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ExxonMobil and Global Thermostat in joint development agreement to advance atmospheric carbon capture technology

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The company recently committed to spend up to $100 million over 10 years on research with the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory and National Energy Technology Laboratory to bring lower-emissions technologies to commercial scale.

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Ames Laboratory and Catilin Seek to Commercialize New Nanoparticle-Based Algal Oil Extraction Process

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Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University have developed a unique method that uses sponge-like mesoporous nanoparticles to harvest biofuel oils from algae without harming the algae. Phase three will focus on scale-up of the catalyst and pilot plant testing on conversion to biodiesel.

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Bulk antimony sulfide electrodes for Li-ion batteries show high capacity, cycle stability; small particle size not necessary

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Researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) report in an open access paper in Scientific Reports that bulk antimony sulfide (Sb 2 S 3 ) with a size of 10–20 ?m 1 at a rate of 2000 mA g ?1 Both Sb 2 S 3 wires and bulk Sb 2 S 3 electrodes showed similar charge-discharge peaks for alloying and conversion reactions of Sb 2 S 3.

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Viral Genetics Appoints John Sheehan to Advisory Board to Accelerate Biofuel Work

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Viral Genetics has the exclusive right to develop commercial applications for this technology. For 17 years, he worked as a project manager and analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado, where he led research on the production and conversion of algae to biofuels. John Sheehan.

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What Texas Instruments’ Little Professor Can Teach Us

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They reach out from their exhibit case to spark conversations with visitors: “I remember Grandma having a slide rule like that.” I encountered this funny-looking calculator during a recent visit to the Whipple Museum of the History of Science , at the University of Cambridge. Which brings me to the object at top. www.youtube.com.

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In 1961, the First Robot Arm Punched In

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Then the conversation turned more serious. Devol was an inventor and entrepreneur who had founded several companies to commercialize his various inventions. He had earned a bachelor’s degree in physics in 1946 and a master’s in electrical engineering in 1949, both from Columbia University. The pair needed funding.

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Engineered E. coli produce styrene from glucose

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Engineers at Arizona State University have engineered E. The conversion of endogenously synthesized l-phenylalanine to styrene was achieved by the co-expression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase and trans-cinnamate decarboxylase. There are two commercially viable methods of producing styrene. —McKenna and Nielsen.

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