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Electrochemical Society

U.S. professional association supporting scientific inquiry in electrochemistry solid-state science and related technology

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ3721278 ↗
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The Electrochemical Society is a learned society (professional association) based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of electrochemistry solid-state science and related technology. The Society membership comprises more than 8,000 scientists and engineers in over 85 countries at all degree levels and in all fields of electrochemistry, solid-state science and related technologies. Additional support is provided by institutional members including corporations and laboratories.

ECS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

The Society publishes numerous journals including the Journal of The Electrochemical Society (the oldest peer-reviewed journal in its field), the Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, ECS Meeting Abstracts, ECS Transactions, and ECS Interface. The Society sponsors the ECS Monographs Series. These distinguished monographs, published by John Wiley & Sons, are the leading textbooks in their fields.

The ECS Digital Library on IOPscience encompasses over 160,000 journal and magazine articles and meeting abstracts. The Society supports open access through the Society’s initiative to make research freely available to world readers and free for authors to publish.

The Society has thirteen topic interest area divisions as well as regional sections in Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, North America, and Southern Asia; over 100 ECS student chapters are located in major universities in all of these regions as well as Eastern Europe and South Africa.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Electrochemical Society” is u.S. professional association supporting scientific inquiry in electrochemistry solid-state science and related technology. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Electrochemical, Society and professional, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current 220-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1902-01-01. For this dossier, Electrochemical, Society and professional is the immediate research focus.
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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3721278. VIAF identifies the subject as 145335166. The Library of Congress control number is n79139285. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Electrochemical Society” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.