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MIT researchers develop optimized sulfidation separation process for rare earth and other key metals

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New processing methods developed by MIT researchers could help ease looming shortages of the essential metals that power everything from phones to automotive batteries by making it easier to separate these rare metals from mining ores and recycled materials. —Antoine Allanore. Cite this article Stinn, C., Allanore, A.

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Liquid Metal Battery Corp secures patent rights from MIT

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Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. Patents for all liquid metal battery inventions were licensed from MIT.

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Toyota establishing new artificial intelligence R&D company; $1B investment over 5 years

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Toyota Motor Corporation is establishing a new company, Toyota Research Institute Inc. The headquarters will be located in Silicon Valley near Stanford University, with a second facility to be located near MIT. TRI), as an R&D enterprise with an initial focus on artificial intelligence and robotics.

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Rusatom Overseas and CNNC New Energy to partner on floating nuclear power plants

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Rusatom Overseas, a subsidiary of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM, and CNNC New Energy (China) signed a Memorandum of Intent to cooperate in the development of floating nuclear power plants. The next step in the implementation of the project will be establishment of a joint Chinese-Russian working group.

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Toyota Research Institute CEO Pratt outlines initial AI/robotics mandates; trillion-mile reliability

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The investment is in addition to the $50 million investment over the next five years with MIT and Stanford, each close by TRI’s new offices, to establish joint fundamental artificial intelligence research centers at each university.) To those ends, TRI has launched 30 initial projects with its partners at Stanford and MIT.

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Liquid metal battery company Ambri raises $35M in Series C

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Ambri (formerly Liquid Metal Battery Corporation) is developing an electricity storage solution that was invented in the lab of Dr. Donald Sadoway, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, along with Dr. Ambri announced the opening of its prototype cell manufacturing facility in Marlborough, MA in the fall of 2013.

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Univ. of Maryland researchers using modified Tobacco Mosaic Virus as template for Li-ion electrodes

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In parallel, we are collaborating with our colleagues at Drexel and MIT to construct surfaces that resemble the structure of plant leaves. Culver (2010) Virus-Enabled Silicon Anode for Lithium-Ion Batteries. James Culver’s work is conducted in collaboration with Purdue University professor Michael Harris. Resources.

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