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December 2025 SPECS All Hands Meeting

Our annual All-Hands meeting will be held in Tucson, AZ at the Westward Look Wyndham Grand Resort located at 245 E. Ina Rd. Tucson, AZ 85704. The regular sessions are Tuesday, December 9, 2025 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and on Wednesday, December 10, 2025 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. 

Join us for a welcome reception from 6PM - 8PM on Monday, December 8 on the Vigas Patio.  We are providing an Antipasto, vegetable crudité, and a Build Your Own Smores Station. Non-alcoholic beverages will be provided; beer and wine will be available for purchase.  

 Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner will be provided on Tuesday. On the evening of Tuesday, December 9, we will host a dinner session. Breakfast and Lunch provided on Wednesday.

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Westward Look

 

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

 
Start Time
Description
Speaker(s)
Location
8:00 AMBreakfast  Canyon Terrace
9:00 AMState of the Center & Goals for the meetingErin RatcliffCanyon Room

Scientific Session 1: Polarons in Electrochemical Environments

Start Time
Description
Speaker(s)
Location
9:15 AM"Impact of Polarons on the Interphase Structure of Soft Polymer Materials" Megan BrownCanyon Room
9:45 AM"Probing the Polymer/Electrolyte Interphase Across SPECS Material Platforms Using Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation (EQCM-D)"Marcus Hawley & Jude KpareCanyon Room
10:15 AM30-Minute Coffee Break + Discussion Canyon Room

Session 2: Emerging Capabilities

Start Time
Description
Speaker(s)
Location
10:45 AM"Artificial Intelligence for Soft Materials"Chad RiskoCanyon Room
11:15 AM"(Operando) Scattering Methods for Characterization of Dynamic Interphases"Scott DanielsenCanyon Room
11:40 PM10-Minute discussion & Break  
12:00 PMLunch Palm Room

Session 3: Photoelectrochemistry revealed by spectroscopy and computation

Start Time
Description
Speaker(s)
Location
1:00 PM"Understanding the hydrogen Evolution Reaction on Pt-NP/Polymer Cocatalysts"Zhiting Chen & Hong LiCanyon Room
1:30 PM"Energy Loss Mechanisms in Polymer Bulk-Heterojunction Photocathodes for Hydrogen EvolutionjReaction"Bo DongCanyon Room
2:00 PM"Charge-Modulation Microwave Conductivity and Prospects for Spectroscopic Discover of new Photocathode Materials"Obadiah ReidCanyon Room
2:30 PM"Charge Sequestration by a Hydrophilic ETL: Implications for PECWill KopchaCanyon Room
3:00 PM30-Minute Coffee Break + Discussion  

Session 4: Materials Systems for PhotoElectrochemistry

3:30 PM"Charge Transfer Kinetics of N2200 with Viologens at the Polymer | Electrolyte InterphaseShuya LiCanyon Room
4:00 PM"Recent materials developments for photocathodesErin Ratcliff & Seth MarderCanyon Room
4:30 PMOpen Q&A, Discussions (feel free to mingle and chat)  
6:00 PM
Dinner
Palm Room
Start Time
Description
Speaker(s)
Location
6:50 PMTuesday Closing Remarks and discussion of Wednesday Agenda Palm Room
8:00 PM

End

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

 
Start TimeDescriptionSpeaker(s)Location
8:00 AMWelcome and AnnouncementsErin RatcliffCanyon Terrace

Small Group Discussions & Paper Planning

9:00 AMBreak out of Groups for DiscussionsCanyon Room
11:00 AMLunchCanyon Terrace
1:00 PMEnd 
Jen Garcia