Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 26, 2014
Researchers at the Polymer Technology Group, part of the UPV/EHU’s Department of Polymer Science and Technology and the Institute for Polymer Materials, POLYMAT, in Spain, recently reported the synthesis of high-performance poly(etherimide) (PEI)-based nanocomposites (PNs) with multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) via melt mixing.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 11, 2012
With the new BASF polymer, however, Ford is able to skip that painting step, thereby reducing cost and environmental impacts during production of the 2013 Ford Fusion. Traditionally, such molded plastic pieces have been painted with a high-gloss finish to deliver both design and durability. to Grand Rapids, Mich.
Green Car Congress
MAY 31, 2013
Oxis’ standard polymer Li-S pouch cell has surpassed 450 cycles. Oxis Energy, a UK-based developer of lithium-sulfur batteries, reported via Twitter that one of its standard polymer Li-S pouch cells surpassed 450 cycles this week. Click to enlarge. earlier post ) and have not as yet achieved broad commercialization.
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NOVEMBER 17, 2013
Top: The stress of repeated swelling and shrinking shatters a conventional silicon electrode and its polymer binding. Bottom: An electrode coated with stretchy, self-healing polymer remains intact. (C. To make the self-healing coating, the scientists deliberately weakened some of the chemical bonds within polymers. Wang et al.,
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 22, 2013
Dunn of the Singapore University of Technology and Design incorporated shape memory polymer fibers into the composite materials used in conventional 3D printing (additive manufacturing), which results in the production of an object fixed in one shape that can later be changed to take on a new shape. Ge, Qi and Qi, H.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 22, 2013
2013 Sonata Hybrid. The 2013 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid offers increased fuel efficiency and operation in all-electric mode more often and for longer periods of time, with an advanced version of the brand’s Hybrid Blue Drive architecture. Ah, 47 kW Lithium Polymer battery pack and an optimized hybrid operating strategy.
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DECEMBER 11, 2013
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the winners of the 2013 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. Dow’s EVOQUE technology uses a polymer coating which, when applied to TiO 2 , improves dispersion of the pigment, decreasing the amount of the chemical needed and allowing it to work better.
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