Although the journal was originally meant to include only papers presented at society meetings, in 1952 a mix of unsolicited, as well as meeting papers, began to be published. Beginning in 1967, the journal was divided into 3 sections: Electrochemical Science and Technology, Solid-State Science and Technology, and Reviews and News. The Reviews and News section would be forked off as Interface in 1992, and the Solid-State Science and Technology section became the ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology in 2012.