctoral research project titled “Investigating Simultaneous Hydrogen Production and Storage in MXenes.” He received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from North Carolina State University in 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Veronica Augustyn. He completed a postdoctorate with Prof. Augustyn, then moved to the A. J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute at Drexel University in January 2021 to pursue postdoctoral research with Dr. Yury Gogotsi. Dr. Wang received the ECS Battery Division Student Slam 3 Best Paper Award in 2019, and a Cotswold Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2022. He served as Secretary for the ECS Research Triangle Student Chapter in 2018. Dr. Wang is the author of 16 articles, and has an h-index of 9.
Alexander H. Quinn will pursue his project, “Exploring the Performance-limiting Factors of the Reversible Bicarbonate-formate Redox Couple,” with support from the 2023 Edward G. Weston Fellowship. He is a PhD student in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the supervision of Prof. Fikile R. Brushett Alexander completed his BS in Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University in 2018. His past internship positions include the 2019 Vehicle Electrification Internship at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory; 2018 Safe High-Power Batteries Internship at NASA’s Johnson Space Center; and 2017 Propellant Development Intern at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. Alexander received a 2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and was named the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s MIT University Center of Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM) Scholar, as well as a 2018 Outstanding Achievement Award from NASA’s Johnson Space Center. He has published seven articles (three as first author), and has an h-index of 5.
Sasha Elena Alden’s Richards Fellowship is titled: “Combining High-throughput Biology and Electrochemistry by Screening Electrocatalytic Proteins Prepared via Directed Evolution with the Array Microcell Method (AMCM).” She is a fifth-year PhD student in the Chemistry Department at Texas A&M University under the supervision of Prof. Lane A. Baker. After completing a BS in Chemistry at Western Washington University (WWU) in 2018, Sasha
studied at Indiana University, then moved with her principal investigator to Texas A&M in January of 2022. She received a 2020 Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry (SEAC) Student Travel Award, and a 2017 WWU Verna Alexander Price Scholarship for Academic Merit and Continuation in Chemistry. Sasha also worked with Dr. Nickolay Lavrik at Oakridge National Laboratory in the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences. A committee member of the SEAC student group since 2020, Sasha served as Secretary of the ECS Indiana University Student Chapter from 2019 to 2020. The author of four publications with an h-index of 4, she also wrote a chapter for the 3rd edition of Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy.
Kevin Beaver will research “Determining Photo-enhanced Bioelectrocatalytic Activity in the Purple Bacteria Rhodobacter capsulatus” with support from the F. M. Becket Fellowship. He is a PhD student in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah (U of U) under the supervision of Prof. Shelley D. Minteer. In 2019, he completed a BS in Environmental Science and a BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Lebanon Valley College. Kevin received an NSF-REU (National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates) Fellowship to study under Prof. Joseph J. Kieber at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2017; a second NSF-REU Fellowship to study under Prof. Minteer at U of U in 2018; and the William W. Epstein Fellowship to continue studies at U of U in 2019. Kevin served as a Student Ambassador at the 241st ECS Meeting in Vancouver in May 2022. He is the author of 12 articles with an h-index of 7.
Kyle Matthews will research “MXenes as Electrodes in High-Power Zinc Batteries” with support from the H. H. Uhlig Fellowship. He is a PhD candidate in the A. J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University. Kyle received his BS in Materials Science and Engineering from Drexel in June 2020. Working under Dr. Yury Gogotsi since August 2020, his research has focused on the synthesis, processing, and applications of MXenes (specifically for use in the energy sector), with his peer-reviewed publications including papers on all three aspects. Kyle received the Koerner Family Fellowship in February 2022, and the Drexel University Outstanding Mentorship Award in June 2023. Kyle served as a student ambassador at the 243rd ECS Meeting in Boston. He is the author of more than 10 publications (h-index 4) and has one patent pending.
Applications for the 2024 ECS Summer Fellowships and Colin Garfield Fink Fellowship opened on September 15, 2023. The application deadline is January 15, 2024. Learn more about application requirements and process at the respective award websites.
The Society thanks the 2023 Summer Fellowship Subcommittee members:
• Samantha Gateman, Subcommittee Chair, Western University, Canada
• Oumaima Gharbi, Sorbonne Université, France
• Junsoon Han, Sorbonne Université, France
• Joey Kish, McMaster University, Canada
• Peter Mascher, McMaster University, Canada
• Patrik Schmutz, Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt, Switzerland
• Kalpathy B. Sundaram, University of Central Florida, US
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It is with deep sadness that The Electrochemical Society (ECS) announces the passing of our colleague and friend, Nobel laureate John B. Goodenough, on June 25, 2023. Throughout his career, John was a beloved member of the ECS community as a member, author, fellow, awardee, editor, meeting participant and organizer, and more.
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On behalf of the entire ECS community, I extend our deepest condolences on the passing of our esteemed member, John Goodenough,” said Gerardine Botte, ECS President. “His receiving the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (with fellow ECS members M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino) ‘for the development of lithium-ion batteries,ʼ was fitting recognition for the truly groundbreaking advancements this pioneer made for our field and for the whole of humanity. His research is the enabling
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science upon which the solutions to the grand challenges facing the planet—renewable energy, clean transportation, communications, to name but a few—will be based.”
“At The Electrochemistry Society, we knew not just John Goodenough, the great scientist; we also knew the great man. It has been said that ‘Death ends a life, not a relationship.ʼ John lives on through the gift of his great discoveries—and through the generations of young scientists he taught, mentored, and promoted. His ECS publications will inspire generations to come,” said Christopher Jannuzzi, ECS Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer.
John shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of the lithium-ion battery with M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino. The Royal Swedish Academy of Scienceʼs
Scientific Background on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019” cites Johnʼs JES article, “Phospho-Olivines as Positive-Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Lithium Batteries,” as being particularly critical to the batteryʼs development. John’s publications with ECS are collected in 2019 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry
In an ECS Masters Interview at the ECS PRiME 2016 Meeting, John disclosed that as a child, he had dyslexia and could not read like others his age. He recounted leaving home at the age of 12 for an affluent boarding school as a struggling scholarship student. Most importantly, he described the life events that led him on the path of science and discovery, as well as the individuals who supported and guided him along the way.
The winter 2019 issue of Interface, a special issue in celebration of John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino winning the 2019 Nobel Price in Chemistry.
John was born to American parents in Jena, Germany, in 1922. After studying mathematics at Yale University, he served during the Second World War as a meteorologist in the US Army. He completed a PhD in Physics at the University of Chicago in 1952. While at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory from 1952 to 1976, he developed the SAGE air defense computer’s memory cores—the first random access memory (RAM). In 1976, he joined Oxford University in the United Kingdom as a professor and head of the Inorganic Chemistry Lab. There, in 1980, John improved on the first lithium-ion battery developed by M. Stanley Whittingham in 1976. Using a cathode of cobalt oxide, which, at a molecular level, has spaces that can house lithium ions, John produced a battery with a higher voltage than earlier batteries.
From 1986 until his death, he was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering. He held the Virginia H. Cockrell Centennial Chair of Engineering and continued working on lithium-ion breakthrough technology, determined to make the batteries stronger, cheaper, and safer, and the world less dependent on fossil fuels.
During his life, John was honored as a member of the US National Academies of Science and Engineering, and foreign member of the Royal Society, UK, and the National Societies of France, Spain, and India. Among the many awards John’s research garnered, he received the ECS Olin Palladium Award (1999), Japan Prize (2001), the Presidential Enrico Fermi Award (2009), the National Medal of Science (2012), the Stark Draper Prize of the National Academy of Engineering (2014), and the UK Royal Society’s Copley Medal (2019). He is among the 2019 Class of Highly Cited Researchers. In 2008, The United Kingdom’s Royal Society of Chemistry created the John B. Goodenough Award which recognizes exceptional and sustained contributions to the area of materials chemistry.
When asked in the Masters Interview about the dissemination of scientific content, John shared his belief that scholarly societies are essentially in the business of fostering partnerships to serve the community at large. He emphasized the role of societies in creating space to convene the community to further scientific advancement.
John made some 45 ECS biannual meeting presentations between 1984 and 2019. Throughout his career, his articles appeared in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society, ECS Transactions, and Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters John was awarded Honorary Membership in 2013 and recognized as a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society in 2016. In the spirit of John’s beliefs about the role of scholarly societies, the JES and
JSS editorial teams came together to publish a focus issue that comprised 80+ select invited papers to celebrate and honor John’s life, legacy, and contributions as a beloved professor and longtime ECS member. From Fundamentals to Next-Generation Technology –JES/JSS Focus Issue In Honor of John Goodenough: A Centenarian Milestone appeared two months before John’s 100th birthday.
ECS created the John B. Goodenough Award of The Electrochemical Society in 2022 to honor John’s unprecedented years of service to the scientific community which inspire us all The first scholar to receive the award was Professor Arumugam Manthiram, ECS Fellow and Lifetime Member, Johnʼs close collaborator since 1985, who delivered John’s 2019 Chemistry Nobel Prize Lecture.
In a JES Editor’s Choice article, Prof. Manthiram described Johnʼs unique personality and humanity—that exceptional character which so endeared him to the ECS community. “He always has a purpose. He is thoughtful and curious. He is a good listener with love and respect for everyone. He is humble, and always looks for learning from others, including any student, even at this age… He has a high moral standard. His philosophy is ‘always be honest about what you do and what you say, and leave the rest to the Lord.’ He is a role model to everyone not only in science, but also in our daily life. He is inspirational to everyone.”
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His research is the enabling science upon which the solutions to the grand challenges facing the planet—renewable energy, clean transportation, communications, to name but a few—will be based.”
— Gerardine Botte, ECS President
ECS Fellow Yury Gogotsi and ECS Fellow and immediate past president Eric Wachsman were inducted into the 2022 Class of the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellows at the NAI Annual Meeting June 25 to 27, 2023 in Washington, DC. Election as an Academy Fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.
The NAI Fellows Program was established in 2012 to highlight academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society. “This year’s class of NAI Fellows represents a truly outstanding caliber of inventors. Each of these individuals have made significant impact through their work and are highly regarded in their respective fields,” said Dr. Paul R. Sanberg, President of the NAI. “The breadth and scope of their inventions is truly staggering. I am excited to see their creativity continue to define a new era of science and technology in the global innovation ecosystem.”
Prof. Gogotsi has filed more than 190 patent applications, and has received more than 70 issued patents, of which more than 30 have been licensed to industry. He thanks his nominators, co-inventors, and companies that acquired licenses for using his patented carbon and MXene materials and technologies for their support in reaching this monumental honor.
A pioneer in advanced ceramic materials and structures, Prof. Wachsman developed the first solid-state battery to achieve the Department of Energy Fast Charge Goal for Li-metal cycling
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Alvin (Al) W. Czanderna, 93, who served in the US Air Force, at Union Carbide (UC), Clarkson University, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), died in San Antonio, TX on June 5, 2023.
Born May 27, 1930 in La Porte, IN, Al earned a BS in Metallurgical Engineering in 1951 and a PhD in Physical Chemistry in 1957, both at Purdue University. During his 53-year career, he was a physical metallurgist in the Air Force from 1951 to 1953; research scientist with UC at Parma, OH and South Charleston, WV from 1957 to 1965; Professor of Physics at Clarkson from 1965 to 1978; and one of the inaugural research fellows at the Solar Energy Research Institute, Golden CO, which became NREL in 1991, from 1978 to 1999. He served in adjunct professor positions at the universities of Denver, Colorado School of Mines, and Colorado at various times between 1980–2000. He retired in 1999, serving as a consultant to NREL until 2004.
Al was a lifetime member of the ECS, which he joined in 1991. He received the Fourth Research Award of the Energy Technology Division of the ECS in May 1999 for his research contributions in renewable energy research and development. In 2000, he received
at room temperature. His inventions include record high power density solid oxide fuel cells, catalytic membrane reactors that convert natural gas to value added chemicals with no greenhouse gas emissions, and solid-state sensors that can selectively measure levels of harmful pollutants in combustion exhaust. He holds 37 US patents that have been licensed to four companies.
from the ACS the Arthur Adamson Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Surface Chemistry. The Chemistry Department of Purdue named him a distinguished alumnus in 2004; the AVS International elevated him an Honorary Member in 2006, the 32nd at that time of the 6,500-member organization. Al contributed 258 publications to the scientific literature, including 57 review chapters and 21 edited books. As an internationally recognized surface scientist, he gave more than 425 technical talks, including 225 invited lectures and 25 talks during ACS Speaker Tours.
He was a passionate member of eleven congregations of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and served as a congregational officer and as a member of the Synod Board for Higher Education for 13 years. Al demanded perfection of himself and pursued all activities with a passion, including writing his family history.
A more complete obituary is available here. Al is survived by his daughters Karel and Kani, their husbands Dan Shirkey and Bill Nichols, four grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. He was predeceased by Lucy, his wife of 59 years, and his daughter Kathy. Al desired any memorial contributions be made to Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, 6914 Wurzbach Rd., San Antonio, TX, 78240 or to a charity of your choice. A replay of the funeral service is available here.
Dr. Peter William Faguy, an electrochemist, teacher, and civil servant, passed away on August 12, 2022. He was an Electrochemical Society Emeritus Member and a member of the Battery Division and National Capital Section. Prior to joining the National Capital Section, he was heavily involved in the Detroit Section from 1997 to 2009.
Peter was born in Hamilton, Ontario on December 20, 1956 and developed an early interest in science while attending St. Mary’s Catholic High School in Hamilton, Ontario. Peter attributed his excellent science teachers at St. Mary’s to nurturing his curiosity in physics and chemistry and laying the foundation of his skills in critical thinking. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, followed by a PhD in Physical Electrochemistry from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). While at CWRU, he received the 1988 Charles F. Mabery Prize for the best PhD dissertation from the Department of Chemistry. After graduating, he held a postdoctoral position in Chemistry at the University of California, Davis (1988–1990) and then became Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Louisville.
After 10 years of teaching undergraduate and graduate level classes while conducting electrochemistry research, Peter left his tenured professor position to help start up a nanomaterials company, MicroCoating Technology. There he was the director of the electrochemical materials division, with responsibilities for its development and commercialization efforts. In an interview with the Detroit Business Newsletter, Peter said that his goal was “to make the
I for one always believed in the silver linings on dark clouds. But not any longer. For only in February did we hear the news that Sri Narayan was showing significant improvement in a rather roller coaster experience of medical conditions. We were looking forward to seeing him back in action. But on May 24, 2023, God decided to have Sri by his side, ending his hard battle with cancer and lifting the clouds as the Northern Lights ushered him to Heaven. Suddenly the rainbow turned all gray. Sri, my alter-ego in many ways, is now a memory. Left to cherish his memory are his wife Vaidehi, daughter Priyanka, son-inlaw Shivan, two grandsons Ishaan and Sahil, other family members, friends, and students.
Born Sekharipuram Ramachandran Narayanan in 1959, he grew up without the care of his mother, whom he lost when he was just six. His childhood years were an idyllic time in his life, under the care of his uncle and grandmother as his father was away at the Reserve
world a better place through the marketplace. Instead of looking at the technology and seeing how neat it is, I wanted to figure out how to make it work in the real world.” To continue to accomplish this, he became Director of Electrochemical Materials at NGimat, Vice President for Advanced Chemistry and Materials at WATTS Energy, oversaw the fuel cell division at Rochester Hills–based Energy Conversion Devices Inc., and founded Admamede, a consulting firm, in 2004.
Peter later returned to academia as Adjunct Professor of Alternative Energy Technologies at Wayne State University (2004–2010) where he taught a class on vehicle fuels, “Transportation Energy Choices.” Peter believed that the students kept him honest while allowing him to examine the merits of competing power sources, preventing him from becoming too enamored with any one concept.
He eventually ended his teaching career and joined the Department of Energy (DOE) in 2010 where he was manager of the Applied Battery Research Program, in the DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Vehicle Technologies Office until his death. His translational R&D portfolio was distributed over several National Laboratories, academia, and industry. He oversaw numerous projects aimed at screening novel materials, developing new processing capabilities, and solving barriers associated with the commercialization of affordable, high-performance batteries. In essence, Peter met his goal of transiting innovative technology to the marketplace. His efforts helped pave the way for maturing the United States’ position in the commercialization of electric vehicles on the global market He is survived by his beloved wife Rada and adoring daughter Ana.
This notice is compiled from remembrances published by Patricia Smith and Tien Duong.
Bank of India in Mumbai. At Padma Seshardri, Chennai, where he was schooled, he first encountered what would come to be his life’s purpose—chemistry and physics. That passion earned him a National Science Talent Search (NTS) scholarship, and he joined me at Loyola College, Chennai as a fellow NTS scholar. That was in 1976. We then parted ways, Sri leaving for the Indian Institute of Technology Madras for his Master’s program, only for us to rejoin as PhD scholars at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1981 under the supervision of Prof. S. Sathyanarayana.
While at IIT Madras, Sri met the love of his life, his earthly angel, Vaidehi. They married in 1986 and welcomed their daughter, Priyanka, in 1987. After a brief spell at the Pune laboratory of Bharat Electronics Ltd, he moved to the University of Exeter, where he worked with Robert C.T. Slade as a post-doctoral fellow. Upon winning a Resident Research Associateship of the National Research Council, he then shifted to the US Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1990, the year he joined The Electrochemical Society in the Electrochemical Technology Division.
He spent 20 years at JPL, pioneering the development of direct methanol fuel cells, which won him the NASA-JPL Exceptional
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Achievement Award. He also rose to head the Electrochemical Technologies Group. His contributions to low-temperature lithiumion battery technology were crucial for NASA’s Mars expeditions. Between 2009 and 2011 he chaired the Energy Technology Division of the Electrochemical Society.
In 2010 he joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute of the University of Southern California (USC), where he also served as the Faculty Advisor of the ECS student chapter. At USC, he revisited his old passion—unfulfilled dreams of our mentor, Prof. Sathyanarayana. In this vein, Sri strove to bring low-cost electrochemical technologies to people in under-resourced areas across the world. Sustainable energy storage technologies (such as nickel-iron and iron-air batteries, and a gamechanger flow battery based on iron sulfate and anthraquinone disulfonic acid) were at the heart of his efforts, which took him to the Native American population in California and to locations as far as India, Tanzania, and Uganda. At the core of the first two systems was his groundbreaking work on a rechargeable iron electrode with a coulombic efficiency of 96+% as well as recombination catalysts that led to sealed nickel-iron batteries. He founded Staq Energy in order to promote commercialization of sealed nickel-iron batteries for large-scale energy storage.
For his scientific accomplishments and his service to the Society, including organizing numerous symposia at ECS meetings and serving on more than 15 committees over the years, Sri was awarded Fellow of the Electrochemical Society in 2012.
In 2021 Sri was inducted into the American National Academy of Inventors, which is the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.
As a researcher, he was full to the brim with exceptional insights. He was also a perfectionist, almost to a fault. Principled and strongwilled, Sri put his heart and soul into research. Few would know that he learned Russian so as not to miss the pre-1970s electrochemistry behind the Iron Curtain. Even a couple of days before he left us, he
did not give up on himself, hoping to get back where he belonged— his laboratory. In fact, as he was struggling to make sense of his increasingly incoherent murmurs, his oncologist asked him if he was a workaholic. He replied instantaneously and lucidly, “Absolutely!” He had a big and generous heart, which he shared lavishly with his family, friends, and students. As a mentor, he had an exceptional knack of bringing out the best in his students, even the ones rejected by other members of the faculty. A long line of his mentees will remember him for ever for finding themselves plying their trade perched in top positions. In fact, he was so welcoming that he never knew a stranger.
Amidst his world-class research efforts he found time for his personal interests, which ran his creative gamut. He was a poet and a nature lover. As a poet he saw magic in all things and rejoiced in putting them into words. Indian classical music was in his blood, and he was adept at playing the mridangam (an Indian percussion instrument) and the harmonica. He also loved vegetarian food; puttu, a popular steamed food in Kerala, was his favourite, with which, without fail, I would treat him whenever he visited me. In sum, Sri was a beautiful person inside and out—giving, caring, and selfless. As a family man, he doted on his daughter and two grandsons. He will be missed by the many lives he touched with his incredible compassion. Vaidehi described the loss as a loss of the very foundation of her life. While the scientific community mourns his demise, people who knew him will cherish his impact on their lives.
As he continues his pursuit for the truth and enjoys higher melodies, let me dedicate to him his favourite Hindi song (Chaudhvin ka chand ho), the first two lines of which may be translated as:
Are you the full moon of the night or are you the shining sun of the afternoon?
Whatever you are, I say you are beyond compare.
This notice was contributed by T. Prem Kumar, Retired scientist, Central Electrochemical Research Institute, India.
During his 20 years at NASA’s JPL, Sri led their fuel cell research activities for over 15 years and headed the Electrochemical Technologies Group for 7 years. He worked successfully with multiple government and private funding agencies to make advances in both fundamental and applied aspects of electrochemical power sources. While at JPL, Sri and his associates pioneered the development of direct methanol fuel cell power sources for military, space, and commercial applications; developed new approaches to catalyst preparation by the sputter-deposition technique; developed new membranes and stacks; and demonstrated a range of hybrid power source systems for space and defense applications. He received NASA-JPL’s Exceptional Achievement Award for the development of the direct methanol fuel cell and transferring the technology to industry.
At the University of Southern California, Sri led research in the area of energy storage, tackling the challenges of inexpensive and robust batteries for large-scale energy storage needed for integration of solar- and wind-based electricity generation with the grid. His research focused on aqueous batteries based on rechargeable iron electrodes and redox-flow batteries based on iron and small organic molecules. In addition, Prof. Narayan also developed unique approaches to addressing the challenges of lithium-sulfur batteries and electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to fuels.
Sri published over 200 journal publications and held over 50 US patents on various aspects of electrochemical technology. He delivered invited talks on numerous occasions and organized several conferences under the auspices of The Electrochemical Society. From 2009 to 2011 he was the Chairman of the Society's Energy Technology Division; this was in addition to hold every other officer position in
the Division (secretary, treasurer, vice chair, and past chair). He was elected Fellow of the Electrochemical Society in 2012. In 2015, he was awarded the Phi Kappa Phi faculty recognition award by the University of Southern California. His efforts to commercialize battery technologies were recognized with two awards in 2017 and 2018 by the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation.
This In Memoriam from the ETD Division was composed by Mani Manivannan and Vigai Ramani.
Prof. Emeritus Glenn E. Stoner of the University of Virginia (UVA) passed away on August 9, 2023 after a brief illness. He is mourned by his wife Marlene, his sons Kevin, Brian, and Steve, and his many grandchildren and great-grandchildren, not to mention the vast number of friends, colleagues, and former students whose lives he touched.
Glenn’s professional life is summarized in the History of ECS section of the Society’s website and his papers published in JES are available in a special collection. But those sites describe only a smallest part of the true impact that Glenn had. After earning his degrees at the Missouri School of Mines (BS and MS) and the University of Pennsylvania (PhD), Glenn eventually joined the faculty of the UVA Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) in 1973 where he decided to use his understanding of the fundamentals of electrochemistry to address practical problems.
Glenn’s superpower was his ability to educate and develop students and colleagues. It sounds like an obvious role for a professor, but he was simply great at it, and he did it in the most gentle and kindest way possible. An early demonstration of this superpower was his hiring of George Cahen as a PhD student and Louie Scribner (founder of Scribner Associates) as a lab manager to establish the Applied Electrochemistry Laboratory (AEL). It was indeed a single laboratory, as in one room. But Glenn could sell ice in Alaska, so he quickly had several research projects which used electrochemical processes to address a range of problems. George and Louie were tasked with meeting the promises Glenn made to sponsors. One of their earliest research programs looked for ways to use electrochemistry to sanitize human wastewater, which was of great interest to the US Navy. Although a successful technology was created, it was not embraced by the Navy, so it sat for about 25 years before one of Glenn’s sons, Brian, and a former student, Jeff Glass, resurrected it with funding from the Gates Foundation as part of the Reinventing the Toilet program aimed at bringing safe sanitation to
the roughly half of the world’s population that does not have it.
The success of the Navy project begat additional programs. As the promises accumulated, the laboratory grew, and those promises kept being met because Glenn was able to convince people that they could do anything, even though he had no idea how they would do it. One of his favorite sayings was “Just because we have never done it before doesn’t mean we’re not good at it.” His emphasis on the “applied” part of the AEL was one of the reasons he attracted very accomplished students, but he also attracted students who were uncertain that they belonged in graduate school. But Glenn was never uncertain, and that unwavering, deep, and heartfelt dedication was incredibly inspiring. Students simply did not want to let Glenn down, so they achieved to an extent that they would never have dreamed. Glenn created tremendous camaraderie amongst the MSE students and especially within AEL, even pitching for the department softball team and drinking a beverage or three afterwards.
Over the next three decades, Glenn expanded the AEL into the multi-departmental Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering (CESE). He did so with a gentle hand and a keen eye for the type of people who would flourish if given the means to do so. By the mid-1990’s, the CESE was going strong with six faculty and 30 graduate students, and awarding seven or more graduate degrees each year. Glenn sent his students all over the world or brought in world class expertise such as his friend Eliezer Gileadi as a visiting scientist. Glenn and George’s PhD students went on to incredibly successful careers, including several academic grandchildren, who were in turn quite successful. His graduates also include a few engineering school deans, some notable small company CEOs and several chief technical officers of large technology companies.
Since Glenn’s retirement, the CESE has continued to educate and develop young scientists and engineers as well as add to the body of knowledge in electrochemistry and corrosion. In June 2024, we will celebrate 50 years of electrochemical science and engineering in the UVA School of Engineering and Applied Science. It is very tragic that Glenn will not be there in person, but he will certainly be present in spirit and will be the subject of much of the celebration.
No mention of Glenn is complete without recognizing the role his Marlene played. Together more than 61 years, they were equal partners at a time when that was unusual, to say the least. Besides hosting innumerable parties and get togethers for students and their spouses or sometimes future spouses, Glenn and Marlene were also the housing of last resort on more than one occasion. The informal “bed and breakfast” at Thomson Ave. was always open. But they didn’t just give people a place to live, the guests became part of the family. For people going through hard times, they were lifesavers. For all of those who were recipients of that kindness, Glenn’s passing hits particularly close to home.
As of this writing, although news of his passing has been out less than six hours, the number of email tributes is overflowing. Glenn was well loved in life and will be missed terribly. We know that he is fishing somewhere, probably with Eliezer Gileadi, his dear friend and de facto advisor, sitting next to him, trying to get Glenn to listen to a new theory on pseudocapacitance. Glenn is smiling, enjoying the company, if not the lecture.
This remembrance was written by the Co-Directors of the UVA Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering founded by Glenn: Robert G. Kelly, Interface editor and AT&T Professor of Engineering and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and John R. Scully, Charles Henderson Chaired Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.
The capstone chemical engineering senior process design course at Penn State in spring 2023 tasked students with designing a caustic soda process to partially meet the global demand for commoditized sodium hydroxide. This article disseminates our experience teaching senior chemical engineering students the core tenets of electrochemical engineering in a single class period for designing an electrolytic caustic soda process. In this E-Chem Education article, we relate key concepts found in chemical engineering (such as sizing up a reactor volume), which chemical engineering seniors are adept with, to electrochemical engineering principles (e.g., current density, voltage, and membrane electrode assembly area) for sizing up and costing out a chlor-alkali electrolyzer. Furthermore, we also discuss alternative electrolyzer designs outside the traditional chlor-alkali process, such as oxygen depolarized cathode (ODC) chlor-alkali and bipolar membrane electrodialysis (BPMED), for caustic soda production and the pros and cons of the alternative process designs.
Most ECS members came to the field of electrochemistry/ electrochemical engineering via research in topic areas outside chloralkali and electrowinning aluminum. However, these two processes are the most mature in the field of industrial electrochemical engineering and are practiced at scale. Hence, most ECS members only come to learn about the two industrial processes when taking a formal electrochemical engineering course (or having to teach it). As an aside, I (Chris Arges) am a big fan of the science fiction writer Andy Weir, who wrote the novels The Martian, Project Hail Mary, and Artemis. In Artemis, which is named for the Moon colony where the story takes place, an electrowinning process converts anorthite, an abundant Moon mineral, to oxygen and aluminum. The oxygen enables the humans in the colony to breathe and the aluminum is used for constructing buildings. Because of the massive effort to decarbonize the global economy by 50% in 2030 and have net-zero emissions by 2050, there is a tremendous effort to electrify industrial processes, especially hard-to-abate CO2 emission processes such as fertilizer production, steel manufacturing, and concrete production. Whether it is imagining Moon colonies or taking on dire global challenges, giving soon-to-be process engineers a foundation in electrochemistry is useful. It is worth remarking that ECS just celebrated the 80th anniversary of the Industrial Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Engineering (IEEE) Division. Industrial electrochemistry has never been more relevant.
The CHE 470 Senior Capstone Design at Penn State tasked 105 chemical engineering seniors to design a chlor-alkali process (Fig. 1) for their caustic soda plant. This plant was required to deliver 525 kilo-tonnes per annum (ktpa) of sodium hydroxide. The key learning objectives for the course were: 1) hierarchical design to break large projects with hundreds of degrees of freedom (DoF) into smaller chunks with a more manageable number of DoF; 2) optimizing the plant based on net present value (NPV) rather than on conversion or other technical measures; 3) analyzing the tradeoff of operating expenses (OpEx) and capital expenditures (CapEx); and 4) integrating previously acquired technical knowledge and finding new technical knowledge as needed.
Most senior design projects utilize a continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) or plug flow reactor (PFR) at the heart of their process. The key variables in designing and sizing up these reactors are flow rate, temperature, the selection of the catalyst, and feed concentrations. These inputs, as well as various reactor design equations found in chemical reaction engineering, are used to estimate the volume of the reactor needed (left column of Table I). The number of reactors and their size influence the CapEx. Once the technical parameters are connected to the cost, the reactor’s operating temperature, size, and conversion are tuned to optimize NPV against given constraints.
At Penn State, the senior design course in previous years asked students to make a first estimate of the reactor volume needed by giving them a rate-law expression and feed concentration. The chloralkali process, however, uses an electrolyzer, which is not so much defined by 3-D volume and the cost of a granular catalyst, but by a 2-D area that encompasses the membrane separator and electrodes. Furthermore, traditional rate-law expressions are not used in the sizing up of an electrolyzer. The membranes and electrode areas in the electrolyzer dictate the CapEx. The dimensionally stabilized anode (DSA) contains a mixed metal oxide (MMO) of platinum group metals (e.g., iridium and ruthenium oxides) for the chlorine evolution reaction while resisting corrosion.1 The DSA is the costliest component in a chlor-alkali electrolyzer (> $5000 m-2). Table II highlights some of the differences between the usual design case encountered in traditional senior design courses in chemical engineering and the chlor-alkali case. Table I compares the design equations used for a CSTR and PFR and a chlor-alkali electrolyzer.
At the onset of the course, Prof. Velegol, the instructor for the senior design course, surveyed the students about their knowledge of electrochemistry. It was assumed that the students would have gotten some exposure to this material in a Physical Chemistry course. However, it is worth noting that several Chemical Engineering curriculums throughout the United States have removed Physical Chemistry from their required courses to accommodate other courses
Table I. Differences in basic design equations for CSTR and PFR and chlor-alkali electrolyzer.
Sizing up CSTR and PFR at steady state
CSTR: r Q V CC i f R iO i () (1) V Q R f (2)
PFR: r Q A dC dx i f t
i = (3)a
a constant density fluid & no pressure drop
Qf : fluid volumetric flow rate
VR : reactor volume
τ : residence time
At : cross-sectional area of the PFR
IMPORTANT DESIGN EQUATIONS
Sizing up the chlor-alkali electrolyzer at steady state
Faraday’s Law of Electrolysis: InF dn dt i = (4) A I i = (5)
InF dn dt i = : change in moles of NaOH per time
F : Faraday’s constant
n : # of electrons transferred per OH-
I : change in moles of NaOH per time
i : current density for chlor-alkali process (0.4 A cm-2)
A : geometric cell area for the electrolyzer
ri : rate expression for species “i,” which includes the rate constant “k”
Ci : concentration of species “i”
Ci,0 : feed concentration of species “i”
Energy balances for CSTR and PFRs
CSTR:
QH rV QC TT H iRii Rf f p f () (6)
QU AT T H ha 0 () (7)
PFR: qH rQ C dT dV H iRii ff p R (8)b
b assumes constant pressure and ideal gas
q R UT T H a 2 0 () (9)
• QH : heat input or removal for CSTR
qH : heat input or removal for PFR
R : radius of PFR
Ah : area for heat transfer
Uo : overall heat transfer coefficient
Ta : temperature of the jacket
ΔHRi : heat of reaction
pf : density of the fluid
Ĉp : specific heat capacity of the fluid
Tf : feed temperature
such as process safety and statistics. The survey revealed that the students had little memory of electrochemistry concepts. Prof. Velegol asked Prof. Arges, an electrochemical engineer, to give a one-class lecture on electrochemical engineering principles and their relation to a chlor-alkali process. In the lecture, Prof. Arges covered concepts such as half reactions, Faraday’s Law of Electrolysis, electrochemical thermodynamics, and sources of overpotential. He did not explore concepts like the Butler-Volmer equation and the Nernst-Planck framework for predicting ionic conductivity; rather, he simply presented a graph of reaction rate (mol/m2-sec), expressed as current density (A/cm2), versus cell voltage (i.e., a polarization curve). He showed the students that the cell voltage arises from the standard thermodynamic potentials for the reaction, and that the departure from the cell voltage occurs via various overpotentials related to reaction kinetics (i.e., activation overpotential—which can be determined using the Butler-Volmer equation), ohmic losses (e.g., ion transport in the aqueous electrolytes and across the membrane separator), and mass transfer (i.e., concentration overpotential). Prof. Arges demonstrated that the current density reflects the production rate of the product depending on the Faradaic efficiency (i.e., the electrical current utilized to make the desired product at an electrode).
Energy considerations for chlor-alkali electrolyzer GnFE 00 (10) EE RT nF
(11)
Cr: concentration of reductant; CO: concentration of oxidant
Ei ENernst actohm () (12)c
c assume no significant concentration polarization (i.e., no significant mass transfer resistance)
ηi: overpotential act
(13)
αan & αcath: transfer coefficients i0 an & i0 cat : exchange current density values (14)
Ri : ohmic resistance for the membrane, anolyte compartment, or catholyte compartment di : thickness of the membrane, anolyte compartment, or catholyte compartment ki : ionic conductivity of the membrane, anolyte compartment, or catholyte compartment
Energy use = () EI dt (15)
Another topic covered in this one-day lecture was the tradeoff between OpEx and CapEx in the chlor-alkali process (Fig. 2). The size of the electrolyzer, namely membrane and electrode area, and the CapEx are reduced by increasing the cell voltage (i.e., applying more overpotential) so a higher current density can be attained. Of course, this increases the OpEx through wasted electrical energy. Prof. Arges also discussed how materials innovation, such as reducing ohmic overpotentials via more conductive membrane separators, can reduce the electrolyzer size and CapEx without necessarily increasing the OpEx. Reducing the various overpotentials through materials innovation enables the process to run at a higher current density for a given voltage when benchmarked against a system without membrane and electrode improvements. It is worth mentioning that chemical engineering process design courses normally use Aspen Plus to design the reactors and the overall process. However, Aspen Plus does not have standard electrolyzer modules and the use of a process design software package proved to be too difficult for this one-semester course. Prof. Velegol thought it was an advantage for the students to perform their own calculations and to think about the design equations rather than use a simulation software package.
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Design a 3-D volume for a Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor (CSTR) and/or a Plug Flow Reactor (PFR)
Determine the 2-D area for the electrodes and membrane separator
Select a temperature at which to operate the reactor Select a voltage at which to operate the electrolyzer. The stack can also be operated at an elevated temperature, but it cannot exceed the boiling point of the aqueous feed streams. The internal cell resistances within the stack can be used to elevate the temperature of the stack.
The conversion and reactor size are often governed by reaction rate coefficients that are controlled by the selection of the catalysts
The energy use is primarily determined by the amount of heat that needs to be added to (if an endothermic reaction) or removed from (for an exothermic reaction) the reactor
After the reaction, a complex, and often energy intensive, separation process train is used to purify the products
The conversion is governed by cell current density. Increasing the voltage further to drive higher current is only possible to a certain point as one needs to be concerned about component corrosion and other parasitic reactions. The reaction kinetic parameters, which affect the activation overpotential, are normally defined by the exchange current density and Tafel slope. These parameters are used in the Butler-Volmer equation to define the activation overpotential. The electrode or electrocatalyst selection governs the reaction kinetics in the electrolyzer
Energy use is largely controlled by the cell voltage. The half-cell equilibrium potentials set the floor voltage needed. The floor voltage plus the overpotentials for passage of electrical current dictate the overall cell voltage.
The chlor-alkali electrolyzer features a membrane separator between the anolyte and catholyte compartments leading to separation of NaOH and Cl2 products. The Cl2 and the aqueous NaOH solution leaving the electrolyzer stack often needs further drying. The separation and partial purification of products in the chlor-alkali electrolyzer simplifies further downstream separation/ purification units (i.e., it is a form of process intensification). The system benefits in energy both in the reaction and in the separation operations.
The final part of the one-class lecture covered alternative process designs for caustic soda production and a brief discussion of different membrane separators for the chlor-alkali process. The chlor-alkali process is recognized for being energy intensive. Its large energy use arises from the minimum cell voltage needed (-2.2 V) for the chlorine evolution reaction and the water reduction reaction. Because there are regions across the globe where electricity costs are not low, an alternative chlor-alkali process has been developed using an oxygen depolarized cathode (ODC). The ODC chlor-alkali process (Fig. 3a) performs oxygen reduction at the cathode under basic conditions. This reduces the minimum cell voltage by 1.23 V (-0.96 V versus -2.19 V). ODC chlor-alkali, however, does not generate hydrogen as a by-product. For most industrial applications that desire only caustic soda or chlorine, the absence of a hydrogen product is acceptable as the other plant operations in close vicinity do not have a need for the hydrogen product, such that sometimes the hydrogen is simply flared.2 Another process design for caustic soda production involves bipolar membrane (BPM) electrodialysis (ED) (Fig. 3b). This process generates a sodium hydroxide stream and a hydrochloric acid stream from aqueous sodium chloride feed streams. Lienhard and co-workers
recently reported that BPMED offers the lowest specific energy use for sodium hydroxide from a theoretical analysis when compared to conventional chlor-alkali.3 The process does not perform the chlorine evolution reaction. However, BPMED in practice shows comparable or slightly higher energy use when compared to chlor-alkali. The authors assert that further research is needed in BPMED to improve its energy efficiency. More recently, Arges et al. demonstrated BPM membrane capacitive deionization (BPM MCDI) to make an alkaline process stream (i.e., aqueous sodium hydroxide) from an aqueous saline feed.4 BPM MCDI does not generate hydrogen or oxygen gas and it uses low-cost carbon cloth electrodes.
Chlor-alkali processes have historically featured three types of cell designs: 1) mercury flow cell, 2) diaphragm membrane, and 3) cation exchange membrane. The mercury flow has been phased out due to environmental issues.1 The cation exchange membrane separator, which uses one layer of perfluorosulfonic acid and another layer of perfluorocarboxylic acid, is the preferred membrane separator today as the diaphragm membrane contains asbestos. The perfluorocarboxylic acid layer in the cation exchange membrane mitigates hydroxide ion crossover from the catholyte compartment to the anolyte compartment. This is important for preventing corrosion of the DSA. The cation exchange membrane chlor-alkali process operates at a lower cell voltage and higher current density as it has a lower ohmic overpotential. This leads to the cation exchange membrane chlor-alkali process having a lower specific energy consumption for sodium hydroxide. However, perfluorinated cation exchange membranes are quite costly (~$500 m-2) when compared to diaphragm separators. This is an additional example showing the trade-off between CapEx and OpEx.
In short, the traditional Chemical Engineering Senior Process Design course is an effective place for students to learn electrochemical engineering concepts and to design chemical processes that are powered on renewable electrons. At the end of the course, Prof. Velegol observed that the students were effective in applying the equations to make calculations for the size, energy use, and cost of the chlor-alkali electrolyzer. This senior design project can be improved by having students come into the course with a stronger foundation in electrochemical engineering. This could be accomplished by introducing the core principles of electrochemical engineering in the core chemical engineering courses (e.g., Material Balances, Energy Balances/Thermodynamics, Transport Phenomena, and Reactor Design) before process design—as discussed in last year’s E-Chem Education article.5 Overall, we envision that the chlor-alkali process design project can be adopted by other instructors teaching
b) Bipolar membrane electrodialysis (BPMED)
a) Oxygen depolarized cathode (ODC) chloro-alkali
senior process design. There is ample opportunity to modify the course objectives by comparing processes with different membrane separators or different unit operations (e.g., BPMED versus ODC chlor-alkali).
C. G. Arges acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation (Award # 2143056) for this work.
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Christopher G. Arges, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Institutes of Energy and the Environment, Pennsylvania State University
Education: BS (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), MS (NC State), and PhD (Illinois Institute of Technology) in Chemical Engineering; Postdoc (University of Chicago/ Argonne National Laboratory) in Molecular Engineering
Research Interests: Polymer electrolyte membranes, Block copolymer self-assembly, Separations, Fuel cells, Electrolysis Work Experience: Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering at Penn State since August 2021, Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering at Louisiana State University (2016 to 2021).
Pubs + Patents: 65 peer-reviewed publications, h-index 29, 54 invited talks, 4 ECS Interface articles, 6 papers in Journal of the Electrochemical Society
Honors & Awards: NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER), ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship, 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award.
Work with ECS: 13 years of ECS membership, Session Organizer for IE&EE Division, Member at Large for IE&EE Division and Energy Technology Division
Website: https://sites.psu.edu/arges/ https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1703-8323
Darrell Velegol, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
Education: BS (West Virginia University) and PhD (Carnegie Mellon University) in Chemical Engineering; Postdoc, Carnegie Mellon University.
Research Interests: Innovation processes, Colloidal systems.
Work Experience: Faculty in Chemical Engineering at Penn State since June 1999, President of The Knowlecular Processes Company since 2017.
Pubs + Patents: 109 peer-reviewed publications, h-index 41, 1 ECS Interface article
Honors & Awards: NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER), Fellow of AAAS, LaMer Award (ACS).
Website: https://www.che.psu.edu/department/directory-detail-g. aspx?q=DXV9 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9215-081X
Matthew L. Jordan, Senior Process Engineer - Electrodialysis, Energy Exploration Technologies
Education: BS (Texas Tech University) and PhD (Louisiana State University) in Chemical Engineering; Visiting Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory.
Research Interests: Electrochemical separations, Ion-exchange membranes, Electrochemical cell design, Process scale-up Work Experience: Senior Process Engineer at EnergyX since April 2022.
Pubs + Patents: 7 peer-reviewed publications, 2 patents, h-index: 3, 2 papers in Journal of the Electrochemical Society.
Honors & Awards: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, U.S. DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Fellowship, Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholarship.
Work with ECS: 4 years of ECS membership, Secretary of LSU ECS Student Chapter https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6913-9364
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt marveled at the critical role technological innovation played during World War II. In a letter dated November 17, 1944, President Roosevelt tasked Vannevar Bush, Director of the US Office of Scientific Research and Development, to make recommendations for the federal government to translate the lessons learned from the war effort to peacetime use. President Roosevelt’s idea was to promote scientific discovery1
“…for the improvement of the national health, the creation of new enterprises bringing new jobs, and the betterment of the national standard of living…”
The goal of economic development through technological innovation for the betterment of society is not new and was previously envisioned by the nation’s founders as articulated in the “patent clause” of the US Constitution, “The Congress shall have the Power2
…to promote the progress of Science and the useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to …Inventors the exclusive Right to their …Discoveries.”
Richard C. Alkire, Professor Emeritus of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana, has championed Electrochemical Society symposia and edited a book directed toward the theme of translating basic science into engineering solutions.3 This issue of Interface continues the theme, focused on commercialization of electrochemical and materials science technologies. The articles introduced herein share insights and lessons learned on the path from discovery to product.
The first article, titled “Is Commercialization of Intellectual Property in an Academic Environment Feasible,” is co-authored by the brother and sister duo of Bill Leddy and Johna Leddy. Bill has considerable experience with more than ten venture capital–financed companies, and Johna Leddy, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Iowa, is an inventor and Fellow and Past President of the ECS. The authors describe the numerous inherent conflicts within the academic environment vis-à-vis technology commercialization. The university emphasizes the education of students, writing grant proposals, publishing papers, and the like. For commercialization, patents are often the foundation for attracting financing but are generally in conflict with the desire to publish. Additionally, the numerous academic and commercialization “hats” required on the path from discovery to product necessitate procedures to manage conflict of interest (COI) matters. The authors include suggestions for the University Technology Transfer Office (UTTO) and suggest that much of the effort required to commercialize a technological innovation will “come from outside the university environment.”
The article titled “Iron Flow Battery with Slurry Electrode for Large Scale Energy Storage: Scale-up, Intellectual Property, and Commercialization Challenges” is co-authored by Robert F. Savinell and Jesse S. Wainright. Robert Savinell is Distinguished University Professor and George S. Dively Professor of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Fellow of the ECS, and Editorin-Chief of JECS. Jesse Wainright is Research Professor of Chemical
Engineering at CWRU. The authors provide a case study of licensing of an iron flow battery. The article provides the technical background of the iron flow battery and the role of funding from ARPA-E in supporting the continued technical development and scale-up. The authors describe the role of the UTTO in protecting the intellectual property and obtaining patent protection. The article lists some of the challenges to finding a licensee and the requirements of the licensee in the license agreement. The article concludes that the path from discovery to product is “long and often tortuous.”
The article titled “The Path from Scientific Discovery to Electrochemical Product Realization” is co-authored by Robert D. Hilty and Tom Clay. Robert Hilty and Tom Clay are Vice President of Research and Development and CEO at Xtalic Corporation, respectively. Their article provides a case study of the formation of a company to commercialize technology based on a series of discoveries by Prof. Christopher A. Shuh and his team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The technology is based on nanocrystalline alloy coatings prepared by periodic reverse current electrodeposition. Prof. Shuh’s group provided fundamental understanding regarding alloy selection and the selection of the electrodeposition parameters. The authors discuss the challenges associated with identifying the appropriate application and associated value proposition. Further, the authors note that the value proposition can take many forms, depending on the technology and market. The case study continues with examples of “What didn’t work” and “What worked” in moving a functional chromium coating application and an electrical connector coating application from discovery to market, respectively. Finally, the authors share their insights in identifying the appropriate commercialization partner.
The final article, titled “Transitioning Electrochemical Technologies into Agriculture via the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center Model,” is authored by Gerardine G. Botte. Gerardine Botte is Professor and Whitacre Endowed Chair in Sustainable Energy at Texas Tech University, and Fellow and current President of the ECS. The author is the Founder and Director of a recently awarded NSF-ERC for “Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production (CASFER).” CASFER is focused on feeding the world’s growing population while enabling sustainable agriculture. CASFER is led by Texas Tech University with academic partners Georgia Tech, Case Western Reserve University, Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. CASFER’s transformational vision includes the convergence of a multidisciplinary team and the establishment of an innovation ecosystem to accelerate the translation from discovery to market. CASFER promotes workforce development and diversity and inclusion to support its vision and innovation ecosystem. To aid in moving CASFER-derived technologies to market, industrial partners provide input to the strategic plan, mentoring students and engaging in joint research projects.
Translating basic research into real-world applications is critical for economic development and for solving societal challenges. The path from discovery to product has numerous twists, turns, and detours. To help further this vital effort, the authors of this special issue of Interface share their experiences and insights into commercialization of electrochemical and materials science technologies.
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E. Jennings Taylor, Founder of Faraday Technology, Inc.
Research Interest: Founder of Faraday Technology, Inc., a small business focused on developing innovative electrochemical processes and technologies based on pulse and pulse reverse electrolytic principles. Until his recent retirement, Taylor led Faraday’s patent and commercialization strategy and negotiated numerous patents via field-of-use licenses as well as patent sales. He is admitted to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) in patents cases as a patent agent (Registration No. 53,676). He is a Member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA).
Pubs & Patents: Numerous technical pubs and presentations, inventor on 40 patents.
Work with ECS: Member for 42 years, ECS Fellow.
Website: http://www.faradaytechnology.com/ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3410-0267
1. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Letter to Vannevar Bush, November 17, 1944
2. United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 8.
3. R. C. Alkire, P. N. Bartlett, and M. Koper (eds.), Electrochemical Engineering: From Discovery to Product, Wiley-VCH, New York (2018).
The question: Is commercialization of intellectual property feasible in an academic environment? There are many factors, unique and disparate, that separate Academia and commercialization and licensing. There are substantial misalignments of objectives (Fig. 1). A fundamental idea inaugurated in an academic lab follows a complex path to commercialization. Along the way, the principal investigator (PI) wears many hats. Here, some of the challenges for an academic PI navigating that path are counterbalanced with investors’ perspectives on commercialization.
Some of the complexities discussed are tracked in Fig. 2.
The Research-to-Product Path: from Fundamental Idea to Papers, Grants, Commercialization, Licenses
Research in any environment starts with an idea ( ). Under an academic’s hat ( ), this is often an idea based in fundamental science. Research begins. For students engaged in the research, it is an opportunity to train in their discipline. As the project progresses, basic research may evolve into an application or two. The PI may acquire a new hat, a wizard’s hat ( ), as inventor. The output from
the project begins to bifurcate into papers and patents. The applied and the basic coexist for a time, as each can generate funding. On the academic side, papers lead to grant applications that lead to papers that lead to grants. Applied research leads to initial proofs of concept and prototypes, and more grant applications. Ultimately, as the path progresses to commercialization and licensing, substantial funding and access to knowledgeable investors are needed. A new PI’s hat is added ( ) for business and investment interactions outside the university along the path to commercialization.
There is feedback between the basic and applied branches. The feedback promotes ideas for new research vectors and enhances student training. Research across the fundamental to the tangible and everything in between promotes creativity. On the dual track of basic + applied, student researchers are exposed to a wider breadth of means and methods than are provided by either basic or applied alone. The applied branch recognizes the fertility of the overlap and the feedback between the basic and the applied. Academia, that is, the PI’s home department at the university, often does not fully engage with the opportunities of the dual track. In its narrow focus, Academia recognizes papers and grants as appropriate “products” but often adopts a more jaundiced view of applied research products such as patents—although Academia almost always recognizes external funding.
Some academics may look down on patents as selling out to commercial interests instead of pure research, but patents are an acknowledgement that research may have real value to society and that there are potential funding sources beyond government agencies. It has been argued that patents are an unbiased acknowledgement of research novelty and creativity.1 Having a paper rejected for publication is difficult, but having a concept rejected by a market because of a published paper is even more difficult.
While investors do not always require patented IP (intellectual property), published research removes most of the advantage for a PI to attract investment. Anyone who can understand a paper can build a company without dealing with university bureaucracy and overhead.
Bayh Dole Act of 19804The Bayh Dole Act2 released intellectual property rights to the universities where the federal government funded the research. The idea was for novel technological innovations to be promoted to accelerate delivery of technologies, to advance economic development, and to support universities financially through licensure of intellectual property. The Bayh Dole Act mandated that federally supported university researchers disclose new inventions to the university.
The unintended consequences of Bayh Dole were several. It placed the obligation for recognizing and promoting new IP opportunities on the PIs. For faculty, this is a somewhat divisive expectation as it conflicts with Academia’s entrenched expectations of papers and grants. Universities inaugurated administrative structures to implement Bayh Dole requirements and oversee conflict of interest (COI). The Bayh Dole Act increased both opportunities and obligations for PIs.
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University Tech Transfer Office (UTTO)4University Tech Transfer Offices (UTTOs) blossomed in the wake of the Bayh Dole Act. UTTOs are remarkably efficient at collecting disclosures and at filing patents. The United States Patent Trademark Office (USPTO) and other patent offices worldwide recognize the inventors as those who were first to file. On the Academia side, the PI must file the patent before publishing in academic journals and presenting research to the community. A provisional patent places a reservation on the IP; however, it must be converted to a patent application within a year. Thus, the bifurcation of the need to protect IP and the need to publish academic research widens. The UTTO is forced to file patents on very early stage ideas that have not yet advanced to any demonstration. Often patents are filed on novel fundamental ideas that would underlie sophisticated technologies.
Typically, UTTOs are not effective at promoting these nascent technologies to potential investors. The number of investors with the technical sophistication to appreciate the idea of the IP is limited. Neither the UTTO nor the broader university research administration has access to resources to further the research needed to develop very early stage IP to a prototype that potential investors will appreciate. The UTTOs at MIT, Stanford, and a few other universities are exceptions.
Federal funding agencies are funded by tax dollars. The mission of US agencies such as the NSF, DOD, DOE, and NIH is to support research at universities to achieve an “educated citizenry” (Thomas Jefferson), to train the next generation of researchers, to bring innovations to the taxpayers, and to promote economic security.
Federal agencies recognize patents and publications as products and provide financial support for both basic and applied research. Early and middle stage grants such as STTRs and SBIRs support development of prototypes and proofs of concept. Rare are grants to support commercialization.
NSF promotes the progress of science by investing in research to expand knowledge in science, engineering, and education. NSF also invests in actions that increase the capacity of the US to conduct and exploit such research.
—From the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 (P. L. 81-507)
A nation that leads the world in science and engineering research and innovation, to the benefit of all, without barriers to participation.
—From the NSF Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years (FY) 2022–2026
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14002/pdf/02_mission_ vision.pdf
With a lack of support within the university for the advancement of technological developments, the PI will sometimes turn outside the university to become the Founder of a company. A company introduces additional complexities for the PI. Various forms of COI can arise as the PI works toward commercialization of technologies conceived at the university under an academic’s hat. These COIs must be carefully managed. In some instances, the UTTO will surrender ownership of the IP to the PI, with the federal agency’s permission. This allows the PI more latitude in developing the technologies but also increases
the PI’s federal reporting requirements. The Founder and company also assume financial responsibilities for patent maintenance and patent prosecution. The bifurcation of Academia and pursuing IP commercialization is a sufficient tax that the PI may become overloaded and the creativity that sparked the original fundamental idea may be extinguished.
In forming a company, the biggest question is how does the PI/Founder best serve the advance to commercialization. The advancement to commercialization is a big hurdle with many questions beyond the PI’s expertise.
There is misalignment in the objectives of Academia and technology advancement. Success in commercialization and licensing requires changes to the roles of the PI and the university to accommodate entities outside Academia. Advancement of IP to commercial success requires an understanding of how technologies are mapped to markets to solve problems, scaled, and commercialized.
There are many steps along the path to successful commercialization, and a PI/Founder will need different collaborators along the path. See Fig. 3. It all starts with a novel idea (1) and validation of that idea (2), typically funded by grants. This stage is often iterative to refine the idea to its best form. PIs are very familiar and comfortable with this part.
The next steps are often outside of the PI’s comfort zone: protecting the IP (3) and validating the market (4). Depending on the funding available for IP protection, these steps can be swapped. If the academic institution has the budget to pursue patents, then protection first is preferrable. If the PI is paying for patents, market validation first may be preferred. In either case, a broad provisional patent can cover all aspects without specific claims and the market validation (4) can determine the best place to focus the claims for a full patent.
The market validation (4) is a combination of discussions with industry experts, a review of current market needs, and talking to potential future partners, potential competitors, and customers. The
validation must determine how much a prospect is willing to spend to solve the problem, and if there is another problem that needs to be solved first or in combination with the new solution. Advice to the Founder: You may find that you only need to build a single feature or you may need to create a new market. An early business advisor with domain expertise will make this process much easier and more credible, but be cautious about finding the right partner. Vet their experience in your market space.
During the market validation, determine if the innovation is a feature, a product, or a company. See below.
The next step is to find an Angel investor (5). The academic institution should facilitate this; see Seeking Better Angels below. Your initial business advisor might become your Angel or know Angels. An Angel may only invest $50K ~ $150k to meet your minimum needs. It might be tempting to take family money at this point, but your family is unlikely to have the domain expertise you need, and you will see them at holidays for the next 20 years. Thanksgiving dinner can be uncomfortable if they are waiting to get their investment back.
With the Angel (5) funding, build the MVP (minimum viable product) (6). This is the minimum feature set that your market validation told you that someone is willing to pay for. This is not the product you really want to build in the end (8 & 10) but it is enough to show that someone will pay for your idea.
While you are building the MVP (6), ideally you will know your first customer (7). A good Angel should provide introductions, but the Founder will need to close the deal. A good first customer will iterate with you to refine the product to meet their needs—but keep an eye on the broader market and focus on your value during this time. The first customer may have some unique requirements that are not needed by everyone. Someone acting in a chief executive officer (CEO) role (this could be your Angel) can manage the relationship with the first customer, while you focus on refining the solution.
Unless you are developing a completely new market, you will need partners (8) along the way to complement your solution, to provide other parts of the ecosystem, and to serve as suppliers. These partners may become sales channels or resellers for you. Good partners can be key resources for a new company.
Once you have a successful MVP and partners, you will need a GoTo-Market (GTM) (9) plan.
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• What is your market segment?
• How do you find the right companies in that segment?
• Who is the right person to work with in those companies?
• What is your pricing?
• How do you justify that price?
• How do you deliver your product or service?
With your MVP, first customer endorsement, and GTM plan, you will need investors if you want to build a full company. (See options below.) Raising money is often a full time job for a Founder, and most academics are not well suited to the task. Asking people to spend investor money is much more difficult than asking government agencies for funds, because investors expect a clear financial return. The right co-founder can share this burden, and the PI can present the technology parts that are so beloved to them. Investors may insist on appointing their own CEO or chief financial officer (CFO) to watch their investment. This is a cost of taking investor money. Angels can help with investors.
Once you have investment, you will need to hire more staff, including technical, sales, sales engineers, support, and more. You will need a roadmap (11) for your future product vision, and then things will get very busy and fun if you do it right. This is a decision point for many Founders: the choice of whether to return to the lab to seek more innovation while providing advice as a chief technology officer (CTO) or to take a daily operational role in the business.
Business press coverage focuses on startup companies that complete an IPO (initial public offering) and gushes over unicorns ($1B value at IPO), but these are very rare (like unicorns). In reality, there are multiple paths with different definitions of commercial success. Each would be entrepreneur should figure out early which of following categories their innovation fits into best.
• Feature – A feature is an enhancement to an existing process or system. For example, modifying semiconductors to be faster or a new approach to improve the efficiency of feedstock chemical production by 1%.
• Product – A product is a system to perform an operation in a new way. The problem is well understood and there are companies already providing a solution in a less effective manner. For example, a new way to verify a person’s identity online.
• Company – A company may be required when the invention is a new solution to a poorly understood or embraced problem. The new approach requires substantial investment in multiple complementary technologies to build a complete solution and market development is required for adoption. For example, Tesla (the car company, not the scientist) integrates technologies and has educated an emerging market.
Most academic PIs will have innovations that are really features and products rather than a full production company. This is good because features and products require much less investment, much less time, and have a faster path to success than building a company. In addition, most academic researchers are not well-suited to managing a company over the long run. Features and products can be licensed to existing players in the industry. Both require a working demonstration of the approach and IP protection to be licensed. For many academics, this is the best path by far.
Few Founders are inclined or equipped to do everything in a startup. It is natural to bring in a CEO, chief operating officer (COO), and CFO along the way—and investors will insist upon them in most cases. The Founder should be the keeper of the tech vision and move into a CTO role…if they want. Alternatively, the Founder can return to core research and be a key technical advisor with a large equity stake.
The Founder needs to be fully engaged at the outset; but they should realize that their role will change as the company grows. (See the “PI Involvement” line in Fig. 3) If the Founder does not plan this path, investors will eventually force it upon them. Identify the exit strategy early.
PIs need to be paired with Angels. Many successful startups have Angel investors who help them get started. Angels are usually successful executives, salespeople, and technologists who have deep understanding of markets and market dynamics. From their experiences, Angels have a rich network of contacts that include prospective clients, suppliers, and domain experts. Angels often have some personal capital to risk and can “write the first check” for investment or know people who can. Angels can bring other Angels.
Even with a patent, all you have is an idea, not an investable company. A PI/Founder cannot take just an idea to venture capitalists for funding. The right Angel can help turn an idea into an investable business.
There are Angel networks like Angel Capital Association, Central Texas Angel Network, Angel Investment Network, Capital Angel Network - Ottawa, and many more that are good starting points to find Angels.
In addition to UTTOs patenting IP, better promotion of the IP is needed. Ultimately, universities will relinquish control of the commercialization and licensing processes.
Universities should connect PIs to Angels. Twice a year, the UTTO can host an “Angel Day” where the ~5 top best vetted ideas are presented to interested Angels. These can be 20 minute presentations via web video. Angel networks can be invited in advance. Rice University’s Business Plan Competition has been successful for the past 23 years and could be used as a partial model, but Rice’s competition is intercollegiate and open to any new company. Instead, universities should focus on commercialization of more nascent research efforts only from their institution.
The university must ensure high quality presentations so that Angels look forward to presentations in ensuing years and thereby increase attendance. Presentations should be vetted by alumni with successful business experience and business school professors who teach entrepreneurship, provided they have demonstrated entrepreneurial success.
Video sessions should be limited to one slide for each of the following:
• Problem – Why anyone in the real world should care and why the problem has not yet been addressed
• Solution – How should this problem be solved?
• Innovation – Why your solution is unique and how you have protected your idea
• Business – What is the market potential for your solution?
• What you need – Current status and what help you need
Limiting the slides to 32 point font and only 6 lines per slide helps focus the message. This can be difficult for many presenters—it is easy to get lost in the details—but it provides the correct content level for the Angel investors.
Thomas Edison is credited with the statement, “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” Academia is expected to provide the first 1%, but needs to acknowledge the effort required for the remaining 99% and that most of that effort will come from outside the university. Successful commercialization of innovation requires early assistance from the university, but very quickly control must be surrendered to commercial partners. Angel investors with commercial domain expertise and understanding of market dynamics are key for success.
Institutions need to provide the initial credible components to Angels with a clean handoff and then step back. At the same time, the university needs to provide some accommodation and recognition for the PI’s role in a new venture.
The answer to the initial question, Is commercialization of intellectual property in an academic environment feasible? remains unclear. Given the misaligned objectives of Academia and commercialization, coupled with the constraints of Academia, the current structure is unlikely to lead to success in commercialization and licensing. Recognition of the need to replace the established structures is needed. Acknowledgement of the steps along the path to commercialization and adoption of new ideas and methods are required if commercialization of intellectual property in an academic environment is to succeed.
With thanks to:
is a Fellow of ECS. She holds ~30 US patents in various electrochemical technologies, all of which evolved from fundamental ideas. Much of the IP was transferred to her by the University. Enter her brother, Bill.
Bill Leddy has broad expertise in computer systems, product management, and is a survivor of more than 10 VC-backed companies. He formed RE-WD, LLC to promote commercialization
For large-scale energy storage, flow batteries present many advantages. These benefits include, but are not limited to, decoupling power rating from energy capacity and projected lower cost energy storage and long cycle life. Several reviews1-3 and a comprehensive handbook4 have become available recently describing the various flow battery chemistries and the details of cell and stack construction. However, none of the chemistries proposed are perfect and the commercialization path to widespread adoption remains challenging. For the purposes of this article, we will take a closer look at the concept and development of an all-iron slurry flow battery and the intellectual property (IP) protection and commercialization process that occurred within an academic environment.
In 1981 Hruska and Savinell reported on an experimental study of an all-iron flow battery.5 Besides being low cost and utilizing sustainable active materials, the all-iron flow battery does not necessitate stringent membrane requirements because crossover of active species from one compartment to the other only represent a temporary loss of efficiency and capacity. The 1981 paper did not garner significant interest until about three decades later. Now, demand for large-scale and long-duration energy storage has increased, which has been driven by the introduction of renewable energy sources.
A schematic of the all-iron hybrid flow battery is shown in Fig. 1. This version of the flow battery, like that in the early Hruska and Savinell paper, is a hybrid version of a redox flow battery in that while the positive reaction uses only dissolved reactants, metallic iron is plated into the negative compartment; thus, the energy storage
capacity is limited by the stack volume. Savinell and Wainright and their students returned to research on this system in 2010. James Mellentine6 repeated some of the earlier charge/discharge experiments and developed a rough cost analysis of the technology in his MS thesis research. Krista Hawthorne performed studies on ironligand complexes to stabilize the ferric ion,7 studied factors affecting the iron plating reaction,8 and also investigated electrode structures to increase the plating density and efficiency for the negative electrode.9 Other groups also started to investigate the all-iron flow battery system, and a summary of this work has been published.10,11
To overcome the limitations of the hybrid configuration, we proposed a design to decouple the energy storage capacity from the power-conversion capacity. We did this by introducing a conductive carbon slurry suspended in the negative electrolyte. A schematic of the concept is shown in Fig. 2. The key concept of this approach was to deposit the metal onto the particles of the slurry instead of onto the negative current collector.
By doing this, the deposited metal/carbon particles can be circulated and stored in the external tank along with the negative electrolyte. The energy storage capacity can then be increased by increasing the negative slurry electrolyte volume without requiring an increase in stack size. The US Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) supported a seedling project to demonstrate the concept. Based on promising results from the seedling project, they continued to support the development of this concept aimed at finding lower cost
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materials and then scaling up to a full-size prototype. Fig. 3 shows the development scope of the project, and much of the research was aimed at solving specific operating problems (electrolyte rebalancing, flow distribution, pump specification, etc.) and reducing materials cost (carbon powder, membrane, positive electrode material, etc.). Of course, some research did focus on understanding slurry performance and predicting what physical and transport properties are important for efficient operation.12,13 An article describing some of development challenges of this technology has been recently published.14
Clearly this technology was and is at an early stage of development. ARPA-E support was ideal for this type of project, one which focuses on demonstrating a concept and scaling it to a prototype so that commercial developers with more resources can take the innovative technology to market. Besides providing the financial resources to carry out the work, ARPA-E required milestones to keep the research on track and focused. Also, the ARPA-E program manager took an active role in following the development and providing guidance along the way. But, because milestones designed for producing a product dominated the evaluation of the project, there was little opportunity to focus on understanding problems; instead the emphasis was on quickly finding solutions to those problems. ARPA-E also provided a technology to market (T2M) support person to help guide goalmaking to ensure that those goals were commercially meaningful. In our case, the T2M manager also provided valuable assistance in identifying vendors and supply-chain opportunities. In general, there was adequate financial support to carry out the work. However, as the project progressed, the requirement for cost-sharing increased. This turned out to be quite a distraction in an academic institution that has a mission where commercializing technology is of secondary importance.
The concept of the slurry all-iron flow battery was filed for a patent by Case Western Reserve University, which was granted in 2017.15 This patent was analyzed as a case study by Taylor and Inman in a previous Interface article.16 During the development of the slurry electrode concept, additional technology was developed for the battery system as a whole. A coated microporous separator17 was invented that is not ionically selective but provides high ionic conductivity while preventing hydraulic crossover of liquids across the separator. A device for rebalancing the electrolyte was invented which operates similarly to a fuel cell but without the fuel-cell structure and associated costs.18 This device is used to capture the negative electrode hydrogen side-product released during charge and react it with the resulting excess ferric ion in the positive electrolyte. Finally, cell designs for improving slurry flow distribution into the negative half-cell were filed as a patent.19 The initial patent is primary
to the concept of the slurry electrode all-iron flow battery, while the other three patents are supportive, and they can also apply to other flow battery systems.
The results of university research need to be translated into commercial applications to fully benefit society. The University Technology Transfer Office (UTTO) plays a critical role in this translation. As such, it might be useful to discuss the IP process of the university. Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) has a well-documented process and a set of policies in place regarding IP protection. These processes and policies are likely similar to other US research universities. The CWRU process has eight primary steps:
1. Inventor(s) file a disclosure of the idea with supporting data. The UTTO has templates to guide the disclosure preparation.
2. The inventor(s) meet with the UTTO about applications, markets, technical status, potential licensees, and other matters that the UTTO will need to decide about next steps.
3. The UTTO decides whether to pursue the proposed invention and to further explore potential markets, patentability, and whether the value proposition is in the best interest of the university.
4. The UTTO decides on patent protection.
5. The inventor(s) interact with IP team on drafting provisional patent(s).
6. The UTTO seeks licensees and partners to commercialize the IP.
7. The inventor(s) interact with IP lawyers regarding patent claims.
8. The UTTO negotiates license(s) in consultation with the inventor(s). Multiple licenses may be granted for defined fields of use or geographical constraints. There are some additional CWRU policies and UTTO practices that also apply. For example, the university has 120 days to decide to pursue or not to pursue filing a patent. However, the UTTO and inventor(s) can mutually agree to delay the decision, for example, if they feel additional data might be useful. If the decision is to pursue, then the UTTO will initiate filing a provisional patent, and
may also convert it to a PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) filing. This gives the UTTO an additional 30 months to find licensees to help cover the cost of patenting. If the UTTO decides not to pursue the patent, then the inventor(s) can seek release of the IP. If the work was supported by the federal government, then the government agency is involved in the release process. A provisional patent alone is not very expensive—the cost is often in the range of $2,500 to $3,500. However, full patent protection can be expensive. A US Utility Patent can cost much more, on the order of $10,000 to $15,000 plus an additional $2,500 for the PCT. International patents can become quite costly, for example $50,000, or even more if translation services are needed. Consequently, the UTTO works closely with potential licensees to determine the extent of IP protection that makes sense for the technology and the markets.
Budgeting for patent costs can be prohibitive in many universities. Although ARPA-E funding requires that a portion of the award be used for commercialization activities, including patent costs, these funds were not sufficient for our needs. Consequently, it is important to identify and negotiate licenses to entities that are willing to partner to bring the technology to the market. IP license agreements often include the following requirements for the licensee:
• Reimburse the cost of IP protection.
• Agree to field of use and geographical rights.
• Pay an up-front fee or give an equity position in the company.
• Negotiated technical milestones and timing of them.
• Negotiated business milestones and timing of them.
• Negotiation of milestone payments.
• Agreement on negotiated royalties or equity amounts.
• Lawsuit protection/indemnification for the university (always a requirement).
• Negotiated rules of engagement around patent prosecution and infringement.
• Negotiated rules for sublicenses.
Universities often share income from IP with the inventors, and the amount varies. In the case of CWRU, for the first $100k of income, after recovery of expenses (patent costs, etc.), the remaining revenue is split equally between the inventor pool and the university. The inventor pool distribution is based on the contribution of each inventor as identified in the IP disclosure or agreed upon by the inventors. For revenue beyond $100k, a 15% administrative charge is taken by the UTTO to support its activities. The balance is split equally between the inventor pool and the university. The university portion is often reinvested into research, and sometimes might be shared between the central administrative operation and the schools and departments of the inventors.
Of course, a key element for a UTTO to pursue a technology is to identity and come to an agreement with a third party that has the resources and expertise to move the technology forward and to finance the IP protection. The UTTO primarily relies on the inventors identifying potential licensees, but our UTTO personnel also have their own networks. In the case of the slurry all-iron flow battery, it was especially challenging because the technology was early stage and had several design and scale-up issues associated with the shearthinning rheology of the slurry electrode, current distribution, and a side reaction during charge. Consequently, a successful developer needed a variety of engineering skills. We had discussions with multiple companies and venture capital firms. However, as would be expected, most required more data demonstrating longer-term operation which was beyond what we could provide. There was a continual conflict here between the university’s educational mission of training graduate students and conducting experiments that were suitable for publishing their results in the open literature, versus performing repetitive, long-term tests of a single battery configuration.
Ultimately, CWRU did negotiate a license with an Australian company called Fusion Energy Group (FEG). FEG was willing to
take the risk of raising funds to develop a product and was open to joint ventures with larger companies. One of the problems we encountered was that restrictions due to COVID-19 hit Australian companies hard, and raising funds became quite difficult. During this time, the FEG team and the inventors stopped communicating details about technology transfer and progress. Eventually this was resolved by a visit to the US by a new company Chairman, and both teams are now working much closer together. The FEG group has made considerable progress in developing a commercial system based on this technology and is actively raising capital to bring that system to market.
The road from a technical concept to a product is a long and often tortuous one. We have tried to give a sense of the path, process, and challenges of a specific case we have been involved in during recent years. However, there are many other university researchers who have much more experience at doing this than we do, and we encourage those going down this path to reach out for advice. Several years ago, a lecture was delivered at CWRU by Professor Robert Langer of MIT about moving lab results to market. He talked about three elements: 1. Having a platform technology, 2. Protecting the IP, and 3. Publishing an article about it in a high-profile journal. Our conclusion upon thinking about our work is that his advice is very sound and insightful.
This work was performed under ARPA-E contract DEAR0000352. We would like to especially express our appreciation for the active participation and guidance given by the ARPA-E team including all the program directors and the T2M officers who all work so very hard to bring new energy technologies to society. And of course, to the ARPA-E leadership for providing the environment for high-risk energy translational research to be possible.
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Robert F. Savinell, Distinguished University Professor, George S. Dively Professor of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
Education: BChE (CSU) and MS and PhD in chemical engineering (University of Pittsburgh). Research Interests: Fundamental science and mechanistic issues of electrochemical processes, and electrochemical technology systems and device design, development, modeling, and optimization. His research has addressed applications for energy conversion, energy storage, sensing, and electrochemical materials extraction and synthesis.
Work Experience: Prior to joining CWRU in 1986, he was a research engineer at Diamond Shamrock Corporation and then a faculty member of the University of Akron. He served as director of the Ernest B. Yeager Center for Electrochemical Sciences at CWRU for ten years and served as Dean of Engineering at CWRU for seven years. In 2018 he was awarded by the DOE a four-year Emerging Frontiers Research Center grant and directs the EFRC on Breakthrough Electrolytes on Energy Storage (BEES), which was renewed for another four years in 2022.
Honors & Awards: Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry, 2020 Frank and Dorothy Humel Prize (CWRU), 2022 Vittorio De Nora Award (ECS), 2023 Chemical Pioneer Award (American Institute of Chemists).
Work with ECS: Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Fellow of the Electrochemical Society.
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Jesse S. Wainright, Research Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Case Western Reserve University Education: PhD in chemical engineering (CWRU). Research Interests: Electrochemical power sources—fuel cells, batteries, and electrochemical double-layer capacitors. All aspects of these devices are considered, from high-level system models to the development of novel electrolytes, and to fundamental studies of proton conduction and redox reactions. His current research interests are the development of implantable electrodes for neural stimulation and nerve block, and novel stack designs and chemistries for PEM fuel cells and redox flow batteries.
Work Experience: Prior to joining CWRU as a researcher, he spent seven years with Standard Oil (later BP America) in their research division.
Pubs + Patents: He has authored or co-authored over 75 papers and 15 patents relating to electrochemistry and electrochemical engineering.
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Commercializing a new technology in any of the hard science fields rewards the inventors with the satisfaction of seeing their idea have a real and meaningful impact on the world. As scientists and engineers, we often focus on the process of technology discovery, celebrating both incremental and disruptive discovery. While this is an important part of the technology story, there is more to the story in terms of advancing from concept to commercialization.
This article will follow the path from initial scientific discovery to product concept and eventual commercialization. We will utilize the history of new nanocrystalline metal materials made by electrodeposition at Xtalic as a case study for what worked and what didn’t work.
Many new technologies fail to bridge the gap between discovery or first product concept and full commercialization. This type of failure is especially true in products based on “hard science.” By sharing what worked and what didn’t work along the way we can try to improve the fraction of products that make it to full commercialization.
University researchers are constantly pushing the boundaries to grow the fundamental understanding of basic science. For metallurgical science, we have known for more than 1,000 years that by making the crystal domains (i.e., grains) smaller we can have a significant impact on the properties of metals. Properties like hardness, wear durability, toughness, magnetism, and corrosion response can all be impacted by engineering the grain size.
Metallurgists have traditional approaches to making grains smaller which can be effective. These methods focus on processes like heat treating and cold deformation to add the energy required to offset the fundamental increase in energy that materials experience as we add more grain boundary surface area and defects into the structure.
Prof. Christopher A. Schuh, working in the labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), made a series of discoveries about plating nanocrystalline alloys. These focused on periodic pulse reverse plating of alloys and a more fundamental understanding of the energy impacts of alloy selection. The alloy nickel-tungsten worked particularly well and has become a highly researched alloy system in metallurgy.1,2,3
Schuh and his lab discovered that during electrodeposition, atoms in certain alloying systems self-assemble in a way such that solute atoms selectively segregate to the grain boundaries of the solvent host. These segregated solute atoms act not unlike a surfactant, wetting the grain boundaries and occupying grain boundary space. As the concentration of solute atoms increases, more grain boundary volume is required to accommodate them, and the grain size shrinks to make more grain boundary volume. Because the grain boundary site is thermodynamically favored, the solute atoms reside on the boundary, effectively pinning its location and stabilizing the reduced grain size.4,5 These small grains impede dislocation motion, leading to a boost in hardness, wear, and toughness.
Malik Wagih, a PhD candidate with Prof. Schuh at the time, worked with Schuh to further develop the thermodynamic model and to demonstrate that the segregation enthalpy is not a fixed single value but rather a distribution of values related to the enthalpy variations that exist depending on the lattice or grain boundary site they occupy. Wagih further proved that the energy distribution can
be modeled as a three-parameter Gaussian distribution, as shown in Fig. 1, where the distribution for tungsten in nickel is plotted. The three factors describe the breadth, shape, and centroid of the distribution, substantially simplifying the computational intensity for simulating atomic distributions.
Schuh and his co-authors also discovered that periodic pulse reverse waveforms, on the time scale on tens of milliseconds, allow for control of the nanocrystalline alloy co-deposition.7 Since various elements and species have different deposition potentials, the use of the periodic pulse reverse allows for variable deposition and stripping rates depending on the waveform employed. Further, varying the waveform during the deposition process enables either layered structures with variable composition or the ability to create a functionally graded composition through the thickness.
A technological discovery in the labs provides the foundation for the innovation around a product concept. Somewhere along the line engineers connect the dots between the new scientific discovery and how it might be applied to a product in some new and innovative way.
In the case of the nanocrystalline metals coming out of the Schuh labs, the nickel tungsten alloy seemed promising as a hard and durable surface finish.
After ideation of the initial product concept, an investor and business development leader should consider these questions about the products and markets.
• What are the special challenges of commercializing a new physical science–based technology?
• How strong and durable is your value proposition?
• Who is the best commercialization partner?
• How can you perform price discovery?
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With a technology like electroplating, one of the core challenges is that the product technology is part of a larger product offering. Those products often have long and expensive build cycles which are accompanied by long and expensive product qualification test protocols. As such the new technology implementor may be somewhat beholden to the end user for their unique capability to build and test the final product configuration.
Sometimes this issue can be partially overcome by identifying the product technology requirement in a suitable test vehicle that is easier and simpler to produce and test. This approach allows for a faster design-build-test cycle and thus more opportunities for iterative improvement in the product development cycle. This improvement is critical in identifying the key performance indicators of the technology and whether the approach is valid for the application of interest. Derisking tests should be implemented as quickly as possible to identify any technology applications where the limitations of the technology could prohibit full implementation.
With success on a test vehicle, we can move to a product validation test. Although these tests can be long, they are critical to help identify hidden product requirements that were previously unknown at the early test-vehicle stage. These can be functional requirements like ductility, toughness, or corrosion, or a physical characteristic like color, appearance, density, or roughness. These hidden requirements are particularly problematic when the new technology is displacing an existing solution, as the requirement may have been implicit to the existing method or materials.
Any new technology that comes to market will prevail and flourish only if there is a strong value proposition. This can come in the form of cost savings, size reduction, performance improvement, sustainability improvement, process yield, or new feature enablement. While the new technology can cost more than the existing solution, the new solution must deliver more value to the customer. Understanding the value proposition and who truly benefits from that value are critical to understanding whether the product has a durable future in the market.
Here is an example of where we got it wrong and where we got it right with our nanocrystalline nickel alloy commercialization and value proposition.
In 2006, the European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (EU RoHS) legislation was coming into effect, and it included a provision to ban hexavalent chromium. Hexavalent chromium is the prevalent form of chromium in plating electrolytes. Massive research at the time explored potential alternatives to chromium plating, which was high performing, inexpensive, and widely deployed. The trivalent version of chromium plating was the closest alternative but still lacked all the performance attributes of the hexavalent versions.
A nanocrystalline nickel tungsten alloy could be plated bright, tough, and corrosion resistant, competing with chromium finish in the performance category. It seemed like replacing chromium plating on automotive parts could have a good value proposition because the new technology had equivalent performance and was superior in terms of environmental performance and worker safety. A key performance indicator for this application is the robustness of the coating during exposure to the harsh conditions an automotive bumper may experience in use. Fig. 2 shows the performance in a gravelometer rock-impact test of a nanocrystalline Ni-W–coated automotive bumper according to the American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM D3170). Gravel was accelerated onto the surface of a plated component prior to exposure to salt-spray corrosion. The test measures the ability of the coating to adhere and to survive rock
impact without corrosion. The nanocrystalline Ni-W layer performed well, passing the test.
The customer in this application wanted a shiny and corrosion resistant bumper. Chromium plating met their expectations for performance and cost. As such, the customer did not want to pay more for a chromium-free solution. The manufacturer had learned how to plate chromium in a way that was acceptable from a health and safety perspective. Further, the EU RoHS legislation allowed for an exemption for hard chromium plating so there was no longer a strong motivation for the customer to move away from chromium. The potential customers were grateful to have a ready-to-use solution in their library, but none found enough durable value to pay the additional cost for a chromium-free solution. Depending on a regulation as a value proposition can lead to delays in implementation or a loss of market.
The nanocrystalline nickel alloy found a durable value proposition in the industry of electrical connector manufacturing. Electrical connectors use various plated layers to provide engineering functionality to surfaces. Use of gold is rampant in the connector industry because it provides stable electrical performance and good corrosion resistance and is easily plated. To avoid corrosion from the base metal, normally copper, a nickel barrier layer is plated between the copper and the gold layers.
Replacing the nickel layer with a thinner layer of nanocrystalline nickel-tungsten provided improved corrosion performance, provided equivalent or better diffusion control, and created a harder support base for the gold under mechanical-wear conditions. These three factors combined to allow for a thinner gold-plated layer.8
The value proposition in this case is clear: (1) reduced gold consumption substantially reduces cost and (2) reduced gold consumption substantially reduces the carbon footprint of the manufacturer, as gold plating is significantly energy intensive.9 Product performance testing showed the nanocrystalline material performed as well or better than the existing nickel solution, even when the gold was reduced by 67%, as shown in Fig. 3. The cost savings generated by reduced gold consumption provides a durable value proposition to the electrical connector customers.
Unless the technology will be produced as an original equipment manufacturer (OEM), a commercialization partner is needed to commercialize and generate revenue. Using the case study of the electrical connector application shown above, identifying the right potential connector partner is the next key objective. A great commercialization partner has the following attributes:
• They value innovation and have a track record of implementing new technologies, especially in electroplating.
• They agree with the value proposition and will directly experience the value.
• They have a champion in the business who can help overcome obstacles during implementation.
• They can serve as a beachhead to prove the technology, which can then be further implemented in that industry.
In the connector industry, gold usage was highest in the computer networking segment and a world leader in that segment is Amphenol. Amphenol is well equipped with captive and procured electroplating production facilities, enabling them to implement an alternative quickly. Xtalic and Amphenol partnered to bring the nanocrystalline nickel-tungsten alloy to market. The champion at Amphenol was the business unit leader who shared our vision for value sharing and could marshal the needed internal resources when an implementation hurdle arose.
Nanocrystalline Ni-W was implemented at Amphenol in 2010, and since then has produced more than 3 metric tons of reduced gold consumption. The lower gold consumption has also led to a simultaneous reduction in carbon footprint from the reduced gold use, equivalent to 78 million kg of carbon dioxide.
Understanding the value that the new technology offers is paramount to developing the pricing strategy. Analyzing how the customer perceives the value enables a pricing model that can capitalize on the value creation that is greater than any alternative solutions. We can compare below the two cases for nanocrystalline nickel markets.
In this case, the existing solution was a low-cost chromium plating. The key value proposition was that the nanocrystalline nickel alloy could be made using a safer approach in manufacturing and would overcome the pending legislative ban on hexavalent chromium.
When it became evident that the legislative aspect of the value proposition was no longer valid, the value created to the end customer was lowered and hence the pricing
had to be even lower. In fact, we learned that a customer has no tolerance to pay more for a chromium-free bumper, and thus the commercialization pathway was not viable as the cost for nanocrystalline nickel plating is higher than chromium plating.
The primary value proposition in this case was a cost savings effort. Gold was a significant contributor in the cost of the bill of materials and reducing that line item had strong value. The gold layer was partially replaced by a nickel-containing layer (the new technology). The costs for the nickel were low and the savings for gold reduction were high. This combination created a value-sharing pricing opportunity that matched the value proposition.
There are often competitive solutions, so it is imperative to understand what other options might be viable. Ask your lead customer what other options they have tried and not selected. Why was an alternate solution not implemented?
Other questions of importance are: Are there other impediments to implementation that may partially erode your value proposition, like requalification testing and validation of performance? There may be hidden costs of switching to a new solution that should be considered, and the beachhead customer can help identify them. Is there new equipment or processing costs associated with the new technology? For the implementation of nanocrystalline nickel alloys we required the use of a pulse-plating rectifier, which is not all that common in the electrical connector sector. This equipment represents a relatively small one-time investment for each plating line, but it is a barrier, nonetheless. We needed a champion who was willing to take the risk on making the investment.
A word about cost. The price of a new technology is not directly related to the cost of that technology. The product should be priced
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based upon the inherent value that it brings to the solution. Of course, if the price is not greater than the cost then the solution is not viable. When a new technology solution is new to the world, there may be little track record on which to base your estimation of cost. Scaling the production from low volume can help reduce the risk in this transition period.
The scientists and engineers at MIT have produced a methodology for predicting the formation of nanostructured metal alloys. What started as a model for binary alloy identification has evolved to understand how atoms communicate with each other and selfassemble into high-performing nanostructured alloys.
The model has continued to evolve and now includes treatments for the impact of segregation on grain boundary cohesion.10 Making grains small through alloy segregation is generally favored but not when the segregating solute leads to a significant reduction in grain boundary cohesion strength. The fundamental science now allows us to predict which solutes will boost grain boundary cohesion and which may be deleterious.
Some of the latest work has expanded the predictions into the ternary alloy space. This expansion has required an evolution from understanding how a solute atom interacts with the solvent host to now include how solute atoms interact with each other, potentially competing for low energy sites in the atomic lattice.11 While ternary alloys are inherently more difficult to electroplate and control than a binary alloy, the potential benefits of these alloys encourage continued investment into their research and development.
There are few things more satisfying to an engineer or scientist than seeing their original idea or concept bloom into a real product that has an impact on the world. The basic science developed in the labs at MIT has shown the ability to predict and design nanostructured metal materials based upon the fundamentals of thermodynamics.
When it comes to the process of commercializing ideas from the university labs, the case studies presented here show that we need to:
• Validate the fundamental science to understand the key components and know they are sound.
• Understand the special challenges involved in implementation in the physical sciences technology space.
• Develop the value proposition and test it frequently. There may be more than one.
• Identify the best beachhead partner for implementation.
• Analyze all potential solutions when doing price discovery.
©The Electrochemical Society. DOI: 10.1149/2.F09233IF
Robert D. Hilty, Vice President of Research and Development, Xtalic Corporation
Education: BS in Mechanical Engineering (Temple University) and PhD in Materials Science and Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).
Research Interests: Nanotechnology, Metallurgy, Organizational leadership, Intellectual property Work Experience: Joined Xtalic as VP of Research and Development in January 2015. Prior to joining Xtalic, he spent 20 years at Tyco Electronics/AMP in various roles, including plating development, materials research, product development, and executive technology leadership.
Pubs + Patents: 30+ technical papers and presentations, 28 granted patents.
Website: www.xtalic.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2507-2492
Tom Clay, CEO of Xtalic Corporation
Education: BA in Mathematics (Princeton University) and an MBA with high distinction (Baker Scholar) (Harvard Business School).
Work Experience: Joined Xtalic as CEO in March 2008. Prior to joining Xtalic, he spent 10 years growing another successful MIT startup, Z Corporation, from early commercialization phase to market leadership in the 3D printing space. Tom served Z Corporation as president, CEO, and board member. He is a former Airborne Ranger and led reconnaissance teams while stationed at Fort Bragg (Fort Liberty), North Carolina.
Website: www.xtalic.com
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An article in National Geographic (to educate the public) describes agriculture as “the art and science of cultivating the soil, growing crops, and raising livestock.”1 But what is the relationship between agriculture and electrochemical technologies? The relationship is not obvious from the presented definition, and perhaps this is one of the most difficult challenges in translating electrochemical technologies into the agriculture market: “the lag in education about the impact of electrochemical technologies in the field.” This educational gap in turn leads to a lack of (1) investment and resources needed for translational research and technology adoption; (2) effective mechanisms to derisk investment in innovation (e.g., addressing barriers to adoption); (3) a workforce prepared to translate and operate such technologies; (4) policy, legal infrastructure, and holistic business growth models (social, economic, and environmental growth); and (5) diverse and inclusive leadership, or “agents of change,” to transition the technologies into the market. These barriers, among others, are some of the challenges that the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production (CASFER) aims to address to transform agricultural practices in the US and the world.2
CASFER, an NSF ERC Gen-4 launched in August of 2022, follows the ERC model with a flagship investment from the NSF of $51 million over 10 years. Industry collaboration and technology transfer are key under the ERC model.3 Industry and other practitioner organizations are actively involved in the ERCs at the very early stage (articulation of the vision) and during operation in activities such as: participation in strategic planning, joint research, providing input into workforce development programs, mentoring students, and engagement in proof-of-concept testbeds. All these activities and engagement are key to accelerating technology transfer and to transitioning technologies from the lab to the market, while training an effective workforce for industry.3
What is key in CASFER (and the Gen-4 ERC model) is that it is driven by a transformational vision, which requires a systemengineered solution, the convergence of a multidisciplinary team, infrastructure, partners, engineering workforce development programs, a culture of inclusion to ensure deep collaboration of a diverse community of stakeholders, and a vibrant innovation ecosystem. The vision drives the technological expertise needed in the research team, while testbeds (proof of concept) at different scales identify gaps and needs in the research at the applied (technology level) and at the fundamental level. It took the CASFER leadership five years of planning and building a team to align with its vision. CASFER is led by Texas Tech University with partner academic institutions Georgia Tech, Case Western Reserve University, Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in partnership with industry.
The NSF ERC program, launched in 1984, is considered the “largest and most ambitious engineering program in the history of the NSF.”4 These Centers “drive discovery, dissemination, and deployment of transformational knowledge and technologies.”5 One of their goals is to transfer revolutionary technologies to their industrial partners, which form a key part of the Centers’ innovation
ecosystem. The NSF funds Centers in the US for up to 10 years. Since the program launched, NSF has funded 75 ERCs,6 leading to numerous successes (as of 2020):6 2,568 invention disclosures, 884 patents, 1,379 licenses, and 240 spinoff companies.5 As of 2018, 13,614 degrees at all levels were granted to ERC students, with 59% of graduates entering industry.4 The ERC model has been well accepted by industry as it offers many benefits4,7 that have led to strong industry support; for example, in 2018, the financial engagement of 596 industrial members in 19 active ERCs was reported.4 As of August 2022, there are 15 ERCs supported by the NSF.6
Most recently (2020), NSF launched the fourth generation of the Centers: the Gen-4 ERCs. The Gen-4 NSF ERC program “supports convergent research, education, and technology translation at US universities that will lead to strong societal impacts.”6 This article describes the opportunities to transform agricultural practices in the US and the world, translating electrochemical innovation to impact society, supported by the NSF ERC program, using CASFER as an example. The content of the sections: Vision, Research and Testbeds, Innovation Ecosystem, and Other Components has been generated from resources such as CASFER’s webpage,2 CASFER’s strategic plan, and CASFER’s updates to stakeholders (CASFER’s factsheet8), for which the author of this article is CASFER’s Principal Investigator and Center Director.
CASFER strives to solve one of the most pressing problems facing humankind, how do we feed the growing world population, while protecting and sustaining our environment? The world population is expected to exceed 10.5 billion by 2050, increasing the demand for food by 70%, but only an additional 10% of land is available for agriculture.9 To meet this demand, the world requires intensified cultivation of cropland to increase output and to reduce the impacts from input-intensive agricultural systems9 that rely on the utilization of synthetic nitrogen-based-fertilizer (NBF, the active form of N) for the formation of plant proteins, produced by the Haber Bosch (HB) process in the form of ammonia, the model of which is depicted in Fig. 1a. Over 50% of the world’s food production depends on synthetic NBF,10 while the ammonia global market size is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 6.51% from 2022 to 2030.11
Although the HB process supplements natural N sources and ensures an abundance of NBFs in the form of ammonia and other synthetic NBF forms, the high volatility of prices due to externalities remains a challenge in the US and in developing countries. Synthetic fertilizer produced by the HB process is carbon intensive (e.g., ~2.9 ton of CO2 emitted per ton of NH3 produced12) and relies on hydrocarbon conversion for the source of hydrogen. Furthermore, in current agricultural processes most active N is lost; only 20% of the NBFs produced are ultimately translated into food production, with the balance lost to the environment, causing ecological disasters and negative socioeconomic impacts.13-14 The US Environmental Protection Agency considers nitrogen pollution one of “America’s
most widespread, costly, and challenging environmental problems,”15 with economic impacts exceeding $100B/year in both the US and the EU.16
In addition to the NBFʼs losses to the environment which do not translate into food, the current industrial NBF production process has some drawbacks (see Fig. 1a) such as a long supply chain: (1) engineers and operators produce it in centralized facilities; (2) business developers sell the fertilizer raw chemicals to distributors; (3) specialists buy the chemicals and sell those in formulations; (4) small distributors/retailers work directly with farmers to recommend doses, formulations, etc. This all leads to a disconnect between NBF manufacturers (workers in the HB process) and farmers, which increases the costs associated with transportation, logistics, and the supply chain.
In summary, society requires new ways to produce NBFs for food, with minimized environmental and socioeconomic impacts. These new ways must be cost-effective, resilient, and secure. CASFER’s vision is to enable resilient and sustainable food production by developing next-generation, modular, distributed, and efficient technology for capturing, recycling, and producing NBF.2 CASFER’s vision is depicted in Fig. 1b, focusing on an engineered system that delivers NBF from waste resources (e.g., concentrated animal feeding operations, municipal wastewater treatment plants, fertilizer runoffs, food waste, etc.). CASFER’s vision is a transformational change “from nitrogen cycle pollution to Nitrogen Circular Economy (NCE),”13 from a linear economy (based solely on economic growth) to a circular economy with multidimensional growth: social, environmental, and economic (SEE).14
Because CASFER focuses on circularity of nitrogen, which consists of the implementation of waste streams for NBF production,
there is also the opportunity to leverage CASFER’s platform technologies to recover phosphorus (producing phosphorus-based fertilizer, PBF), nutrients, and other resources from waste streams that improve plant growth.
CASFER’s vision addresses human, social, economic, and environmental sustainability.8 CASFER is developing precise, commercial grade–like NBFs from waste streams and transforming standard practices of applying manure waste to fields (which creates environmental emissions due to the lack of predictability in composition required for precise dosing to crops).8 CASFER employs an organic but synthetic approach (OSA) to NBF, with ingredients, predictability, and reliability designed to stimulate plant growth.8 CASFER technologies require the convergence of nanotechnology, electrochemical science (for modularity, synthesis, and separations), data science, biology, chemistry, environmental and agricultural science, health science, policy, and economics, and will confront economic pressures, logistics issues, public and industry acceptance, and regulatory and safety issues.8
CASFER’s research is designed to achieve the vision and to deliver the CASFER engineered system, a modular, distributed, decarbonized NBF production process with the capacity to leverage other resources in waste streams producing phosphorus-based fertilizer (PBF), nutrients, and other resources that improve plant growth.2,8 CASFER’s research is coordinated through three thrusts with the following goals:2,8 (1) To develop multidimensional models (social, economic, environmental, and policy) to support the nitrogen circular economy, and to create the advanced monitoring network and
control algorithms for CASFER’s engineered system; (2) To create modular, electrified, and distributed separation technologies that enable circular use and delivery of nitrogen-based fertilizer while optimizing phosphorus-based fertilizer circularity; and (3) To develop catalytic technologies to synthesize nitrogen and phosphorus-based fertilizer from recovered and alternative resources using distributed, modular reactors powered with renewable electricity. This thrust also focuses on methodologies to deliver fertilizers and formulations to the farmers. As reflected above, a common factor in CASFER’s engineered system is electrification, which relies on electrochemical science and technology.
The CASFER model differs significantly from typical research grants in its integration of system-level testbeds which are designed to address barriers at the society level (e.g., regulation and safety concerns, public and industry acceptance, scale-up to delivery, an insufficiently trained workforce, costs of logistics and distribution, low agricultural producer profitability, and lack of a legal framework) thereby derisking the investment needed for market entrance. CASFER’s model implements testbeds not only for proof of concept and to determine and assess minimum viable product, but also to modify the research projects, and to train the workforce needed for the design, construction, and operation of CASFER’s new process for NBF delivery. CASFER testbeds are mobile units (systems assembled in trailers, skid-mobile units) that integrate the technologies for the different thrusts: separations, electrocatalysts, reactors, sensors, and control algorithms.2 An example of a CASFER testbed is depicted in Fig. 2. CASFER’s testbeds are also designed to evaluate the different types of fertilizer formulations that are produced by CASFER, first at the greenhouse level, and then at the field level, utilizing the agricultural facilities of CASFER academic institutions2,8 (Texas Tech University and Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University) and industry partners. More details about different CASFER’s testbeds can be found in the reference.2
CASFER’s Innovation Ecosystem is the path for the translation of technologies into the market, enabling successful transitioning of processes and technologies to industry; providing guidance and metrics to catalyze investment to support the bridge from CASFER innovation to commercialization; uniting diverse communities of stakeholders2 and the CASFER-trained workforce; and ensuring
that CASFER remains adaptive and aware of the most current technical, societal, and regulatory gaps and barriers. CASFER offers opportunities for small, medium, and large industry partners. Fig. 3 presents the different types of companies that form CASFER’s value chain. CASFER’s stakeholder network includes innovation partners (industrial partners), agricultural cooperatives, investors, facilitators, a regulatory advisory board, and society visionary champions.2 The industrial partners play a significant role in guiding CASFER through advisory boards, providing input in the strategic plan, mentoring students, engaging in joint research projects, participating in proofof-concept testbeds, etc.
In addition to the vision, research, testbeds, and innovation ecosystem, translation of technology to market requires engineering workforce development,2,8 a culture of inclusion for deep collaboration among diverse stakeholders,2,8 and a strong management plan and infrastructure.2,8 CASFER’s engineering workforce development trains the next generation of engineers and technical workforce with the skills to advance the nitrogen circular economy while considering sustainability within their own and global communities. CASFER’s curricular platforms focus on creating agents of change and influencers targeting formal and informal education along the K-gray lifelong-learning spectrum.2
One of the most difficult challenges to translate electrochemical technologies into the agriculture market is the lag in education about the impact of electrochemical technologies in the field. Other challenges include lack of (1) investment and resources for translational research; (2) effective mechanisms to derisk investment; (3) a workforce prepared to translate and operate such technologies; (4) policy, legal infrastructure, and holistic business growth models; and (5) diverse and inclusive leadership “agents of change” to transition the technologies into the market.
Opportunities to translate research into the market require strong partnerships with industry, universities, government, and stakeholders. An example model that has demonstrated success since its establishment is the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Centers Program.
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This work was supported by the National Science Foundation, EEC Division of Engineering Education and Centers, NSF Engineering Research Center for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer production (CASFER), NSF 20-553 Gen-4 Engineering Research Centers award # 2133576.
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Gerardine (Gerri) Botte, Founder and Director, CASFER an NSF Engineering Research Center. Professor and Whitacre Endowed Chair in Sustainable Energy, Texas Tech University
Education: BS in Chemical Engineering (Universidad de Carabobo, Venezuela), ME and PhD in Chemical Engineering (University of South Carolina).
Research Interests: Electrochemical engineering, Advanced and sustainable manufacturing, Process intensification, Food/energy/water sustainability, Nanomaterials, Electrosynthesis, Batteries, Electrolyzers, Sensors, Fuel cells, Mathematical modeling, and Electrocatalysis
Work Experience: Whitacre Department Chair in Chemical Engineering (Texas Tech University), Russ Professor and Director Center for Electrochemical Engineering Research (Ohio University), NSF I/UCRC Center for Electrochemical Processes and Technology (Ohio University), Graduate Research Intern (Celgard), Process Engineer (Petrochemical of Venezuela). Professor Botte is also an entrepreneur; she has been involved in the commercialization of
technologies, has founded and co-founded companies, and serves as member of the board of directors of several companies.
Work with ECS: Member of 25 years, President (2023–2024), Senior Vice President (2022–2023), Second Vice President (2021–2022), Third Vice President (2020–2021), Chair (2012–2014), Vice Chair (2010–2012), Treasurer and Secretary (2008–2010) of the IE&EE Division, Honors and Awards Committee member (2011–2013), Chair Vittorio de Nora Award (2012), Fellows Subcommittee (2015), Chair and Co-Chair of 34 Symposia, Mentor Texas Tech University Student Chapter (2020–present), Mentor Ohio University Student Chapter (2011–2019).
Honors & Awards: National Academy of Science of Venezuela (2023); Stanford’s top 2% of most-cited researchers in the world (2020, 2021, 2022); Outstanding Graduate Alumna Award, College of Engineering and Computing, University of South Carolina (2021); Distinguished Professor, Ohio University (2015); Fellow Electrochemical Society (2014); Fellow National Academy of Inventors (2012); Fellow World Technology Network (2010). Pubs + Patents: 211, including 62 patents. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5678-6669
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2. CASFER, NSF ERC: Center for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production
3. ERC Best Practices manual, Chapter 5: Industrial Collaboration and Innovation, NSF Engineering Research Centers.
4. P. Lynn and C. Lewis, Agents of Change: NSF’s Engineering Research Centers A History, National Science Foundation
5. The ERC Brochure 2022
6. NSF Engineering Research Centers
7. Industry Ratings of ERC Graduates, NSF Engineering Research Centers
8. CASFER’s Fact Sheet, NSF Engineering Research Centers Association
9. Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, How to Feed the World in 2050, available online
10. How Many People Does Synthetic Fertilizer Feed? Our World in Data
11. Ammonia Market Size, Precedence Research
12. L. K. Boerner, Industrial ammonia production emits more CO2 than any other chemical-making reaction. Chemists want to change that
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15. US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Nutrient Pollution: The Problem
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On April 22, 2023, the ECS Canada Section hosted its spring symposium at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. The event was successfully held in person at the Donald Gordon Hotel & Conference Centre. More than 60 participants from industry, government research centers, and Canadian and international universities met to discuss Recent Trends and Advances in Electrochemistry and Electrocatalysis in Canada.
The featured keynote lectures were delivered by Christophe Coutanceau, Professor at Université de Poitiers, and Andrew Stuart, President and CEO at Hydrogen Optimized. Gianluigi Botton, Science Director at Canadian Light Source (CLS), presented an overview of CLS’s capabilities and explained how it serves Canadian industry, government, and university researchers. Invited speakers from Canadian universities and research institutions furthered the discussions of recent research and industrial advances during their lectures and through open conversation during the student poster session and networking breaks. The meeting offered Canadian students and researchers an opportunity to connect with fellow electrochemistry researchers, as well as to explore current and upcoming goals from an industry perspective.
ECS Executive Director and CEO Christopher Jannuzzi attended the symposium and presented the ECS Canada Section W. Lash Miller Award and Canadian Section Student Award. The Miller Award was presented to Shuhui Sun, Professor at the Institut national
de la recherche scientifique (INRS), for his contributions to the design of electrocatalysts for hydrogen production and fuel cells; and the Canadian Section Student Award was presented to Ms. Yue Zhang, University of British Columbia Okanagan, for her contributions to next-generation battery technology. Of the 20 students participating in the poster session, the top three received a copy of the Springer Electrochemical Dictionary, sponsored by Springer Nature. Muna Abdulaziz from Ontario Tech University received 1st place; Emmanuel Boateng from the University of Guelph, 2nd place; and Sho Fujita from Queen’s University, 3rd place.
The spring symposium was possible thanks to the sponsors’ generous support: Vice President Edward Stuart represented Hydrogen Optimized; Russ Gill and Marty Kurylowicz represented Gamble Technologies; Parviz Shahbazikhah represented Metrohm; Maria Pilarinos represented Systems for Research; and Vanessa Vethacke represented Springer Nature. Also acknowledged were the Donald Gordon Hotel & Conference Centre administrative and support staff, as well as local organizers Dr. Gregory Jerkiewicz, Derek Esau, Sho Fujita, Gaurav Verma, and Niusha Mouchani. The technical support and management of registration and finances by ECS staff members Chris Jannuzzi and Shannon Reed is greatly appreciated.
On April 17, 2023, the ECS Twin Cities Section held an Advances in Electrochemistry Symposium and Student Poster Session. Section Vice Chair Dr. Vincent Chevrier, CTO of Trion Energy Solutions, gave a well-
received talk, “Li-Ion Batteries: Taking Over the World,” while attendees from academia and industry dined on amazing local foods. At the event, eight undergraduate and graduate students presented posters.
Section Name
Arizona Section
Brazil Section
Canada Section
Section Chair
Candace Kay Chan
Raphael Nagao
Heather A. Andreas
Chile Section José H. Zagal
China Section Open
Detroit Section Erik Anderson
Europe Section Philippe Marcus
Georgia Section
Seung Woo Lee
India Section Sinthai Ilangovan
Israel Section
Japan Section
Daniel Mandler
Yasushi Idemoto
Korea Section Won-Sub Yoon
Mexico Section
Carlos E. Frontana Vázquez
Mid-America Section Nosang Myung
National Capital Section
New England Section
Chunsheng Wang
Sanjeev Mukerjee
Pacific Northwest Section Corie Cobb
Pittsburgh Section Open
San Francisco Section Gao Liu
Singapore Section
Taiwan Section
Zhichuan J. Xu
Chi-Chang Hu
Texas Section Jeremy P. Meyers
Twin Cities Section Victoria Gelling
The ECS Honors & Awards Program recognizes outstanding technical achievement in electrochemistry, solid state science, and technology, and recognizes exceptional service to the Society. Award opportunities are provided in the categories of Society Awards, Division Awards, Section Awards, and Student Awards. Recognizing that today’s emerging scientists are the next generation of leaders in our field, ECS offers competitive fellowships and grants that make it possible for students and young professionals to make discoveries and shape our science long into the future.
See highlights below and visit www.electrochem.org/awards for more information.
Allen J. Bard Award: Established in 2013 to recognize distinguished contributions to electrochemical science, the award consists of a plaque containing a glassy carbon medallion, $7,500 prize, complimentary meeting registration for the award recipient and companion, dinner held in the recipient’s honor during the designated meeting, and ECS Life Membership.
Nomination period: September 1, 2023–April 15, 2024
Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award: Established in 2003 to recognize outstanding scientific and/or engineering work in fundamental or applied electrochemistry or solid state science and technology by a young scientist or engineer, the award consists of a framed certificate, $5,000* prize, ECS Life Membership, complimentary meeting registration, and travel support.
Materials deadline: October 1, 2023
ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship: Established in partnership with the Toyota Research Institute of North America in 2015, the award encourages young professionals and scholars to pursue research into batteries, fuel cells and hydrogen, and future sustainable technologies. Each year, at least one candidate receives the fellowship restricted grant of no less than $50,000 to conduct the proposed research within one year, and a one-year complimentary ECS membership. Recipients must present at a Society biannual meeting and publish their research in a relevant ECS journal within 24 months of receiving the award.
Materials deadline: January 31, 2024
Edward G. Acheson Award: Established in 1928 for distinguished contributions to the advancement of any of the objects, purposes, or activities of The Electrochemical Society, the award consists of a gold medal, plaque with a bronze replica of the medal, $10,000 prize, ECS Life Membership, and complimentary meeting registration.
Materials deadline: October 1, 2023
Fellow of The Electrochemical Society: Established in 1989 for advanced individual technological contributions in the field of electrochemical and solid state science and technology, and active membership and involvement in The Electrochemical Society, the award consists of a framed certificate and lapel pin.
Nomination period: September 1, 2023–February 1, 2024
Gordon E. Moore Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Science and Technology: Established in 1971 for distinguished contributions to the field of solid state science and technology, the award consists of a silver medal, plaque, $7,500 prize, complimentary meeting registration for the award recipient and companion, dinner held in the recipient’s honor during the designated meeting, and ECS Life Membership.
Nomination period: September 1, 2023–April 15, 2024
Leadership Circle Awards: Established in 2002 to honor and thank our partners in electrochemistry and solid state science partners, these awards are granted in the year that an institutional member reaches a milestone level. Awardees receive a commemorative plaque and recognition on the ECS website and in Interface magazine. Nominations not accepted.
Battery Division Early Career Award Sponsored by Neware Corporation: Established in 2020 to encourage excellence among postdoctoral researchers in battery and fuel cell research, the award’s primary purpose is to recognize and support development of talented future leaders in the field. Winners receive a framed scroll, $2,000 prize, and complimentary meeting registration.
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Battery Division Postdoctoral Associate Research Award Sponsored by MTI Corporation and the Jiang Family Foundation: Established in 2016 to encourage excellence among postdoctoral researchers in battery and fuel cell research, the award consists of a framed scroll, $2,000 prize, and complimentary meeting registration. Two awards are granted each year.
Nomination period: October 15, 2023–January 15, 2024
Battery Division Research Award: Established in 1958 to honor excellence in battery and fuel cell research and to encourage publication in ECS outlets, the award recognizes outstanding contributions to the science of primary and secondary cells, batteries, and fuel cells. Winners receive a framed certificate and $2,000 prize.
Nomination period: October 15, 2023–January 15, 2024
Battery Division Technology Award: Established in 1993 to encourage the development of battery and fuel cell technology, and to recognize significant achievements in this area, the award consists of a scroll, $2,000 prize, and ECS Battery Division membership while the recipient maintains ECS membership.
Nomination period: October 15, 2023–January 15, 2024
Corrosion Division H. H. Uhlig Award: Established in 1973 to recognize excellence in corrosion research and outstanding technical contributions to the field of corrosion science and technology, the award consists of a scroll and $1,500 prize.
Nomination period: October 15, 2023–January 15, 2024
Corrosion Division Rusty Award for Mid-Career
Excellence: Established in 2021 to recognize a scientist or engineer’s mid-career achievements and contributions to the field of corrosion science and technology, the award consists of a framed certificate; $1,000; and possibly travel expenses and meeting registration.
Nomination period: October 15, 2023–January 15, 2024
Electrodeposition Division Early Career Investigator
Award: Established in 2015 to recognize an outstanding young researcher in the field of electrochemical deposition science and technology, the award consists of a framed certificate and $1,000 prize.
Nomination period: October 15, 2023–January 15, 2024
Electrodeposition Division Research Award: The award recognizes outstanding research contributions to the field of electrodeposition and encourages the publication of high quality papers in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society. It is based on recent outstanding achievements in, or contributions to, the field of electrodeposition and is given to an author or co-author of a paper appearing in JES or another ECS publication. Winners receive a framed certificate and $2,000 prize.
Nomination period: October 15, 2023–January 15, 2024
Energy Technology Division Walter van Schalkwijk
Award for Sustainable Technology: Established in 2021 to recognize research scientists, academicians, and entrepreneurs who make innovative and transformative contributions to sustainable energy technologies, the award consists of a framed certificate and a maximum $2,500 prize.
Nomination period: October 15, 2023–January 15, 2024
High-Temperature Energy, Materials, & Processes
Division Outstanding Achievement Award: Established in 1984 to recognize excellence in research and outstanding technical contributions to the high-temperature energy, materials, and processes field, the award consists of a scroll, $1,000 prize, and complimentary meeting registration.
Nomination period: October 15, 2023–January 15, 2024
Luminescence and Display Materials Division
Outstanding Achievement Award: Established in 2002 to encourage excellence in luminescence and display materials research and outstanding technical contributions to the field, the award consists of a scroll and $1,000 prize.
Nomination period: October 15, 2023–January 15, 2024
Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry Division
David C. Grahame Award: Created in 1981 to encourage excellence in physical electrochemistry research and to stimulate publication of high quality research papers in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society, the award consists of a framed certificate and $1,500 prize.
Nomination period: October 15, 2023–January 15, 2024
Sensor Division Early Career Award: Established in 2021 to recognize promising early career engineers’ and scientists’ research contributions to the field of sensors; and to encourage recipients to continue careers in the field and to remain active in the ECS Sensor Division, the award consists of a framed certificate, $500 prize, complimentary meeting registration, and ECS Sensor Division Business luncheon ticket.
Nomination period: October 15, 2023–January 15, 2024
Sensor Division Outstanding Achievement Award: Created in 1989 to recognize outstanding achievement in service to the sensor community, for research and/or technical contributions to the field of sensors, and to encourage work excellence in the field, the award consists of a framed certificate, $1,000 prize, complimentary meeting registration, and Sensor Division Business Luncheon ticket.
Nomination period: October 15, 2023–January 15, 2024
Europe Section Alessandro Volta Medal: Established in 1998 to recognize excellence in electrochemistry and solid state science and technology research, the award consists of a silver medal and $2,000 prize.
Nomination period: December 15, 2023–February 15, 2024
San Francisco Section Award: Established in 2021 to recognize excellence by an individual or team residing in California or in the southwestern US in the field of electrochemical science and technology and/or solid state science and technology; acknowledge service to ECS; and advance and encourage electrochemistry and solid state science and technology as a profession, the award consists of an engraved plaque and $2,000 prize.
Nomination period: December 15, 2023–February 15, 2024
Battery Division Student Research Award Sponsored by Mercedes-Benz Research & Development: The award recognizes promising young engineers and scientists enrolled in a college or university in the field of electrochemical power sources and encourages them to initiate or continue careers in the field. Winners receive a framed certificate and $1,000 prize.
Nomination period: October 15, 2023–January 15, 2024
Biannual Meeting Travel Grants: Many ECS divisions and sections offer travel grants to undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and young professionals and faculty presenting papers at ECS biannual meetings. The awards consist of financial support ranging from complimentary meeting registration to luncheon/reception tickets, travel support, and more. Each division and section has its own application requirements.
245th ECS Meeting Travel Grant applications accepted from December 1, 2023 to February 26, 2024
Canada Section Student Award: Established in 1987 to recognize promising young engineers and science students pursuing PhDs at Canadian universities, the award is intended to encourage recipients to initiate or continue careers in the field of electrochemical power sources. Winners receive a $1,500 prize.
Nomination period: September 30, 2023–February 28, 2024
Colin Garfield Fink Fellowship: First awarded in 1962, the fellowship assists a postdoctoral scientist/ researcher during the months of June through September to pursue research in a field of interest to the Society. The award consists of $5,000 and publication of a summary report in Interface
Materials deadline: January 15 annually
Corrosion Division Morris Cohen Graduate Student Award: Established in 1991 to recognize and reward outstanding graduate research in the field of corrosion science and/or engineering, the award consists of a framed certificate, $1,000 prize, and travel expenses.
Nomination period: October 15, 2023–January 15, 2024
ECS Korea Section Student Award: Established in 2005 to recognize academic accomplishment by a student pursuing a PhD at a Korean University in any area of science or engineering in which electrochemical and/or solid state science and technology is the central consideration, the award consists of a $500 prize.
Nomination period: September 15–December 31, 2023
ECS General Student Poster Session Awards: A forum for graduate and undergraduate students is provided to present research results of general interest to ECS. The session was established in 1993 to foster and promote work in electrochemical and solid state science and technology and to stimulate active student interest and participation in ECS. Posters accepted for presentation are eligible for General Student Poster Awards: 1st place: $1,500; 2nd place:
$1,000; 3rd place: $500. For award consideration, authors must submit an abstract to the Z01 General Student Poster Session; be accepted for inclusion in the poster session; upload a digital poster; and be present during the in-person judging session.
Materials deadline: The abstract deadline for the ECS Meeting in which the poster will be presented
ECS Outstanding Student Chapter Award: Established in 2012, the award recognizes student chapters that demonstrate active participation in the Society’s technical activities; establish community and outreach activities in the areas of electrochemical and solid state science and engineering education; and create and maintain a robust membership base. Up to three winners are selected. The one chosen as Outstanding Student Chapter receives a recognition plaque, $1,000; award recognition; and chapter group photo in Interface or electronic communications. Up to two named Chapters of Excellence receive recognition certificates and acknowledgement in Interface.
Materials deadline: April 15 annually
ECS Summer Fellowships: Established in 1928, the awards assist students pursuing work in a field of interest to ECS. The Society awards the Edward G. Weston Fellowship, Joseph W. Richards Fellowship, F. M. Becket Fellowship, and the H. H. Uhlig Fellowship annually. Each fellowship consists of $5,000 to support research from June through August and publication of a summary report in Interface Materials deadline: January 15 annually
Pacific Northwest Section Electrochemistry Student Award sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific: Established in 2021 to recognize promising young engineers and scientists in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho pursuing PhDs in the field of electrochemical engineering and applied electrochemistry, the award consists of a 1,000 prize.
Nomination period: September 15, 2023–February 28, 2024
San Francisco Section Daniel Cubicciotti Student Award: Established in 1994 to assist deserving students in Northern California pursuing careers in the physical sciences or engineering, the award consists of an etched metal plaque and $2,000 prize. Up to two honorable mentions are extended, each receiving a framed certificate and $500 prize.
Nomination period: December 15, 2023–February 15, 2024
Sensor Division Student Research Award: Established in 2021 to recognize promising students pursuing graduate training for conducting outstanding research in the field of sensors, the award consists of a framed certificate, $200 prize, complimentary meeting registration, and Sensor Division Business luncheon ticket.
Nomination period: October 15, 2023–January 15, 2024.
*All prize amounts are in US dollars unless otherwise stated.
Join us in celebrating your peers as we extend congratulations to all! The following awards are part of ECS Honors & Awards Program, which for decades has recognized professional and volunteer achievement within our multi-disciplinary sciences.
Peter Strasser is Chaired Professor of Electrochemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the Technische Universität Berlin. Electrocatalysis is a central theme of his career, with interests ranging from electrocatalytic oscillations to high throughput catalyst discovery and the fundamental understanding of electrified catalytic interfaces for clean energy technologies.
Prof. Strasser studied chemistry at Universität Tübingen, Stanford University, and Università degli Studi di Padova. He received his PhD in Physical Electrochemistry under Gerhard Ertl at the FritzHaber-Institut of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. He worked at Symyx Technologies from 2000 to 2004 as a postdoctoral associate and Senior Staff Scientist, then as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston from 2004 to 2007. He joined the faculty of the Technische Universität Berlin in 2007.
Recognition of his work includes the f-cell Award, the European Fuel Cell Forum Christian Schönbein Gold Medal, Faraday Medal, International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) Brian Conway Prize, Sir William Grove Award, German Catalysis Society OttoRoelen Medal in Catalysis, and Max-Planck-Gesellschaft OttoHahn Medal. He is an ISE Fellow. With his team, Prof. Strasser has authored more than 350 journal publications and edited the book, High-Throughput Screening in Chemical Catalysis. He is a named inventor on 19 issued US and European patents. Spin-off companies commercializing technology from his lab include DexLeChem and Liquid Loop. For more than 10 years, Prof. Strasser has co-organized the ECS fall meeting PEFC&E fuel cell and electrolyzer symposia. He happily drives a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle which he wouldn’t trade for a battery vehicle!
Jeff Dahn is Canada Research Chair in Materials for Advanced Batteries and Professor of Physics and Professor of Chemistry at Dalhousie University. He was born in Bridgeport, CT, in 1957, and emigrated with his family to Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1970. He obtained his BS in Physics from Dalhousie University (1978) and his PhD from the University of British Columbia in 1982. Prof. Dahn then worked at the National Research Council of Canada (1982–1985) and at Moli Energy Limited (1985-1990) where he did pioneering work on lithium-ion batteries before taking up a faculty position in the Physics Department at Simon Fraser University in 1990. He returned to Dalhousie University in 1996. His wife, Kathy, his children Hannah,
Tara, and Jackson, and their spouses, are all Dalhousie graduates. Prof. Dahn has always interacted strongly with industry. He was the NSERC/3M Canada Industrial Research Chair in Materials for Advanced Batteries at Dalhousie University from 1996 to 2016. In 2016 he became the NSERC/Tesla Canada Industrial Research Chair and is focusing the efforts of his group on helping to improve the Liion cells used in Tesla’s vehicles and energy storage products. Prof. Dahn is the author or co-author of more than 770 refereed journal papers and 78 inventions with patents issued or filed. Jeff has trained more than 60 PhD students and more than 25 postdoctoral fellows in his career. Many of these hold senior positions in battery and battery materials companies around the world; six are CEOs of their own companies.
Prof. Dahn’s research has been recognized with national and international awards that include the 2022 Killam Prize, 2017 Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal in Science and Engineering, 2016 Governor General’s Innovation Award, 2011 ECS Battery Division Technology Award, 2009 Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) Medal for Excellence in Teaching, 1996 ECS Battery Division Research Award, 1996 CAP Herzberg Medal, and 1987 CAP Medal for Innovation in Physics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Officer of the Order of Canada.
For the paper, “In Situ High-Temperature TEM Observation of Inconel Corrosion by Molten Chloride Salts with N2, O2, or H2O” [P. Pragnya et al., J Electrochem Soc, 169, 093504 (2022)].
Prachi Pragnya is currently a Senior Process Engineer at GlobalFoundries, a multinational semiconductor manufacturing and design company. She earned her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where her doctoral research focused on studying high temperature corrosion of metal alloy by molten salts in real time at nanoscale level inside a transmission electron microscope. She completed her MS at the Indian Institute of Science where she worked on thin-film fabrication and characterization of Li-ion battery electrodes.
Dr. Pragnya grew up in a joint family setting in Odisha, India, and moved to the US in 2017 for graduate studies. She met her husband in college and has been happily married since the fall of 2018. In her free time, she likes to visit new places and engage in community outreach activities.
For the paper, “Threshold Ion Energies and Cleaning of Etch Residues During Inductively Coupled Etching of NiO/Ga2O3 in BCl3” [C.-C. Chiang et al., ECS J Solid State Sci Technol, 11, 115005 (2022)]
Chao-Ching Chiang is a PhD candidate in Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida. His research endeavors include unraveling the wet and dry etching mechanisms and applications for NiO/Ga2O3 PN heterojunction power devices, simulating and optimizing ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor-based power rectifier performances using TCAD software, and designing GaN/AlGaN HEMT with a novel gating solution to achieve high functioning enhancement mode. He was actively engaged in the development of a 30-second quantitative antigen detection biosensor system with disposable strips, which was a great innovation for COVID-19 rapid detection and is suitable for a wide range of applications that may improve breast cancer or oral cancer diagnosis in the future. In addition, Chiang explores the antibacterial properties of various nanotube surfaces targeted at preventing dental implant peri-implantitis.
Chiang earned a BS in Chemical Engineering at the National Taiwan University in 2016. As an undergraduate, he analyzed silica low-k thin films using discrete nanoparticle casting solutions with the WAXS/SAXS at the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center. He also modeled static and time-dependent finite element analysis computer simulations for the thermal dynamic behaviors in coffee bean roasters.
Jian-Sian Li is a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida. His research focuses on the processing and characterization of ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor-based materials and devices, specifically in the realm of high-speed electronics and photonics. Jian-Sian’s particular interest lies in NiO/Ga2O3 power devices, encompassing wet/dry etching mechanisms, band alignment engineering, TCAD simulation, and performance optimization.
Originally from Taipei, Li obtained his BS and MS in chemical engineering at the National Taiwan University in 2015 and 2018. While pursuing the MS, he studied the field of phoretic motions of colloidal particles and electro-kinetic phenomena, based on theoretical and semi-analytical calculation. As an intern at the Daxin Materials Corporation, he was responsible for the initial development of aqueous-soluble photoresists, which can ensure environmental sustainability while improving the technology. Li was a Research Assistant at the Advanced Research Center for Green Materials Science and Technology, responsible for one project concentrating on high-performance conjugated polymers, mainly for applications in organic field-effect transistors and polymer solar cells; and a second project developing all-solid-state polymer electrolytes (SPE) for lithium-ion batteries. During his PhD research, Li has produced more than 10 first-author publications and presentations at seven conferences, including several world-record performances of Ga2O3based rectifiers.
Sponsored by Neware Technology Limited
Zheng Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Nano and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on understanding the fundamental properties of electrochemical interfaces and structures as well as designing materials and processes for more efficient and sustainable energy storage and conversion.
Prof. Chen received his BS from Tianjin University in 2007 and PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2012 (with Prof. Yunfeng Lu), both in Chemical Engineering. He did his postdoctoral research at Stanford University with Profs. Zhenan Bao and Yi Cui before joining UC San Diego in 2016. In 2018, Prof. Chen received the NASA Early Career Faculty Award and American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award, and in 2017, the LG Chem Global Battery Innovation Contest Award. He was a Scialog Fellow in Advanced Energy Storage from 2017 to 2019 and was invited to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s 2023 Germany-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium and 2019 China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.
Matthew McDowell is an Associate Professor and Woodruff Faculty Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology with appointments in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and School of Materials Science and Engineering. His research focuses on developing and characterizing battery materials and systems, including solid state batteries, Li-ion batteries at low temperatures, and novel anode materials. The McDowell Group develops and uses a variety of in situ and operando materials characterization techniques to understand the dynamic evolution of battery materials.
Prof. McDowell completed his PhD at Stanford University in 2013 and postdoc at the California Institute of Technology from 2013 to 2015. He has received numerous awards, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, Sloan Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, NASA Early Career Faculty Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research Early Career Grant, and Georgia Tech’s Outstanding Achievement in Early Career Research Award.
Sponsored by MTI Corporation and the Jiang Family Foundation
David Reber is an Schweizerischer Nationalfonds Ambizione project leader at the Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt (Empa). His research focuses on aqueous flow batteries, aiming to decouple energy density from active material solubility. Prior to his current position, Dr. Reber was a Postdoctoral Associate in Prof. Michael Marshak’s group at the University
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of Colorado Boulder, where he worked on enhancing the solubility of various metal-organic chelates for flow battery electrolytes. Guided by Prof. Corsin Battaglia and Prof. Frank Nüesch, he received his PhD from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2020. He conducted his thesis work at Empa, where he developed highly concentrated electrolytes for high-voltage aqueous batteries. During that time, he also worked at the University of Tokyo with Prof. Atsuo Yamada. Prof. Silvio Decurtins, Prof. Peter Broekmann, and Prof. Wenjing Hong advised him through his BS and MS in Chemistry at the Universität Bern.
Xiang Gao is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His battery research began during his PhD studies and today he is at the forefront of high-energy-density anode and battery safety studies. With 21 published papers in notable journals, including Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Advanced Energy Materials, Nano Materials, and Energy Storage Materials, Dr. Gao’s research has revolutionized our understanding of battery behavior and safety. He has addressed critical challenges, enhanced battery safety, and paved the way for practical application through cutting-edge multiphysicsmultiscale modeling techniques.
Y. Shirley Meng is Professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago and Chief Scientist at the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science, Argonne National Laboratory. Since 2009, Dr. Meng has been the principal investigator of the research group, Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion (LESC), at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), which has spun out start-up companies that include South 8 Technologies and UNIGRID.
Prof. Meng received her PhD in Advanced Materials for Microand Nano-Systems from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Training in 2005 after completing a BS in Materials Science with first class honors at the Nanyang Technological University in 2000. She held the Zable Chair Professor in Energy Technologies at UCSD from 2017 to 2022. Dr. Meng has received prestigious awards that include the 2022 C3E Technology and Innovation Award, 2020 Faraday Medal, 2019 International Battery Association IBA Research Award, 2018 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists Finalist, 2018 American Chemical Society (ACS) Applied Materials & Interfaces Young Investigator Award, 2016 ECS Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award, and 2011 NSF CAREER Award. Dr. Meng is a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society, Fellow of the Materials Research Society, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is author and co-author of more than 285 peer-reviewed journal articles, two book chapters, six issued patents, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of MRS Energy & Sustainability
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Gustavo M. Hobold is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), working with Prof. Betar Gallant. His research focuses on developing a quantitative understanding of the functional properties and chemical composition of solid electrolyte interphases (SEI) formed natively on Li anodes. His work leverages in situ experiments and highthroughput post-mortem titration-based techniques to precisely quantify the formation of a wide range of SEI phases and decipher capacity loss mechanisms in modern high Coulombic efficiency (CE) electrolytes. Ultimately, his work has revealed several quantifiable SEI-based descriptors that can guide future liquid electrolyte discovery, aiming to breach >99.9% CE. Prior to MIT, Gustavo received his Engineering degree and MS in Mechanical Engineering from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.
KyuJung Jun is a PhD candidate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, advised by Prof. Gerbrand Ceder Jun’s research focuses on computational understanding of energy materials for sustainability. Specifically, he has contributed to the field by elucidating the lithium-ion diffusion mechanism in lithium superionic conductors for all-solid-state batteries. His work involves studying the structural and dynamic factors that influence lithium-ion diffusion, leading to the discovery of numerous novel lithium superionic conductors. Jun also developed event-based algorithms to quantify ion-ion (or anion-group) correlations in inorganic materials. This led to mechanistic insights into the impact of anion-group rotations on lithium-ion diffusion. His research approach combines fundamental thermodynamics, first-principles calculations, and machine-learning-accelerated molecular dynamics simulations. Jun’s work has been published in journals that include Nature Materials and Advanced Energy Materials. He holds a BS from Seoul National University.
John Muldoon is Senior Principal Scientist at the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA). He contributes consistently to the company’s sustainable mobility platforms, studying materials for fuel cells, batteries, and carbon dioxide capture and conversion. His research leadership has greatly contributed to the company’s beyond lithium-ion battery research programs, shaping global research trends on multivalent ion, lithium sulfur, and solid state lithium metal batteries.
Dr. Muldoon completed his PhD at the University of Notre Dame under the direction of Prof. Seth Brown, specializing in organometallic chemistry, after receiving a BS with honors in Chemistry from Queens University. He worked as a Research Associate at Scripps Research under Prof. Barry Sharpless (2001 and 2022 Nobel laureate in Chemistry) and Prof. Valery Fokin, establishing early applications of click chemistry. Dr. Muldoon has received more than 6000 citations and holds more than 35 patents. He is a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
An active ECS and battery division committee member, Dr. Muldoon was instrumental in establishing symposia at ECS meetings on beyond-Li-ion battery research. To advocate for the development of younger scientists, he cultivated the relationship between the ECS and Toyota, which resulted in the establishment of the ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship in 2016.
Sannakaisa Virtanen is Professor for Surface Science and Corrosion in the Department of Materials Science at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität ErlangenNürnberg (FAU). Her research employs advanced electrochemical and surface analytical tools to focus on the elucidation of reaction mechanisms at solid/liquid- and solid/gas-interfaces, and passivity, localized corrosion, oxidation, corrosion, and degradation behavior of advanced metallic materials. A strong focus in the last decade has been on the corrosion behavior of metallic materials used in biomedical devices, including biodegradable metals such as Mg alloys.
Prof. Virtanen studied metallurgy at the Helsinki University of Technology, then completed her PhD at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH-Zurich). She was Senior Scientist at ETH-Zürich with research stays at Brookhaven National Laboratory and McMaster University. In 1997, she was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials at ETH-Zürich, and then joined FAU Erlangen as professor in 2003.
Prof. Virtanen is the author of more than 280 peer-reviewed publications with an h-index of 54. She received the 2008 National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) H. H. Uhlig Award and was awarded Fellow of The Electrochemical Society in 2018 and NACE Fellow in 2020. She chaired the Gordon Research Conference on Aqueous Corrosion in 2016. Prof. Virtanen is an active member of ECS, having served the Society in a number of functions, including Chair of the ECS Corrosion Division.
Sanjay Choudhary is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Prof. Robert G. Kelly at the University of Virginia, where he studies localized corrosion characteristics of Al-alloys used in aerospace and stainlesssteel dry storage containers, using in situ transmission electron microscopy and finite element modeling.
After completing a BTech in Metallurgical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Raipur in 2014, he received the MTech in Materials Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2016. As part of his MTech research, he studied the evolution of rust layer on mild steel structures during atmospheric corrosion under Prof. Kallol Mondal’s supervision. From 2016 to 2018, he worked as a researcher with TATA Steel India Ltd., where he investigated the evolution of oxide scale during hot rolling and localized corrosion in steel plates. Dr. Choudhary obtained his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Monash University in 2022. Under the supervision of Prof. Nick Birbilis and Dr. Sebastian Thomas, he studied the evolution of passivity and passivity breakdown in Cr and Cr-containing alloys, including stainless steel and multi-principal element alloys.
Rajeev Gupta is Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU) with primary research interests in the broad areas of corrosion and material engineering. His research group focuses on understanding the structure-processing-property-performance relationships in metallic materials, hightemperature corrosion, passivity, corrosion initiation and propagation mechanisms, and surface electrochemistry using state-of-the-art material characterization and electrochemical techniques. The fundamental research is intended to be applied to developing new materials, corrosion characterization techniques, material processing technologies, and life prediction models. Professor Gupta’s interdisciplinary research is supported by the National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Office of Naval Research, and industry.
Prof. Gupta received his BS in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and PhD in Materials Engineering from Monash University. Prior to joining NCSU, he was Assistant Professor of Chemical, Biomolecular, and Corrosion Engineering at the University of Akron. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of The Electrochemical Society. Prof. Gupta has authored more than 130 publications, holds two patents, and has presented at many invited conferences.
Rohan Akolkar is the Milton and Tamar Maltz Professor of Energy Innovation at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). He is an Ohio Eminent Scholar in Advanced Energy Research, serves as Faculty Director of CWRU’s Great Lakes Energy Institute, and holds a joint appointment as Chief Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. His research spans many areas of electrochemical engineering: electrodeposition, electrometallurgy and electrochemical materials development for applications in nano-electronics, batteries, sensors, and extraction and refining of critical materials. He has made important contributions to fundamental and applied electrochemistry, including patented electrochemical processes and materials which have enabled highperformance interconnects in advanced semiconductor devices; novel electrowinning and electrorefining processes for the extraction and recycling of metals; fundamental studies unraveling mechanisms of dendrite formation in batteries; and a novel sensor for detecting heavy-metal contaminants in water.
Prof. Akolkar received a PhD in Chemical Engineering from CWRU in 2004. He worked in industrial R&D at Intel Corporation for eight years before returning to CWRU as a faculty member in 2012. His research has been recognized by CWRU’s School of Engineering Innovation and Research Awards, the ECS Norman Hackerman Award, and numerous industry awards during his tenure at Intel. In 2021, he was elected Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors. He serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of The Electrochemical Society and is a member-at-large of the ECS Electrodeposition Division. In 2018, he was invited by the US National Academies to the 6th Arab American Frontiers Symposium.
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Massimo Innocenti is Full Professor in Analytical Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry at the Università degli Studi di Firenze. His research focuses on nanomaterials obtainable by electrochemical means and used in the field of electrocatalysis, energy, and sensors. Of note are recent results in the field of surface analysis obtained by combining electrochemical techniques with microscopic spectroscopic surface techniques and synchrotron radiation. He has received multiple industrial contracts for research and industrial development in the field of applied electroplating and surface analysis.
Prof. Innocenti has 225 scientific publications with an h-index of 37. He has made over 380 presentations at national and international conferences, of which more than 80 were invited. Since 2013, he has been Associate Editor for Coatings and since 2016, a member of the Editorial Board for Scientific Reports – Nature. Prof. Innocenti was elected to the board of directors of the Interdivisional Group of Chemistry for Renewable Energies (EnerChem) from 2013 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018. From 2013 to 2016, he served on the Review Committee of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. Prof. Innocenti has been the elected coordinator of the American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry’s Analytical Spectroscopy Group since 2019. Recently, he has given courses in electroplating, plating, and surface analysis at important fashion companies, including Gucci, Luxottica, Jessica, Bluclad, Arezzo Innovation, UNOAERRE, Valmet Plating, Oroplac, LEM, and Yves Saint Laurent.
Peter Pintauro is the H. Eugene McBrayer Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Vanderbilt University. His research interests are in the areas of membrane science, fuel cells, and organic electrochemical synthesis. He recently formed a start-up company, eFiber Innovations, LLC, to commercialize products based on patents from his membrane and electrode electrospinning work at Vanderbilt.
He received his BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. He joined the faculty of Tulane University in 1986, where he rose to the rank of Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1994. In 2002, he moved to Case Western Reserve University as Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering and was appointed Kent Hale Smith Professor of Engineering in 2004. From 2008 to 2013, he was Department Chair at Vanderbilt. He is a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, past President of the North American Membrane Society, and 2018 US Department of Energy’s Fuel Cell R&D Award recipient.
Chuancheng Duan is Assistant Professor in the Tim Taylor Department of Chemical Engineering in the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering at Kansas State University (K-State) where he established the Materials Research Laboratory for Sustainable Energy. His research focuses on designing, fabricating, and characterizing advanced energy materials and novel electrochemical devices to address critical energy and environmental issues. Prof. Duan’s research has led to major breakthroughs in the scientific understanding and practical application of proton-conducting ceramics for intermediate-temperature electrochemical devices, including fuel cells, electrolyzers, and chemicals synthesis.
After completing a BS at the Dalian University of Technology, Prof. Duan received a PhD from the Colorado School of Mines. Both degrees were in Materials Science. In the last three years, his team at K-State has published more than a dozen peer-reviewed research articles in high-impact journals, including Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Nature, Science, Nature Energy, and Joule. His has two patents and has been recognized with the 2022 Materials Today Energy Rising Star Award, 2018 American Ceramics Society (ACerS) Ross Coffin Purdy Award, 2018 Dr. Bhakta Rath and Sushama Rath Research Award, and 2017 ACerS Graduate Excellence in Materials Science Award.
Prof. Doug MacFarlane is the Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor at Monash University’s School of Chemistry. His interests include the chemistry and application of ionic liquids, including in electrochemistry applications in renewable energy storage. His current focus is on the electrochemical generation of ammonia as an energy store, and also on the development of novel ionic liquids and organic salts for use in the Carnot battery.
Before taking up an academic position at Monash, Prof. MacFarlane received his BS with Honors from Victoria University of Wellington, and PhD with the late Prof. Austen Angell at Purdue University. He was appointed professor at Monash in 1995 and has been Head of School and Deputy Dean of Science for various periods since then. In 2012, he was awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship that allowed him to dedicate his time entirely to research. His interests include the chemistry and application of ionic liquids, including in electrochemistry applications in renewable energy storage. Prof. MacFarlane has published more than 800 papers and holds 30 patents; these have been cited more than 78,000 times with an h-index of 134. He has been a Clarivate “highly cited author” since 2019. In 2018, he was the 2018 Australian Academy of Science’s Craig Medalist and winner of the Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation. Prof. MacFarlane was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2007 and the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2009. His group was recently awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2023 Horizon Prize for Environment,
Sustainability and Energy. To scale up the ammonia production technology his group developed, he recently co-founded a spin-out company, Jupiter Ionics P/L.
Stefano Cinti is Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacy at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II where he leads the uniNanobiosensors Lab. His research interests include the development of electrochemical sensors, portable diagnostics, paper-based devices, and nanomaterials.
Prof. Cinti completed a PhD in Chemical Sciences at the Università di Roma Tor Vergata in 2016 in the group headed by Prof. Giuseppe Palleschi. His research activity has brought him to Finland, the UK, the US, Germany, and Spain. He has published more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals, with an h-index of 33 and >4000 citations. His research has been recognized by many awards, including the Biosensors 2022 Young Investigator Award and 2022 Early Career Analytical Electrochemistry Prize of ISE Division 1. The Italian Chemical Society named him 2019 Best Young Researcher in Analytical Chemistry and 2018 Best Young Researcher in Bio-Analytical Chemistry. He was included in Stanford University’s 2021 and 2022 World’s Top 2% Scientists. Prof. Cinti is the coordinator of the Chemical Cultural Diffusion group of the Italian Chemical Society and Chair of AMYC-BIOMED, a multidisciplinary conference for young chemists in the biomedical sciences. He is very active in communicating science to nonspecialized audiences through TV shows, radio, and magazines.
Shuhui Sun is Full Professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications. His research interests focus on nanomaterials for electrochemical energy science and technologies, including H2 fuel cells, green hydrogen generation, lithium batteries, metal-air batteries, Na-ion/ Zn-ion batteries, and CO2 reduction.
Prof. Sun is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, member of the Royal Society of Canada, and Vice President of the International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Science. He serves as the Executive Editor-in-Chief of Electrochemical Energy Reviews, Associate Editor of Sustainable Materials and Technologies, and editorial board member of more than 10 journals related to nanotechnology and clean energy. He has published more than 280 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Sustainability, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Energy & Environmental Science, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Angewandte Chemie. He has given more than 120 invited, keynote, and plenary lectures at prestigious conferences and meetings as well as seminars at universities and research institutions around the world. Prof. Sun has edited three books, authored 15 book chapters, and holds five US patents. His recent awards include the 2021 International Association for Hydrogen Energy Research Award, 2020 Canadian Catalysis Lectureship Award, elected member of the 2017 Global Young Academy, 2017 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Novel Materials Youth Prize, and 2017 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship.
Patrik Schmuki is Full Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and head of the Institute for Surface Science and Corrosion. His research focuses on the field of electrochemical materials science. In particular, he has carried out pioneering work on the electrochemical growth of selforganized nanotubular transition metal oxide layers: their synthesis, properties, modification, and functional applications. The focus of his research activities in the last decade has been on photocatalytic systems based on titania, or other functional oxide nanostructures. His most recent research explores single atom noble metal co-catalysts for the photocatalytic generation of hydrogen.
Prof. Schmuki studied Physical Chemistry at Universität Basel and obtained his PhD from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich in 1992. After research stays at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he used synchrotron techniques for thin-film studies, and the National Research Council of Canada, where his research focused on surface phenomena on Si and III-V semiconductors, in 1997 he was appointed Associate Professor for Microstructuring of Materials at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. In 2000, he joined FAU’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He has been Guest Principal Investigator (PI) and/ or Visiting Professor at the Université de Bourgogne, King Abdulaziz University, and Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci.
The author of more than 750 publications in peer-reviewed journals, his h-index is 114. Prof. Schmuki was a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher from 2013 to 2021. He is a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society, International Society of Electrochemistry, and Royal Society of Chemistry, and recipient of numerous awards, including the ETH Medal, Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowships for Advanced Researchers, and the PROFIL grant, the NACE H.H. Uhlig Award, ECS Volta Award, and ECS H.H. Uhlig Award, as well as the Rudolf Zahradnik Award and Giulio Natta Award. He received prestigious Reinhart Koselleck Funding from the German Research Foundation and was awarded an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant. An active member of ECS and the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), he has served these societies in many functions, including chairing the ECS Europe Section, ECS Corrosion Division, and ISE Division 4 (Electrochemical Materials Science).
Yue Zhang is a PhD student at the University of British Columbia (UBC) where she is taking a leading role in developing cleaner, safer, and more powerful batteries in Dr. Jian Liu’s Advanced Materials for Energy Storage Group. Zhang has made exceptional progress in pushing the boundaries for next-generation batteries.
Zhang received her MS from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. As first author, she has published her research findings in ten journals, including Advanced Functional Materials, Nano Energy, Energy Storage Materials, Small, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, and Carbon. Zhang was an invited participant in the 2022 UBC Campaign Forward happens (continued on next page)
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here. She has received awards that include the 2022 PICS (Pacific Institute for Climate Science) Award for Leadership in Engaged Research, 2022 ECS Best Paper Award Sponsored by Neware, 2021 Mitacs Globalink Award, 2021 ECS Canada Section Fall Symposium Oral Presentation Award, 2020 and 2021 UBC University Graduate Fellowship, and 2013 and 2017 Chinese National Scholarship.
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Chih-Hsuan (Doris) Hung is a PhD candidate under the supervision of Prof. Corie L. Cobb at the University of Washington and co-mentored by Dr. Srikanth Allu at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Her research focuses on the computational design and modeling of new electrode architectures for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Her goal is to develop design methodologies and tools for electrode architectures that help enhance the performance and safety of existing battery materials for vehicle electrification.
Hung holds a BS from the University of Kentucky and an MS from the University of Washington; both degrees are in Mechanical Engineering. She has published papers and given talks at ECS meetings on how electrode architectures made with different LIB materials can increase cell capacity and rate capability if designed appropriately. Using a physics-based electrochemical model built by ORNL, Hung modeled a range of electrode architectures and developed metrics to quantify and compare the performance of
different electrode architectures based on current density nonuniformity. In a recent ACS Energy Letters paper, Hung analyzed historical LIB data from the literature and revealed the impact of electrode architecture on rate capability, rate-limiting mechanisms, and application scale. As Hung progresses toward completing her PhD, she plans to investigate the impact of electrode architecture on LIB thermal behavior and plating mechanisms. After graduation, Hung hopes to have a career in industry or a national laboratory where she can continue to investigate new battery technologies for effective, safe, and sustainable energy storage.
Yaoli Zhao is a PhD student working in Thomas Thundat’s lab at University at Buffalo, specializing in the field of chemical detection. Her current research focuses on developing innovative standoff detection sensors, specifically for plastic classification. Zhao has successfully developed techniques and demonstrated methods for molecular identification of plastics, resulting in the publication of multiple research papers in refereed journals, including one as a corresponding author in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society
Zhao serves as President of the ECS Student Chapter at University at Buffalo. She has received notable awards, including travel grants for the 243rd ECS Meeting and 2023 GSA. She won 2nd Prize in the Keysight Innovation Challenge and was chosen to be a graduate student speaker at the University at Buffalo’s Graduate Research Symposium. She enjoys recreational activities such as skiing, snowboarding, roller skating, climbing, swimming, badminton, and volleyball. Zhao has maintained a consistent workout routine for over three years and is a license-holding motorcycle enthusiast.
Nomination Deadline: April 15, 2024
Nomination Deadline: April 15, 2024
ECS has named 15 members to the 2023 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. These members 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 this honor.
Martin Z. Bazant is the E. G. Roos (1944) Professor of Chemical Engineering and Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also serves as President of the International Electrokinetics Society, Director of Data-Driven Design of Rechargeable Batteries (D3BATT), Director of the Center for Battery Sustainability, Chief Scientific Advisor for Saint-Gobain Research North America, and Chief Scientist for Lithios, an MIT startup company he co-founded to develop advanced lithium extraction from brines using electrochemistry. His research focuses on transport phenomena, microfluidics, electrokinetics, electrochemical systems, and applied mathematics.
After completing a PhD in Physics at Harvard (1997), he joined the MIT faculty in Mathematics (1998) and then in Chemical Engineering (2008), where he served as Executive Officer from 2016 to 2020. Prof. Bazant has received awards that include the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) Alexander Kuznetsov Prize in Theoretical Electrochemistry, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering, and MITx Prize for Teaching in MOOCs. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, American Physical Society, and International Society of Electrochemistry.
Jeffrey Blackburn is a Senior Scientist, Distinguished Member of the Research Staff, and Group Manager of the Materials Physics Group at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). He studies charge transfer, energy transfer, and excited state dynamics in low-dimensional materials for energy conversion and storage. His research interests include solar photoconversion, energy-efficient information processing, thermoelectric energy conversion, and (photo)catalytic processes.
Dr. Blackburn received his BS in Chemistry from Wake Forest University and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Colorado Boulder. For his dissertation, Dr. Blackburn worked primarily at NREL with Dr. Arthur Nozik, studying ultra-fast relaxation and charge-transfer processes occurring in semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) and QD interfaces. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Michael Heben at NREL, focusing on the applications of low-dimensional carbon in hydrogen storage and photovoltaics. Dr. Blackburn’s h-index is 55, with over 10,278 citations. He joined ECS in 2008 and has been active in the governance of the ECS Nanocarbons Division since 2014. He currently serves as division chair.
Teruhisa Horita is Director of the Research Institute for Energy Conservation (iECO), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan. Dr. Horita’s most prominent work is the visualization of ionic motions at the functional materials in SOFCs using secondary ion mass spectrometry, which opened new insights into electrochemical
analytical tools and contributed to improving the performance and durability of SOFCs.
In 1992, Dr. Horita joined the National Chemical Laboratory for Industry in Japan (formerly AIST) as a research scientist. In 2018–2019, he was the project leader of the SOFC durability improvements, NEDO Japanese project. Since 2020, he has led the NEDO project “Development of advanced evaluation and analysis technologies for the durability of SOFC stacks.” Through these national Japanese projects, his work has contributed to the commercialization of SOFC small systems.
Dr. Horita has published more than 210 original papers and received several patents. He was awarded the 2021 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Japanese Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. Dr. Horita is Vice President of The SOFC Society of Japan and serves on the organizing committees of academic meetings, including the SOFC symposium series. He was Chairperson of the 17th International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells in 2021 (SOFC-XVII) and SOFC-XVIII (2023). Dr. Horita currently serves as the Secretary/Treasurer of the ECS High-Temperature Energy, Materials, & Processes Division.
Ajit Khosla is Distinguished Professor in the School of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology at Xidian University and Yamagata University. His research is interdisciplinary, bridging disciplines with a focus on fabrication, development, implementation of “artificial intelligence–powered chemical and biological sensor array systems” for healthcare and environmental monitoring that addresses real-world problems, thereby improving quality of life.
Prof. Khosla received his PhD from Simon Fraser University. There he was awarded the 2012 Dean of Graduate Studies Convocation Medal as one of SFU’s most outstanding graduate students for his work developing novel micro-patternable multifunctional nanocomposite materials for flexible nano- and micro-systems.
Prof. Khosla is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and author of more than 180 publications in refereed journals and five books, and holds five US patents. He is the Founding Editorin-Chief of ECS Sensors Plus, one of ECS’s first gold open access journals, and Technical Editor for the Sensors topical interest area of the Journal of The Electrochemical Society and ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology. A champion of ECS’s diversity, equity, inclusion, and access mission, he led the JES Women in Electrochemistry focus issue. Prof. Khosla is the Chair and Founder of the ICTSGS and 4DMS+SoRo conference series.
Po-Tsun Liu is currently Chair Professor, Department of Photonics, and Director of the Display Research Center at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. He has garnered international acclaim for his noteworthy contributions to thin-film transistors (TFTs) and TFT-based functional devices/circuits, which are pivotal for advancing solid state electronics in emerging
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fields, including current drivers, photo-sensors, nonvolatile memory devices, and monolithic 3D-ICs technologies.
Prof. Liu received his Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from National Chiao Tung University (now known as National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University). He is the author of more than 400 journal papers and conference proceedings, with more than 7,000 citations, and has over 186 granted patents, many of which have been licensed to panel makers in Taiwan and used in product applications. The Taiwan International Invention Award Winners Association honored him with the International Inventor Prize and Lifetime Achievement Academic Award. Prof. Liu has been actively involved in the TFT symposium at ECS/PRiME meetings as co-organizer, section chair, and invited speaker. He served as faculty advisor of the ECS National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Student Chapter when it was founded in 2020. Prof. Liu is an elected Fellow of IEEE, SID, and OPTICA.
Robert Mantz assumed the role of Principal Director for Renewable Energy Generation and Storage at the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering in June 2023. In this position, he spearheads the strategic direction for implementing renewable energy solutions across the US Department of Defense (DoD) while coordinating scientific and technical development activities.
Dr. Mantz obtained a BS in Chemistry at the United States Air Force Academy and holds an MS and PhD in Chemistry from California State University. Most recently, Dr. Mantz served as the Principal Deputy for Extramural Competency Investments at the US Army Research Office, where he managed annual extramural basic research investments of over $325 million. In this role, he played a crucial part in enabling vital future Army technologies and capabilities through high-risk, high-payoff research opportunities. Prior to that, Dr. Mantz held the position of Chief of the Engineering Sciences Division at the Army Research Office and Chief of the Chemical Sciences Division, where he funded fundamental research for advanced future power sources and led the division’s efforts in advancing engineering sciences. He joined the Army Research Office in 2006 as the Electrochemistry Program Manager, where he funded research to develop advanced power sources for soldiers. Dr. Mantz’s career has also included his appointment as a Program Manager in the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Strategic Technology Office. He oversaw the Biofuels and Deployable Energy Storage programs during his tenure, driving advancements in these critical areas.
Before transitioning to his civilian roles, Dr. Mantz served as an Air Force Reservist and held significant positions within the Air Force. He served as the Mobilization Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisition Integration, where he played a pivotal role in planning, managing, and analyzing the Air Force’s research and development and acquisition investment budget. Additionally, he served as the Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officer (EPLO) and Air Force Senior Director to FEMA Region III, contributing to emergency preparedness efforts. He also served in the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Research Laboratory as Detachment 14 Commander and acting AFOSR Deputy Director. Dr. Mantz retired from the US Air Force with the rank of Colonel.
Nazario Martín is Full Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Vice Director of the IMDEA-Nanoscience Institute. He has received honorary doctorate degrees from Universidad de La Habana and Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. His research focuses on molecular and supramolecular chemistry of carbon nanostructures in the context of chirality, electron transfer, and biomedical and photovoltaic applications.
From 2015 to 2019, Prof. Martín was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Materials Chemistry (A, B, and C) of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was President of the Confederation of Scientific Societies of Spain (2015–2019) and Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (2006–2012). He held the European Research Council Advanced CHIRALLCARBON Grant from 2013 to 2019 and 2020 European Research Council Synergy Grant for the TOMATTO project. Prof. Martín has published more than 600 peer-reviewed papers and supervised 50 theses. He has served as co-editor of seven scientific books and guest editor in 14 special issues of important scientific journals.
Prof. Martín is a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain and a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Academia Europaea, and Chemistry Europe. Important awards Prof. Martín has received include the 2020 Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation Enrique Moles Award—the most prestigious Spanish National Award in Chemistry; 2015 Miguel Catalán Research Award of the Community of Madrid; 2013 ECS Richard E. Smalley Research Award; 2013 Alexander von Humboldt Award; 2012 Gold Medal and Research Award of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry; and 2012 Rey Jaime I Award for Basic Research. He delivered the 2012 EuChems lecture. He is a member of international and national committees, including the Scientific-Technical Committee of the State Research Agency of Spain. A member at large of the ECS Nanocarbon Division, Prof. Martín has published in Interface and was co-editor of the 2000 ECS book Chemistry of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes.
John Muldoon is Senior Principal Scientist at the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA). Dr. Muldoon has consistently contributed to Toyota’s sustainable mobility platforms, studying materials for fuel cells, batteries, and carbon dioxide capture and conversion. His outstanding research leadership has greatly contributed to the company’s beyond lithiumion battery research programs, shaping global research trends on multivalent ion, lithium sulfur, and solid state lithium metal batteries.
Dr. Muldoon received a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry from Queens University Belfast in 1997. In 2002, he completed his PhD at the University of Notre Dame under the direction of Prof. Seth Brown, specializing in organometallic chemistry. He worked as a research associate at Scripps Research under Prof. Barry Sharpless (2001 and 2022 Nobel laureate in Chemistry) and Prof. Valery Fokin, establishing early applications of click chemistry.
Dr. Muldoon has received more than 6000 citations and holds more than 35 patents. He is an active member of ECS, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), American Chemical Society, and Materials Research Society. As a member of the ECS Battery Division, he was instrumental in establishing symposia on beyond Li-ion battery research. To advocate for the development of younger scientists, he cultivated the relationship between ECS and Toyota, which resulted in the establishment of the ECS Toyota Young
Investigator Fellowship in 2016. Dr. Muldoon is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and recipient of the 2023 ECS Battery Division Technology Award.
Mikael Östling is Professor of Solid State Electronics at the Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (KTH). His research interests are nanoscaled Si and Ge device technologies, emerging 2D materials, and device technology for wide bandgap semiconductors for high-power/high-temperature applications.
Prof. Östling received his MSc and PhD degrees from Uppsala universitet. From 2004 to 2012, he served as KTH’s Dean of the School of Information and Communication Technology, then Deputy President from 2017 to 2022. Prof. Östling was a senior visiting Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University and Visiting Professor at the University of Florida. In 2005, he co-founded the company TranSiC, which Fairchild Semiconductor acquired in 2011. He was awarded the first European Research Council Grant for Advanced Investigators. He has supervised 48 PhD theses and co-authored more than 600 scientific papers published in international journals and conferences.
An active member of ECS since 1984, Prof. Östling has published frequently in ECS journals and given invited presentations at ECS spring and fall meetings. He helped organize and has been actively involved in the biannual ECS symposium International SiGe, Ge, & Related Compounds: Materials, Processing, and Devices since 2006, as well as the editorial process of the corresponding ECS Transactions An IEEE Fellow, Prof. Östling was an editor of IEEE Electron Device Letters from 2005 to 2014, appointed Vice President of the Electron Devices Society from 2014 to 2015, and Editor in Chief of the IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society from 2016 to 2019.
Bryan Pivovar is Senior Research Fellow and Electrochemical Engineering and Materials Chemistry Group Manager in the Chemistry and Nanosciences Center at NREL. He oversees NREL’s electrolysis and fuel cell and materials R&D, spanning PEM, alkaline membrane, and liquid alkaline technologies. He has been a pioneer in areas of fuel cell and electrolyzer development, taking on leadership roles and organizing workshops in the areas of subfreezing effects, alkaline membrane fuel cells (2006, 2011, 2016, and 2019), renewable hydrogen at the gigaton scale (2019), advanced materials for PEM electrolysis (2022), and advanced liquid alkaline electrolysis (2022). Dr. Pivovar is Director of the US Department of Energy (DOE)-funded H2NEW (Hydrogen from Next-generation Electrolyzers of Water) Consortium, which focuses on addressing components, materials integration, and manufacturing R&D to enable manufacturable electrolyzers that meet required cost, durability, and performance targets, simultaneously, to enable $1/kg hydrogen by 2031.
Before joining NREL, Dr. Pivovar received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and led fuel cell R&D at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was instrumental in leading the US National Lab activities that evolved into the H2@Scale vision championed by the US DOE. The co-author of more than 150 papers with more than 15,000 citations in the general area of fuel cells and electrolysis, he received the 2012 ECS Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award and the 2021 ECS Energy Technology Division Research Award.
Minhua Shao is Cheong Ying Chan Professor of Energy Engineering and Environment, Chaired Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is also Director of the HKUST Energy Institute.
After completing his BS (1999) and MS (2002) in Chemistry at Xiamen University, Prof. Shao received a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering (2006) from the State University of New York at Stony Brook under the supervision of Dr. Radoslav Adzic Dr. Shao joined UTC Power in 2007, leading the development of advanced electrocatalysts for fuel cells, and was promoted to UTC Technical Fellow in 2012. He worked at the Ford Motor Company in 2013, researching lithium-ion batteries, until he joined HKUST in 2014.
An Associate Editor of the Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Dr. Shao has published more than 240 peer-reviewed articles, edited one book, and filed over 30 patent applications (19 issued). His received awards include the 2022 International Outstanding Young Chemical Engineer Award and the 2014 ECS Energy Technology Division Supramaniam Srinivasan Young Investigator Award. He is a founding member of the Hong Kong Young Academy of Science.
Peter Strasser is Chaired Professor of Electrochemistry and Electrocatalysis in the Chemical Engineering Division of the Technische Universität Berlin. His interests range from electrocatalytic oscillations to high throughput catalyst discovery to fundamental understanding of electrified catalytic interfaces for clean energy technologies.
Prof. Strasser studied chemistry at Universität Tübingen, Stanford University, and Università degli Studi di Padova, and received his PhD in Physical Electrochemistry under Gerhard Ertl at the Fritz-Haber-Institut Max-Planck-Institut. He worked at Symyx Technologies as a Postdoctoral Associate and Senior Staff Scientist, then served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston.
Recognition of Prof. Strasser’s work includes the 2022 f-cell Award, 2021 European Fuel Cell Forum Christian Friedrich Schönbein Gold Medal of Honour, 2021 Royal Society of Chemistry Faraday Medal, the 2020 ISE Brian Conway Prize for Physical Electrochemistry, 2018 International Association for Hydrogen Energy Sir William Grove Award, 2016 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Katalyse Otto-Roelen Medal, and 1999 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Otto–Hahn-Medal. He is a Fellow of ISE. Prof. Strasser and his team have authored more than 350 journal publications and edited the book High-Throughput Screening in Chemical Catalysis. A named inventor on 19 issued US and European patents, he has mentored spin-off companies which commercialized technology from his labs, including DexLeChem and Liquid Loop. Prof. Strasser has co-organized the PEFC&E Fuel Cell and Electrolyzer symposia for over a decade at ECS fall meetings. He happily drives a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle that he would not trade for a battery vehicle.
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Alice Suroviec is the Dean of Mathematical and Natural Sciences and Professor of Bioanalytical Chemistry at Berry College. Her research focuses on using modified surfaces to increase the detection limits of biologically interesting analytes. She has worked on self-assembled monolayers on gold, enzymatically modified biosensors, as well as electrochemistry education.
Prof. Suroviec received her BS in Chemistry from Allegheny College in 2000 and her PhD in Chemistry from Virginia Tech under Dr. Mark R. Anderson in 2005. She taught at Concordia College from 2005 to 2007 while working in Dr. Vicki Gelling’s North Dakota State University Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials lab. In 2007, she began work at Berry College in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, where she was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2013 and Professor in 2019. Prof. Suroviec has directed more than 30 undergraduates in electrochemistry research in her lab.
Prof. Suroviec has served as the Associate Editor for the Journal of The Electrochemical Society for the Physical and Analytical topical interest area since 2016. She chaired the ECS Physical and Analytical Division (2017–2019), was a member of the Individual Membership Committee and Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Subcommittee, and currently chairs the Education Committee. Prof. Suroviec has led or co-organized more than 20 symposia with special emphasis on the Education in Electrochemistry Symposium and the Z01 Student Poster Session. She is a contributing editor for ECS Interface
Chunsheng Wang is the Robert Franklin and Frances Riggs Wright Distinguished Chair Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland (UMD) College Park. He is also a co-founder and UMD Director of The Center for Research in Extreme Batteries. His research focuses on electrode and electrolyte materials for advanced batteries. He developed water-insalt electrolytes, extending the aqueous electrolyte stability window
Prof. Wang completed his PhD at Zhejiang University in 1995. He received the 2021 ECS Battery Division Research Award, 2021 and 2015 UMD Invention of the Year Awards, and 2004 NASA Technology Brief Patent Application and Software Release Award. Clarivate has listed Dr. Wang as a Highly Cited Researcher every year since 2018. He has published more than 340 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and his research has been cited more than 56,000 times with an h-index of 123. His patents have been licensed by companies for commercialization. Prof. Wang is an Associate Editor of ACS Applied Energy Materials.
Bilge Yildiz is the Breene M. Kerr (1951) Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Departments of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, and she leads the Laboratory for Electrochemical Interfaces. Prof. Yildiz’s research focuses on laying the scientific groundwork to enable nextgeneration electrochemical devices. The scientific insights derived from her research guide the design of novel materials and interfaces for efficient and durable solid oxide fuel and electrolysis cells, brain-inspired computing, and solid state batteries. Prof. Yildiz’s laboratory has significantly contributed to advancing the molecular-level understanding of oxygen reduction, ion diffusion, charge transfer, and electrochemical control of physical properties in mixed conducting oxides.
Prof. Yildiz earned her PhD in Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT (2003) and her BSc at Hacettepe University (1999). Before returning to MIT as a faculty member in 2007, she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT and a Research Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. Her research and teaching efforts have been recognized by the 2022 Rahmi M. Koç Medal of Science, 2018 Ross Coffin Purdy Award, 2012 ECS Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award, 2012 Somiya Award for International Collaboration, 2011–2016 NSF CAREER Awards, 2008 ANS Faculty PAI Outstanding Teaching Award, and 2006 Argonne National Laboratory Pacesetter Award. She was elected to the Austrian Academy of Science in 2023 and named Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2021.
ECS is proud to announce the following new members for April, May, and June 2023 (Members are listed alphabetically by family/last name.)
Iwnetim Abate, Cambridge, MA, USA
Srikanth Arisetty, Novi, MI, USA
Mohammad Aziz, Ithaca, NY, USA
Srinidi Badhrinathan, Waltham, MA, USA
Laleh Bahadori, Waltham, MA, USA
Sanjoy Banerjee, Pearl River, NY, USA
Jane Banner, Concord, MA, USA
Sepideh Behboudikhiavi, Schiedam, South Holland, Netherlands
Alberto Bianco, Strasbourg, Grand Est, France
Brennan Campbell, San Jose, CA, USA
Michelle Carbonell, Daet, Camarines Norte, Philippines
Thomas Carney, Northborough, MA, USA
Arnab Chakrabarty, League City, TX, USA
Ai-Lin Chan, Golden, CO, USA
Gen Chen, Changsha, Hunan, China
Myunghoon Choi, San Jose, CA, USA
Wonjoon Choi, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Kathryn Coletti, Auburndale, MA, USA
Thomas Collet, Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Michael Costello, Auburndale, MA, USA
Bogdan Cretu, Caen, Normandy, France
Thijs de Groot, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Shinichi Endo, Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Ejikeme Ezeigwe, Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
Norman Fleck, Cambridge, England, UK
Yongzhu Fu, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
Imre Gyuk, Washington, DC, USA
Alastair Hales, Bristol, England, UK
Shintaro Hayabe, Ichihara-shi, Chiba, Japan
J. A. Hoffman, Cambridge, MA, USA
Md Jamil Hossain, Woonsocket, RI, USA
Jier Huang, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
Tai-Feng Hung, New Taipei City, Taipei, Taiwan
Robert Hyers, Worcester, MA, USA
Takanori Igarashi, Hagagun, Tochigi, Japan
Alexander Imbault, Sierra Madre, CA, USA
Misa Inamoto, Tokyo Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Kate Jesse, Santa Fe, NM, USA
De-en Jiang, Nashville, TN, USA
Ivy Jones, Chicago, IL, USA
Thomas Jung, Villigen PSI, Aargau, Switzerland
Georgios Katsoukis, Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
Harminder Kaur, Chandigarh, CH, India
Munawar Khalil, Depok, Jabar, Indonesia
Safyan Khan, Dhahran, El Hasa Province, Saudi Arabia
Ju-Myung Kim, Richland, WA, USA
Hiroki Kondo, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Matthias Kuehne, Providence, RI, USA
Judith Lattimer, Newton, MA, USA
Seung Woo Lee, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Jerome Leveneur, Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
Gonghu Li, Durham, NH, USA
Hui Li, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Site Li, Billerica, MA, USA
Chang Liu, Golden, CO, USA
Sufu Liu, Dübendorf, ZH, Switzerland
Ting Liu, Billerica, MA, USA
Yao Liu, Shanghai, Shanghai, China
David Loveday, Warrington, PA, USA
Mei Luo, Westmont, IL, USA
Zhengtang Luo, Clear Water Bay, Sai Kung, Hong Kong
Jose Marques-Hueso, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Ronald Maus, Everberg, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Stephen McCatty, Auburndale, MA, USA
Tomáš Mikysek, Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic
Perry Motsegood, Sammamish, WA, USA
Arindam Mukhopadhyay, Idaho Falls, ID, USA N
Supreeth Nagendran, Cambridge, England, UK
Asalatha Nair, Amherst, NY, USA
Hitoshi Naito, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Shu Ni, Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
Tim Norman, Burlington, MA, USA
Hideyuki Okada, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, Japan
Revathy Padmanabhan, Palakkad, KL, India
Eleonora Pargoletti, Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Woosung Park, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Gyeonggido, ROK
Sylwia Pawlak, Gdańsk, Pomorze, Poland
Patricia-Lia Pop-Ghe, Natick, MA, USA
Adam Powell, Worcester, MA, USA
Ken Pradel, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Prachi Pragnya, Ballston Lake, NY, USA
Max Pupucevski, Waltham, MA, USA
Tobias Reier, Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Daniel Saccomando, Derby, England, UK
Anunay Samanta, Hyderabad, TG, India
Espen Sandnes, Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
Saswati Santra, Garching bei München, Bavaria, Germany
Takuro Sasaki, Hagagun, Tochigi, Japan
Satoko Sato, Kofu-si, Yamanashi, Japan
Min Jia Saw, Katsushika-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Surajit Sengupta, Cambridge, ON, Canada
Yeong-chan Seo, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Meikun Shen, Eugene, OR, USA
Daisuke Shiomi, Haga-machi, Haga-gun, Tochigi, Japan
Robert Sikora, San Jose, CA, USA
Scott Storbakken, Waltham, MA, USA
Derek Strasser, Marlborough, MA, USA
Raneen Taha, Sterling Heights, MI, USA
Yoshinori Takao, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Jing Tang, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Jun Tatebayashi, Suita, Osaka, Japan
Jyh-Ming Ting, Tainan, East District, Taiwan
Yosuke Ugata, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Alina Vasilescu, Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Xiaojing Wang, Los Alamos, NM, USA
John Waugh, Ypsilanti, MI, USA
Andrew Weber, Auburndale, MA, USA
Janusz Wijtiwiak, Gdańsk, Pomorze, Poland
Billy Wu, London, England, UK
Hui Xia, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
William Yerazunis, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abdurrahman Yilmaz, Burlington, MA, USA
Kyungmin Yim, New York, NY, USA
Dong-Joo Yoo, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Linghui Yu, Wuhan, Hubei, China
Aleksandar Zeradjanin, Mülheim an der Ruhr, NRW, Germany
Jian Zhao, Tianjin, Hebei, China
Nagmani, Kharagpur, WB, India
Md Ridwan Adib, Cork, Ireland, UK
Alec Agee, Cambridge, MA, USA
Ahmed Agour, Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Najmeh Ahledel, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Adnan Ahmed, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Loujain Ahmed Ghanem, New Cairo, Giza, Egypt
Mait Ainsar, Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Abdallah Akar, New Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Samson Akindoye, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Mohammed Al Murisi, Columbia, SC, USA
Sara Alanany, New Cairo, Giza, Egypt
Faraj Al-badani, Notre Dame, IN, USA
Norah Alghamdi, Saint Lucia, Queensland, Australia
Rashad Ali, Columbia, SC, USA
Ronak Ali, Lexington, KY, USA
Andressa Juliana Almeida Simoes, Urbana, IL, USA
Omar Alshangiti, Oxford, England, UK
Emiliano Alvarez Garcés, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
Afaaf Alvi, Padova, Veneto, Italy
Senan Amireh, Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Mahmoud Amirsalehi, Columbia, SC, USA
Shanmugavani Amirthalingam, Tirupur, TN, India
Davide Arcoraci, Torino, Piemonte, Italy
Penwuanna Arin, Pranakorn sri Ayutthaya, Central Thailand, Thailand
Vipada Aupama, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Phitchapa Ausamanwet, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand
Auwal Auwal, Kano, Gwale, Kano, Nigeria
Prajwal Ayadathil, Mumbai, MH, India
Toyin Ayandokun, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Ibrahim Badawy, Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Zeynep Bagbudar, Cleveland, OH, USA
Thomas Baker, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Pubali Barman, Bangalore, KA, India
Mojtaba Barzegari, Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Katherine Bateman, Leuchars, Scotland, USA
Vasant Batta, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Katherine Bazin, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Silan Bhandari, Stillwater, OK, USA
Alexander Bills, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Donald Bistri, Atlanta, GA, USA
Merle Blum, Watertown, MA, USA
Lalith Krishna Samanth Bonagiri, Urbana, IL, USA
Marco Bonechi, Sesto Fiorentino, Toscana, Italy
Hannah Bosch, Garching bei München, Bavaria, Germany
Tom Boetticher, Münster, NRW, Germany
Kameron Bradbury, Chicago, IL, USA
Martin Brischetto, Seattle, WA, USA
Chandima Bulumulla, Frederick, MD, USA
Simona Buzzi, Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Sean Byrne, Pasadena, CA, USA
Evan Carlson, Redwood City, CA, USA
Laurie Carrier, Halifax, NS, Canada
Angelina Castro Trujillo, Vienna, Bundesland, Austria
Sofia Catalina, Harvard, MA, USA
John Cattermull, Oxford, England, UK
Kelsey Cavallaro, Atlanta, GA, USA
Wookil Chae, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Bradley Chambers, San Antonio, TX, USA
Aruna Chandran, Notre Dame, IN, USA
Wanhyuk Chang, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Payal Chaudhary, Lincoln, NE, USA
Shabdiki Chaurasia, Lowell, MA, USA
Chieh-Ting Chen, Hsinchu, Hsinchu County, Taiwan
Lihaokun Chen, Eugene, OR, USA
Shang Chi Chien, Hsinchu, Hsinchu County, Taiwan
JiHwan Choi, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Sangyong Choi, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Heejung Chung, Cambridge, MA, USA
Elena Colombo, Dairago, Lombardia, Italy
Faith Cousin, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Ayssia Crockem, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Jesús Cruz Marrufo, San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo León, México
Mamta Dagar, Rochester, NY, USA
Michael Danner, Hyattsville, MD, USA
Roy Daou, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Walid Daoud, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon City, Hong Kong
Brigita Darminto, Oxford, England, UK
Rubul Das, Mumbai, MH, India
Jesse de Boer, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Ana De La Fuente Duran, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Damien Degoulange, Paris, Île-de-France, France
Nipon Deka, Leiden, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
Piyush Deshpande, South Bend, IN, USA
Hannah Dewey, Raleigh, NC, USA
Penghui Ding, Norrköping, Östergötland, Sweden
Brianna Doucette, Ashland, MA, USA
Sören Dreyer, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, BW, Germany
Kangjun Duan, Ulm, BW, Germany
Jeroen Dubbeld, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands
Luis Duque, Madrid, MAD, Spain
Palika Durga Prasad, Chennai, TN, India
Jyotirekha Dutta, Hyderabad, TG, India
Lilian Ekowo, South Bend, IN, USA
Heba El Sharkawy, New Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Reham Elfarargy, Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Fouad Elgamal, Oakville, ON, Canada
Nada Elselanty, New Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Felicitas Ene, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Dongguen Eom, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Mert Can Erer, Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Eylul Ergun, Lowell, MA, USA
Mina Faltas, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Manon Faral, Montréal-Nord, QC, Canada
Mark-David Flores, Deer Park, TX, USA
Kwabena Fobi, Stillwater, OK, USA
Edward Fratto, Lowell, MA, USA
Natsumi Fujiwara, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Elias Galiounas, London, Greater London, UK
Chen Ganwen, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Matthew Garayt, Halifax, NS, Canada
Daphne Garcia, Seattle, WA, USA
Abhishek Garg, Bengaluru, KA, India
Leslie Gates, Boston, MA, USA
Christian Geiger, Garching, Bavaria, Germany
Muhammad Ghufron, Malang, Jatim, Indonesia
Daniel Gil, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Inmaculada Giménez García, Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
DNachiket Gokhale, Kanpur, UP, India
Aya Gomaa, New Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Storm Gourley, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Zaida Gracia, Lubbock, TX, USA
Asa Green, Chicago, IL, USA
Dharanivasan Gunasekaran, RishonLezion, Central District, Israel
Xiaoyang Guo, Trondheim, Sor-Trondelag, Norway
Bikesh Gupta, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Kim Han Hwi, Changwon-Si, Chungcheongnam-do, ROK
Emily Hayward, Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Manar Hazaa, New Cairo، Cairo Governorate, Giza, Egypt
Anbang He, Chongqing, Chongqing, China
André Hemmelder, Salzbergen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Jakob Hesper, Münster, NRW, Germany
Jayendra Himanshu, Sitamarhi, Bihar, India
Andrew Hoadley, Cohasset, MA, USA
Henning Hoene, Woburn, MA, USA
Christian Höß, Ilmenau, Thuringia, Germany
Hendrik Hoffmann, Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany
Richard Hoft, Washington, DC, USA
Micaela Homer, Seattle, WA, USA
Guillaume Hopsort, Toulouse, Occitanie, France
Rens Horst, Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, Lincoln, NE, USA
Po-Yuan Huang, Oxford, England, UK
Xiaozhou Huang, Naperville, IL, USA
Grayson Huldin, South Bend, IN, USA
Amjad Hussain, Daejeon, South Chungcheong, ROK
Jaewon Hwang, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Junho Hwang, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Olusola Idowu, Din Daeng, Bangkok, Thailand
Mutsuki Inagaki, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Monet Irvin, New Orleans, LA, USA
Abdelrahman Ismail, Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Elizabeth Jacobia, Durham, NC, USA
Rémy Jacquemond, Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands
Sarah Jankhani, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Jonah Jarczewski, Plymouth, MI, USA
Atif Javed, Münster, NRW, Germany
SeongWon Jeon, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Eunju Jeong, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Heon Jun Jeong, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Inyoung Jeong, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Tongtai Ji, Chelsea, MA, USA
Yuefan Ji, Bellevue, WA, USA
Yoon Ji Sung, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Shipeng Jia, Montréal, QC, Canada
Dustin Johnson, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Josin Jose, St Andrews, Scotland, UK
Amritha Kadathamana, Manjeri, KL, India
Seyedeh Marzieh Kalantarian, London, ON, Canada
Laura Kalder, Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia
Valentina Kallina, Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony, Germany
Rin Kamino, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Wooseok Kang, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Prashanth Kannan, Chennai, TN, India
Guna Bahadur Karki, San Antonio, TX, USA
Kuldeep Kaswan, Hsinchu City, Hsinchu County, Taiwan
Abbas Kazi, Lowell, MA, USA
Rajesh Keloth, Lincoln, NE, USA
Ghada Khedr, New Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Divyansh Khurana, Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Ilgyu Kim, Ulsan, Yeongnam, ROK
Kyungmin Kim, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Min Ju Kim, Changwon si, Gyeongsangnamdo, ROK
Minji Kim, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Na-Yeong Kim, Ulsan, Gyeongsangnam-do, ROK
Sewon Kim, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Sunghyeon Kim, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Taejung Kim, Ulsan, Gyeongsangnam-do, ROK
Jordan King, Lubbock, TX, USA
Ahmet Can Kırlıoğlu, Istanbul, Izmir, Turkey
Saumaya Kirti, Patna, BR, India
Karan Kishor Singh, Monterrey, Nuevo
León, México
Lisanne Knijff, Uppsala, Uppland, Sweden
Suhyuk Ko, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Erika Komiya, Koganei-shi, Tokyo, Japan
Winnie Kong, Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Andrew Krasley, Ashburn, VA, USA
Annalena Krude, Münster, NRW, Germany
Ankur Kumar, Roorkee, UT, India
Yamini Kumaran, Albany, NY, USA
Hari Nivin Kumaresan, Detroit, MI, USA
Laxman Kundarapu, Chennai, TN, India
Nafisat Lawal, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Robert Lazarin, Santa Fe, NM, USA
DongKyu Lee, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Heekwon Lee, Austin, TX, USA
Seungjae Lee, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Seungyeop Lee, College Park, MD, USA
Taehyub Lee, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Lorenz Lehmann, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Cuilei Li, Dracut, MA, USA
Hansheng Li, Syracuse, NY, USA
Hao-Yang Li, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Hung-Wei Li, Lausanne, CH, Switzerland
Jun Li, Lafayette, LA, USA
Mei Li, Limerick, Munster, Ireland, UK
Qiujun Li, Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland
Xin Li, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Xinhao Li, Long Island City, NY, USA
Zhiguang Li, Lombard, IL, USA
Julia Linke, Villigen, AG, Switzerland
Rodrigo Lira Garcia Barros, Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Xinyu Liu, St. Andrews, Scotland, UK
Zhao Liu, Zha Bei Qu, Shanghai, China
Haiqiang Luo, Tianjin, Tianjin, China
Spencer Lytle, Stouffville, ON, Canada
Mengzhen Lyu, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Yuanman Ma, Lubbock, TX, USA
Madhu Majji, Cambridge, MA, USA
Nathan Makowski, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Sreya Malayam Parambath, Oxford, MS, USA
Annabelle Maletzko, Karlsruhe, BW, Germany
Daniela Marin, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Sonal Maroo, Albany, CA, USA
Sariah Marth, Wynantskill, NY, USA
Kutemwa Masafwa, New Orleans, LA, USA
Yusuke Matsumiya, Koto City, Tokyo, Japan
Maximilian Mayr, Vienna, Bundesland, Austria
Seth McPherson, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Julia Meierl, Freiburg, BW, Germany
Marie-Chloe Michaud Paradis, Montréal, QC, Canada
Patrick Micheler, Waltenhofen, Bavaria, Germany
Pragyandipta Mishra, Chennai, TN, India
Raghvendra Mishra, Varanasi, UP, India
Nicole Mitchell, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
Abdul Moeez, Seattle, WA, USA
Ashly Mohan, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
Nora Izzati Binti Mohd Razip, Sanda, Hyogo, Japan
Katherine Montoya Cano, Pedro Escobedo, Querétaro de Arteaga, México
Hannah Morin, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Shikhar Motupally, Avon, CT, USA
Spencer Mouron, Lawrence, KS, USA
Fatemeh Sadat Mousavizadeh Mojarad, Calgary, AB, Canada
LNour Moustafa, Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Ayesha Mubshrah, Bristol, England, UK
Miguel Muñoz Sánchez, Cleveland, OH, USA
Wai Myint, Bangkok, Pathum Thani, Thailand
Kook Myungchul, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Aceer Nadeem, Kingston, RI, USA
Muhammad Nihal Naseer, Toulouse, Occitanie Region, France
Aqsa Nazir, Miami, FL, USA
Hemanth Neelgund Ramesh, Seattle, WA, USA
Chin Siang Ng, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Desmond Ng, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Emily Nishiwaki, Seattle, WA, USA
Yuxiang Niu, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Emma Nordstrom, Fayetteville, AR, USA
Jaime O’Mari, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA
Janet Ocampo, San Juan del Río, Querétaro, México
Grace O’Dwyer, Boston, MA, USA
Jeongyeon Oh, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Salami Olawale, Patumwan, Bangkok, Thailand
Gbenga Olorunmodimu, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Mostafa Omran, New El Marg, Cairo, Egypt
Bryan Ong, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Christopher Oyuela, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Olivia Paden, Boston, MA, USA
Swapna Pahra, Chandigarh, CH, India
Akshay Pakhare, East Lansing, MI, USA
Arnab Pal, Hsinchu, Hsinchu County, Taiwan
Subrata Pal, Stillwater, OK, USA
Sagar Pande, Long Beach, CA, USA
Yiheng Pang, Chelsea, MA, USA
Bhargavi Pant, Klosterneuburg, Niederoesterreich, Austria
Byunghwa Park, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Juyoung Park, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Khushi Patel, Cookeville, TN, USA
Prehit Patel, Huntsville, AL, USA
Roma Patel, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
Saurabh Pathak, Cleveland, OH, USA
Shakul Pathak, Cambridge, MA, USA
Shubham Patial, Chandigarh, CH, India
Susmita Patil, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Jack Pereira, Tacoma, WA, USA
Jirapha Pimoei, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Srikanth Ponnada, Golden, CO, USA
Bernhard Pruckner, Vienna, Bundesland, Austria
Jiankun Pu, Cambridge, MA, USA
Khoiria Nur Atika Putri, Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Jianzhou Qu, New York, NY, USA
Ziba Rahmati, Columbia, SC, USA
Gopi Rajakannu Ravi, Salem, TN, India
Ziba Rajan, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Kenil Rajpura, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
Alexander Rampf, Ulm, BW, Germany
Sunithi Ratana, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Mariana Reyes, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
Trenton Richardson, Chicago, IL, USA
Cameron Romero, Youngsville, LA, USA
Thomas Rose-Gray, Marine City, MI, USA
Dan Rourke, Lowell, MA, USA
Matteo Rugna, Padova, Italia, Italy
Adrija Rukmini, Phoenix, AZ, USA
SSadia Saberin, Lubbock, TX, USA
Dhrubajyoti Sadhukhan, Milano, Lombardy, Italy
Mohammad Sadiq, Aligarh, UP, India
Ramesh Chandra Sahoo, Bengaluru, KA, India
Mina Salehabadi, Halifax, NS, Canada
Shavita Salora, Chandigarh, CH, India
Laur Salvan, Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Anwesa Samanta, Chicago, IL, USA
Sara Sand, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abdulkadeem Sanni, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Brahmanu Wisnu Saputro, Tainan, Tainan, Taiwan
Muhammad Bilal Faheem Sattar, Syracuse, NY, USA
Madan Saud, Syracuse, NY, USA
Marc Schiffler, Karlsruhe, BW, Germany
Noah Schmidt-Meinzer, Freiburg, BW, Germany
Christopher Schreiber, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
Andrew Sellathurai, Kingston, ON, Canada
Beum Geun Seo, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Swaraj Servottam, Bangalore, KA, India
Naznin Shaikh, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Preetam Sharma, Knoxville, TN, USA
Santosh Sharma, Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Yaxin Shen, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Hyeon-ji Shin, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Jiyoon Shin, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Jiyun Shin, Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do, ROK
Yuto Shirase, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
Pooja Singh, Chandigarh, CH, India
Irene Sinisgalli, Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Junseok Song, Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, ROK
Gabriele Sordi, Seregno, Lombardia, Italy
Emily Sperry, West Richland, WA, USA
Toni Srour, Vandoeuvre, Lorraine, France
QMax Stafford, Foster City, CA, USA
Caroline St-Antoine, Longueuil, QC, Canada
Smrithy Subash, Thiruvalla, KL, India
Sruthy Subash, Thiruvalla, KL, India
Dora Sulatt, Dorchester, MA, USA
Nigar Sultana, Raleigh, NC, USA
Neelam Sunariwal, Chicago, IL, USA
Nuttapon Suppanucroa, Trat, Bangkok, Thailand
Bopitiye Dilan Krishna Kumara Thilakarathna, Kingsford, NSW, Australia
Rebekah Thimes, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Ollie Thomas, South Brent, England, UK
Sanatou Toe, Toulouse, Occitanie, France
Francesco Toja, Rho, Lombardia, Italy
Güldeniz Tonbul, Paderborn, NRW, Germany
Sirui Tong, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Olivia Traenkle, Eugene, OR, USA
Lyra Troy, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Wahid Tulin, Maijdee, Chittagong, Bangladesh
Takumi Urakami, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Pooja Vadhva, London, England, UK
Yolimar Vazquez, Aguas Buenas, PR, USA
Kadhir Vel, Chennai, TN, India
Durgambika Venkatachalam, Chennai, TN, India
Bharat Verma, Roorkee, UT, India
Neelam Vishwakarma, Chandigarh, CH, India
Damini Vrushabendrakumar, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Minal Wable, Stillwater, OK, USA
Chenying Wang, Troy, NY, USA
Ying Wang, Boston, MA, USA
Yu-Rong Wang, Hsinchu, Hsinchu County, Taiwan
Ziqing Wang, Austin, TX, USA
William Wei, Ogdensburg, NY, USA
Tony Weiss, Garching bei München, Bavaria, Germany
Toshan Wickramanayake, London, England, UK
Thanutsaporn Wongthaipadung, Rayong, Rayong, Thailand
Fritz Wortelkamp, Freiburg im Breisgau, BW, Germany
Bing Wu, Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic
Siqi Wu, Cambridge, MA, USA X
Chuanlian Xiao, Stuttgart, BW, Germany
Yukun Xiao, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
TZhenyue Xiao, York, England, UK
Marina Tabuyo Martínez, Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Saeede Tafazoli, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Sayaka Takahashi, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
Phonnapha Tangthuam, Ratchaburi, Ratchaburi, Thailand
Sara Teama, New Cairo, Giza, Egypt
Muluken Tefera, Messina, Sicilia, Italy
Hang Xu, Oxford, England, UK
Xilai Xue, Ulm, BW, Germany
Nishant Yadav, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Shuo Yan, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Zhengyang Yang, Lowell, MA, USA
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Sooyoung Yoon, Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany
Warunyoo Yoopensuk, Nonthaburi, Bangkok, Thailand
Hao You, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Svena Yu, Halifax, NS, Canada
Devanshi Zala, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
Nicolò Zatta, Masera di Padova, Veneto, Italy
Hong Zhang, St Andrews, Scotland, UK
Jianyu Zhang, Padova, Veneto, Italy
Kaidi Zhang, Berkeley, CA, USA
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Dongni Zhao, Lancaster, England, UK
Yu Zhao, Sunderland, MA, USA
Shangwei Zhou, London, England, UK
Xingcheng Zhou, Cambridge, MA, USA
Jiahui Zhu, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Lijun Zhu, Toronto, ON, Canada
Pengxi Zhu, Ammon, ID, USA
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In the fall of 2022, the ECS Boston Student Chapter began developing an educational module to demonstrate the generation and storage of electrical energy (see overall system illustration).
The system consists of a hand-cranked wheel coupled to a wire-wound magnet assembly for generating AC electricity. The breadboard rectifies the AC electricity and distributes it over series and parallel resistor loads. A capacitor is used to demonstrate energy storage and smoothing of the rectified current. Oscilloscope data is captured on students’ cell phones for analysis. The system demonstrates the concepts of gear ratios, electromagnetics, energy production, and distribution in the context of grid energy production and storage.
The chapter debuted the learning model on May 3, 2023, in a teaching session with Northeastern University undergraduates and local Roxbury Youth Club high school students. Undergraduate Sage Matzker delivered an introductory lecture on renewable energy–generated electricity. Students assembled the system from a kit and acquired data to answer guided questions on an accompanying worksheet. This facilitated an intuitive learning process, showcasing the benefits of experiential education. Additional events utilizing the modules are planned for the near future, including deployment in classroom demonstrations at Caribbean University in Puerto Rico.
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Graduate student and Chapter Vice President S. Jackson Smith presented poster L01-2419 on the module operation and performance in the Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry, Electrocatalysis, and Photoelectrochemistry Poster Session at the 243rd ECS Meeting in Boston, MA. Other students who participated in this project included Chapter President Daniel J. Donnelly III, Matthew Fei, and Sophia Roger
The chapter thanks the Society for this opportunity to showcase its efforts on this educational system; thanks lead faculty advisor Prof. Eugene S. Smotkin for his support in the system’s design and assembly; and thanks the Technology and Education Center for Renewable Energy (TECRE) for funding the project. Interface readers who would like to keep up with Boston chapter news or who are interested in joining, please visit the chapter’s website
The ECS Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) student chapter is happy to announce its reactivation as of June 8, 2023! The executive committee officers are President Oğuz Kağan Coşkun, Vice President Desiree Mae Prado, Secretary Saurabh Pathak, Treasurer Zeynep Bagbudar, and Social Media Liaison Yuanman Ma. The chapter recognizes faculty advisor Prof. Robert Savinell’s valuable
support and suggestions for future activities. The chapter, which aims to provide a platform for students to engage in electrochemical and solid state science–related discussions and activities, is confident that they will be a valuable addition to the ECS community in promoting the field of electrochemistry among CWRU students. To achieve their goals, the chapter has started planning technical seminars and workshops.
From January 18 to 20, 2023, the ECS Indian Institute of Technology Madras Student Chapter hosted a conference where they joined hands with the International Conference on Energy Conversion and Storage (IECS-2023) for the “Fastest Finger First Quiz.” Chapter volunteers arranged a series of quizzes—one per day—via an online platform, encompassing various aspects of electrochemistry. The quizzes were based on the topics discussed each day at the conference. Almost 400 attendees participated in the quizzes and five of the top scorers were recognized with a cash award from IECS.
In association with the SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST), the chapter conducted a two-day conference International Workshop on Electrochemical Techniques for Next-Generation Batteries (IWETN—GB2023). Dr. T. Maiyalagan from SRMIST convened the workshop which received an overwhelming response, with more than 130 students registering for the event. The workshop’s first day took place at SRMIST, where renowned electrochemists from various parts of the world enlightened the participants with
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recent advancements and current trends in battery technology. Speakers included Dr. Jagjit Nanda (Stanford University), Prof. Soorathep Kheawhom (Chulalongkorn University) and Dr. Mogalahalli Venkateshreddy Venkatashamy Reddy (Nouveau Monde Graphite). The second day’s proceedings at IIT Madras campus were divided into two distinct sections. The morning focused on expert lectures by Prof. Srinivasan Ramanathan and Prof. Kothandaraman Ramanujam, providing attendees with valuable insights and knowledge on impedance and on characterization techniques for batteries. In the afternoon, participants applied the morning’s lessons in an engaging hands-on experience that allowed participants to apply what they had learned. The workshop’s handson activity was supported by equipment from Metrohm India Pvt. Ltd. The workshop ended with an engaging quiz session followed by the distribution of certificates.
On April 19, 2023, the chapter organized a lecture presented by the eminent Prof. Werner Paulus from the Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, “Electrochemical Oxygen Intercalation Reactions
Followed up by In Situ Neutron and Synchrotron Diffraction at Room Temperature.” Faculty and students from various IITM departments attended the lecture, which revolved around structural aspects of Li-ion–rich conducting substances and the relevance of neutron and synchrotron diffraction techniques in determining the exact role and location of the conducting ion in the structure.
On June 27, 2023, the chapter organized a one-day workshop, “Biosensors and Electroanalytical Techniques,” led by Prof. Sadagopan Krishnan from Oklahoma State University. The workshop started with an homage to the late Prof. John B.
Goodenough. More than 60 participants from various institutes across Tamil Nadu Province attended the lecture. The diverse participation added to the workshop’s collaborative and engaging atmosphere. In the morning session, Prof. Krishnan delivered two lectures focusing on diverse electroanalytical techniques and their applications in biosensors, meat chemistry, and more.
The afternoon was dedicated to hands-on sessions and interactive activities with expert professors Raghuram Chetty, Raman Vedarajan, and Kothandaraman Ramanujam. To facilitate effective participation, the students were divided into groups. The hands-on session comprised three experiments: electrochemical detection of dopamine with endohedral solvent-filled carbon nanotubes; understanding conductance and conductivity through EIS; and semi-infinite diffusion vs. finite diffusion using rotating disk electrode with EIS. A Fastest Finger First Quiz based on the workshop content was conducted. Two students were awarded with cash prizes through the support of Labkarts India Pvt. Ltd. Interested readers can download the teaching content of the workshop from the meeting website
In addition, a lecture series in association with the Electrochemical Society of India is ongoing. Thus far, eight talks have been delivered between August 20, 2022, and May 27, 2023 by distinguished speakers who include Mr. Sanyam Pursi, Dr. Venkataraman Thangadurai, Dr. Veerabhadrarao Kaliginedi, Dr. Tharamani
C. N., Dr. S. Senthil Kumar, Dr. Siva Rama Krishna Chaitanya, Sharma Yamijala, Dr. J. N. Balaraju, and Dr. S. Ravichandran
Upcoming activities include an industry tour in October; Energy Summit, an international conference tentatively set for December 2023; and a workshop by Prof. Venkataraman Thangadurai (University of Calgary), on February 23, 2024, at IIT Madras.
The newly formed ECS University of Michigan Student Chapter’s officers are Chair Daniel W. Liao; Vice Chair Catherine G. Haslam; Secretary Joshua P. Hazelnis; and Treasurer Jinhong Min. Associate Professor Neil P. Dasgupta and Professor Stephen Maldonado advise the chapter. The team is excited to help create a multidisciplinary community across graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, and industry professionals.
The chapter attended an ECS Detroit Section event with speaker Mr. Tu Le, Founder and Managing Direction of Sino Auto Insights, at Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. on July 12. The speaker highlighted the current global electric vehicle (EV) market and provided insightful future directions for EV commercialization. Shannon Reed, ECS Director of Community Engagement, was also in attendance to provide advice on creating and
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managing a successful ECS Student Chapter. In addition, University of Michigan PhD candidates Joshua P. Hazelnis, Jinhong Min, and Christopher P. Woodley had the opportunity to present their research to the broad audience in attendance. The student chapter looks forward to many future collaborative events with the ECS Detroit Section.
An in-person seminar, “‘All-Solid’ to ‘Almost-Solid’ – How Solid Will Solid-State Batteries Get?” took place in July with Professor Dr. Jürgen Janek. The student chapter also hosted a tour of The University of Michigan Battery Lab which contains over 9,000
square feet of research space, including a pilot line for pouch and cylindrical cells and an R&D pouch cell line, coin cell fabrication, electrochemical cycling, abuse testing, and a full suite of material characterization tools. Tune in to future Interface editions for future events!
The ECS University of Michigan Student Chapter’s poster promotes their July events with Guest Speaker Prof. Dr. Jurgen Janek presenting “‘AllSolid’ to ‘Almost-Solid’ – How Solid Will Solid-State Batteries Get?” followed by a tour of the University of Michigan Battery Lab.
Photo courtesy of Daniel Liao
In the first half of 2023, the ECS Münster Student Chapter had the great pleasure of hosting several in-person seminars and webinars with renowned scientists in cooperation with the International Graduate School BACCARA. The event series kicked off with a career event held at the MEET Battery Research Center in Münster. With a particular focus on successful career pathways of women in battery research, the event encouraged numerous young scientists to
explore the speakers’ research, career opportunities, and personal paths. With Drs. Karin Kleiner (MEET Battery Research Center), Nella Vargas-Barbosa (Helmholtz-Institute Münster (HI MS)), Anja Bielefeld (Justus Liebig University Giessen), and Kerstin Neuhaus, four research group leaders gave insights into their academic career pathways and how to establish and lead a group of scientists. They were followed by Prof. André Gröschel (University of Münster),
who presented his pathway to becoming a professor, including the tasks and challenges a professorship entails. Drs. Kristina Borzutzki (Leader, Chemical Process at Fraunhofer Research Institution for Battery Cell Production FFB) and Tina Gröschel (Director of Polymer Testing at Evonik) concluded the talks with a focus on industrial career opportunities in the chemical and battery industry
At the next in-person event, the student chapter hosted a talk by Prof. Michael Metzger from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. During his talk at the MEET Battery Research Center, the holder of the Herzberg-Dahn chair shed light on the curious selfdischarge of large-format lithium-ion batteries. He showed how the culprit of the mechanism, the adhesive PET tape, can depolymerize in the chemical environment of a lithium-ion battery, forming dimethyl terephthalate (DMT), which acts as an unwanted redox shuttle. This monomer induces the self-discharge of the battery cell, eventually leading to a complete discharge over the course of several weeks. During his stay in Münster, Prof. Metzger also took the opportunity to explore the cutting-edge laboratories of the MEET Battery Research Center and met with students and faculty members to discuss current research projects.
In the webinar series, the student chapter members and invited guests had the chance to hear Prof. Matthew McDowell from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Prof. Alex Rettie from University College London. During their online talks, the professors gave insights into solid state batteries’ material development and interface evolution.
Planned future events for this year include the annual alumni event with former PhD students and colleagues, as well as another in-person seminar with Dr. Rinaldo Raccichini, a senior editor of Nature Communications. Dr. Raccichini will discuss the key editorial differences among Nature, Nature Research Journals, and Nature Communications, and show the audience how to write a paper that deserves to be published in one of these journals.
The ECS Norwegian University of Science and Technology Student Chapter’s May 10, 2023 annual seminar—the first since the pandemic—was held at Lager 11 in Trondheim and attracted more than 40 attendees with differing affiliations, including students, engineers, researchers, and professors. The seminar’s goal was to facilitate the interaction between the electrochemistry and solid state science communities in Trondheim.
The event began with opening remarks by chapter President Megan Heath, who welcomed participants and recognized the chapter for recruiting new members. The seminar consisted of oral presentations by students and young researchers about their work, followed by discussion sessions chaired by two professors and a post-doctoral researcher from the Department of Materials Science
and Engineering: Prof. Andreas Erbe, Associate Professor Espen Sandnes, and Dr. Siri Marie Skaftun. The session covered a wide variety of topics, including water electrolysis, photocatalysis, batteries, fuel cells, biosensors, corrosion, electrowinning, electroplating, and mathematical modeling. The chapter’s faculty advisor, Prof. Ann Mari Svensson, made the closing remarks. At the dinner following the seminar, reactions from participants were positive. They enjoyed the opportunity to get to know people outside their work and research groups. As a result of this successful seminar, and to further strengthen community bonds, the student chapter is now planning a fall event.
The student chapter acknowledges and thanks all the event participants and The Electrochemical Society for their support.
The ECS Purdue Student Chapter’s spring 2023 semester commenced on an exhilarating note with the highly anticipated MoChA (Modeling, Characterization and Analytics) Poster Symposium on February 9. The event kicked off with a warm welcome note from the Lead Faculty Advisor, Prof. Partha Mukherjee, and Distinguished Industry Advisor, Dr. Judy Jeevarajan, alongside chapter officers President Debanjali Chatterjee and Vice President Aditya Singla Chapter Faculty Co-advisor Prof. Rebecca Ciez set the tone for the symposium with an enlightening plenary talk emphasizing the pivotal role of electrochemistry in shaping the future decarbonization landscape. A series of technical talks followed by Susmita Sarkar, Bairav S. Vishnugopi, and Nikhil Sharma, PhD candidates in the School of Mechanical Engineering. These talks provided valuable insights into cutting-edge research and developments in the field. The highlight of the event was the poster competition, showcasing interdisciplinary research in the field of electrochemical energy storage and conversion. The symposium saw over 15 posters by graduate and undergraduate students and postdoctoral scholars from Purdue University and Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Drawing an impressive audience of more than 80 attendees, including students and faculty, the event was a huge success and was highlighted in a news item by Purdue Mechanical Engineering
Following spring break, the chapter enthusiastically participated in the Birck Nanoscience Expo organized by the Birck Nanotechnology Center (BNC) at Purdue on April 14, 2023. This remarkable event provided a platform for more than 50 high school students to delve into hands-on scientific experiments revolving around key themes of quantum computing, semiconductors, the environment, and healthcare. Chapter officers Sourim Banerjee, Anu Alujjage, and
Aditya Singla showcased experiments that included demonstrating a lemon battery, observing a coin cell under a microscope, and exploring the thermal runaway of batteries. The chapter expresses its heartfelt gratitude to Dr. Neil Dilley, the event organizer, for graciously extending this invaluable opportunity, enabling us to embark on our first scientific outreach endeavor aimed at inspiring and captivating high school students.
The ECS Purdue Student Chapter members organized the MoChA (Modeling, Characterization and Analytics) Poster Symposium (Not In Order): Susmita Sarkar, Chapter Executive Advisor; Prof. Keijie Zhao, School of Mechanical Engineering; Prof. Jason Ostanek, School of Engineering Technology; Prof. Rebecca Ciez, School of Mechanical Engineering and Chapter Faculty Co-advisor; Prof. Partha Mukherjee, Chapter Lead Faculty Advisor; Bairav S. Vishnugopi, Purdue PhD candidate, with Purdue ECS Student Chapter officers Debanjali Chatterjee, President; Aditya Singla, Vice President & Treasurer; Sourim Banerjee, Vice President & Secretary; and Anu Alujjage, Vice President & Event Coordinator.
Photo courtesy of Debanjali Chatterjee
The chapter eagerly seeks driven graduate and undergraduate students who are passionate about scientific outreach in the realm of energy storage and conversion. With the upcoming academic year, the chapter is thrilled to unveil an array of exciting events and impactful outreach programs designed to captivate and inspire, offering remarkable opportunities for our members to make a difference. Notably, our participation in Purdue NanoDays during fall 2023 marks a significant highlight of the year.
The Chapter extends its sincere appreciation to The Electrochemical Society for offering a valuable platform to showcase their endeavors to a wide-ranging audience. The chapter is immensely grateful to Lead Faculty Advisor Prof. Partha P. Mukherjee for his invaluable time and unwavering guidance, which has been instrumental in our success. Lastly, we would like to express our gratitude to Interface readers and invite you to stay up-to-date on our latest activities by following the chapter’s Twitter handle, @EcsPurdue
The ECS Technical University Ilmenau (TU Ilmenau) Student Chapter’s March 30–March 31 hybrid event was held online and at SurTec Deutschland. SurTec is a global supplier of chemicals for applications in surface technology, such as chrome (III)-based passivation, aluminum anodization, corrosion protection, decorative and functional coatings, as well as pre-treatments and cleaning solutions for components in the automobile and electronic industries.
The event began with an introduction to the company, followed by a tour through SurTec’s facilities and R&D laboratories. Speaker Dr. René Böttcher shared his experience of transitioning from academia to industry upon completion of his PhD. There was also a discussion on the latest ECS news and future activities for the year. The ECS Electrodeposition Division’s Early Career Forum (ECF)— an international group of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows involved in electrodeposition research—was introduced. The first day concluded with a chapter business meeting led by Nurul Amanina Binti Omar who announced the newly elected 2023 executive board: Chair Nurul Amanina Binti Omar, Vice Chair Ivan Genov, Secretary Gisella Lucero, and Treasurer Lukas Esper
The second day began with a presentation by Dr. Lisa Büker, a former TU Ilmenau PhD student. She discussed the challenges and opportunities she faced during her time as a PhD student in electrochemistry and electroplating while simultaneously working in industry. Lukas Esper and Birgit Möbius updated attendees on the status of their doctoral theses on electrochemical processes for posttreatment of additive manufactured stents and the characterization of chromium layers from trivalent electrolytes, respectively. Dr. Maria del Carmen Mejia discussed her PhD topic, the physical properties and photoelectrochemical behavior of c-Si(p)/a-SiC:H(p) photocathodes for solar water splitting. The meeting concluded with a lecture from Dr. Mario Kurniawan on scanning probe microscopy. The in-person participants had the opportunity to attend a practical course on electroplating with bright nickel and chromium at the SurTec pilot plant.
The next in-person chapter meeting is scheduled for Fall 2023 in Ilmenau.
‘Twas a chilly spring semester in Austin, Texas, as the ECS University of Texas at Austin Student Chapter, fueled with a smorgasbord of barbecued brisket, worked tirelessly to emerge from the shadows of the COVID-19 pandemic. They are glad to be back together in person again with their friends in the ECS community!
The chapter, which was founded in 2006 by Dr. Arumugam Manthiram, has long provided an interdisciplinary forum for students from different branches of the physical sciences and engineering to meet and discuss emerging ideas about electrochemistry and solid state sciences. The chapter received the 2014 Outstanding ECS Student Chapter Award and remained active throughout the pandemic by hosting an ECS Webinar Series. Today, a new board of Texas Longhorn graduate students stand on the shoulders of legendary faculty who have enriched their lives, including Drs. Allen Bard, Larry R. Faulkner, John Goodenough, Arumugam Manthiram, Venkat R. Subramanian and many others!
This year the chapter spearheaded an academic lecture series called “Chalk Talks” for students to share their research with their peers in a comfortable and professional environment. View the Chalk Talk videos on our YouTube channel and student chapter website.
In 2023, the chapter doubled in size from only a handful to more than a dozen active members. The chapter is committed to enhancing members’ scientific knowledge and interpersonal skills through seminars, social activities, community service, and networking in academia and industry. They are committed to collaborating with ECS student chapters in Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico.
The chapter is looking forward to seeing y’all at upcoming ECS meetings! Hook ’em Horns! Chapter officers are Co-chairs Anthony C. Concepción and Jay T. Bender, Vice Chair Tushar Telmasre, Treasurer Jeremy Brinker, and Secretary Raul A. Márquez
by Frances Chaves
On June 1, 2023, the ECS Board of Directors approved the chartering of eight new student chapters. The Society continues to welcome new student chapters into our supportive, global community, bringing the total number of chapters to 131 around the world!
Join us in welcoming these institutions into our ECS Student Chapter program:
• Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
• Columbia University, US
• Korea, Hanyang, and Sogang Universities (joining as one chapter), Republic of Korea
• New York University, US
• Princeton University, US
• Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
• University of Michigan, US
• University of Mississippi, US
ECS Student Chapter membership provides many benefits, including:
• Engaging with students and peers;
• Organizing technical meeting programs and scholarly activities;
• Collaborating with members to present posters at ECS biannual meetings;
• Networking with 8,000+ international ECS members;
• Accessing career resources;
• Adding impressive extracurricular activities to resumes;
• Funding to support chapter activities;
• Partnering with local ECS sections on activities and technical programs;
• Receiving recognition on the ECS website and in
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The 245th ECS Meeting takes place in San Francisco, CA, May 26-30, 2024, at the Marriott Marquis San Francisco. This international conference brings together scientists, engineers, and researchers from academia, industry, and government laboratories to share results and discuss issues on related topics through a variety of formats such as oral presentations, poster sessions, panel discussions, tutorial sessions, short courses, professional development workshops, and exhibits. The unique blend of electrochemical and solid state science and technology at an ECS meeting provides an opportunity and forum to learn and exchange information on the latest scientific and technical developments in a variety of interdisciplinary areas.
To give an oral or poster presentation at the 245th ECS Meeting, submit an original abstract for consideration via the ECS website no later than December 1, 2023. Faxed, emailed, and/or late abstracts are not accepted. Meeting abstracts should explicitly state the work’s objectives, new results, and conclusions or significance. After the submission deadline, symposium organizers evaluate all abstracts for content and relevance to the symposium topic, and schedule accepted submissions as either oral or poster presentations.
Letters of Acceptance/Invitation are sent via email in February 2024, notifying corresponding authors of accepted abstracts, and the date, time, and location of their presentations.
How and when a poster or oral presentation is scheduled is at the symposium organizers’ discretion, regardless of presenters’ requests.
Oral presentations must be in English. LCD projectors and laptops are provided for all oral presentations. Presenting authors MUST bring their presentations on USB flash drives to use with dedicated laptops located in each technical session room. Speakers requiring additional equipment must make written request to meetings@electrochem.org at least one month prior to the meeting so appropriate arrangements can be made, subject to availability, and at the author’s expense.
Poster presentations must be displayed in English on a board approximately 3 feet 10 inches high by 3 feet 10 inches wide (1.17 meters high by 1.17 meters wide), labeled with the abstract number and day of presentation in the final program.
Participants in the Z01 General Student Poster Competition are required to upload a digital poster file in advance of the meeting and be present during the in-person judging session on Tuesday evening. The deadline to upload a digital file for the competition is sent to corresponding authors. The prize categories are 1st Place ($1,500 cash award), 2nd Place ($1,000 cash award), and 3rd Place ($500 cash award).
Digital presenters are required to submit a video of their presentation and/ or a copy of the slide deck or poster that will only be made available for ondemand viewing within the online program through June 25, 2024. Digital presentations are NOT streamed into or out of the onsite session rooms.
ECS Meeting Abstracts—All meeting abstracts are published in the ECS Digital Library, copyrighted by ECS, and become ECS’s property upon presentation.
ECS Journals—Authors presenting papers at ECS meetings are encouraged to submit to the Society’s technical journals: Journal of The Electrochemical Society, ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, ECS Advances, or ECS Sensors Plus. Although there is no hard deadline for submitting these papers, six months from the symposium date is considered sufficient time to revise a paper to meet stricter journal criteria. Author instructions are on the ECS website.
ECS Transactions—Select symposia publish their proceedings in ECS Transactions (ECST). Please check the individual symposia Calls for Papers in this document. Authors presenting in these symposia are welcome to submit to ECST full-text manuscripts based on their presentations. Issues of ECST are available for sale on a pre-order basis, as well as through the ECS Digital Library and ECS Online Store. Review each individual symposium’s listing in this Call for Papers to determine if your symposium is publishing an ECST issue. Visit the ECST website for additional information, including overall guidelines, author and editor instructions, a downloadable manuscript template, and more.
ECS Short Courses provide students and seasoned professionals with indepth education on a wide range of topics. Novices and experts advance their technical expertise and knowledge through personalized instruction by academic and industry experts. Short Courses require advance registration and may be canceled if course enrollment is under 10 registrants. Learn more at https://www.electrochem.org/short-courses
The 245th ECS Meeting is the right place to exhibit. ECS provides a powerful platform for meeting major new customers while enhancing relationships with current customers from around the world. Traffic in the exhibit hall is generated by coffee and networking breaks along with evening poster sessions.
Your presence at ECS’s leading industry event positions your brand as serious and reliable—and it’s a great way to build buzz for new products! Exhibit opportunities can be combined with sponsorship to suit your marketing needs. Contact sponsorship@electrochem.org for further details.
All participants including authors and invited speakers are required to pay the appropriate registration fees. Meeting registration information is posted on the ECS website as it becomes available. The deadline for discounted early registration is May 6, 2024.
The 245th ECS Meeting takes place at the Marriott Marquis San Francisco. Please refer to the meeting website for the most up-to-date information on hotel availability and blocks of rooms where meeting participants receive special rates. The hotel block is open until May 6, 2024, or it sells out.
Letters of Invitation are sent in February 2024 via email to the presenting authors of all accepted abstracts, notifying them of the date, time, and location of their presentations. Anyone requiring an official Letter of Invitation should email abstracts@electrochem.org. These letters do not imply any financial responsibility on the part of ECS.
ECS divisions and sections may offer travel grants to assist students, postdoctoral researchers, and young professionals to attend ECS biannual meetings. Applications are available beginning December 1, 2023, at www. electrochem.org/travel-grants. The submission deadline is February 26, 2024.
Additional financial assistance is limited and generally governed by symposium organizers. To inquire if additional funding is available, contact the organizers of the symposium in which you are presenting.
ECS biannual meetings provide a wonderful opportunity to solidify and strengthen your brand through sponsorship. Give your brand more visibility and reinforce your position as an industry leader by sponsoring ECS meeting events. Companies can choose from a wide array of activities, from symposia to special events, which deliver worldwide recognition as a supporter of electrochemical and solid state research—and enhance ECS meetings.
ECS also offers specific symposium sponsorship. By sponsoring a symposium, your company helps offset travel expenses, registration fees, complimentary proceedings, and/or hosts receptions for invited speakers, researchers, and students. Please contact sponsorship@electrochem.org for further details.
If you have questions or require additional information, contact ECS.
A Batteries and Energy Storage
A01 New Approaches and Advances in Electrochemical Energy Systems: In Memory of Sri Narayan
A02 Lithium Ion Batteries
A03 Large Scale Energy Storage
A04 Battery Material Scale-up and Manufacturing
A05 Battery Student Slam 8
B Carbon Nanostructures and Devices
B01 Carbon Nanostructures for Energy Conversion and Storage
B02 Carbon Nanostructures in Medicine and Biology
B03 Carbon Nanotubes – From Fundamentals to Devices
B04 NANO in India
B05 Fullerenes – Endohedral Fullerenes and Molecular Carbon, in Memory of Bob Curl
B06 2D Layered Materials from Fundamental Science to Applications
B07 Light Energy Conversion with Metal Halide Perovskites, Inorganic/ Organic Hybrid Materials, and Dynamic Exciton
B08 Porphyrins, Phthalocyanines, and Supramolecular Assemblies
B09 Nano for Industry B10
K Organic and Bioelectrochemistry
K01 Advances in Organic and Biological Electrochemistry: In Memory of Diane Smith
K02 Bioelectrochemistry – From Ions to Proteins to Living Organisms
K03 Organic and Biological 3D Electrode Architectures
L Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry, Electrocatalysis, and Photoelectrochemistry
L01 Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry, Electrocatalysis, and Photoelectrochemistry General Session
L02 Computational Electrochemistry 9
L03 Electrochemical Studies by Synchrotron Techniques 3
L04 Bioelectroanalysis and Bioelectrocatalysis 3
L05 Electrochemistry at the Nanoscale 2
L06 Analytical Electrochemistry for Electrosynthesis
L07 Electrochemistry and Switchable Qubits
M Sensors
M01 Recent Advances in Sensors Systems 5
M02 Printed and Wearable Sensors and Systems
M03 Sensors for Energy Production, Conversion, and Storage
Z General
Z01 General Student Poster Session
Z02 Education in Electrochemistry 4
Z03 Electrochemical Recovery, Recycling, and Sustainability of Critical and Value-Added Materials 2
Z04 Electrochemistry for Chemical Manufacturing 2
Z05 Materials, Devices, and Systems for Neuromorphic Computing and Artificial Intelligence Hardware
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