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is introducing the industry’s first embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) solution for use in next-generation automotive applications. Embedded UFS solutions have been used in a variety of mobile applications since early 2015, when Samsung introduced 128GB embedded memory based on the JEDEC UFS 2.0 Samsung Electronics Co.,

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The technology enables the production of microbial oil with the help of fungi using waste and residues as a source of energy and carbon. Microbial oil production can be carried out in the bioreactors widely employed by today’s brewers and biotechnology companies. Earlier post.)

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Toyota Research Institute (TRI) ( earlier post ) is making a $22-million investment in research focused on artificial intelligence, robotics and autonomous driving at the University of Michigan (U-M). TRI- CEO Gill Pratt made the announcement in an address to the U-M faculty.

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New research led by Mohammad Masnadi, assistant professor of chemical and petroleum engineering at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, offers a closer look at the relationship between decreasing demand for oil and a resilient, varied oil market—and the carbon footprint associated with both. Masnadi, M.S.,

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Scientists at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, have synthesized a porous liquid with the potential for application in a wide range of new, more efficient and greener chemical processes including carbon capture. They are used for manufacturing a range of products from plastic bottles to petrol. Nicola Giri, Mario G.

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The report highlights the shift in the product strategy of the automotive companies from building discrete products to cognitive AI Systems. With ~$6 billion invested in automotive start-ups in FY 2015, new companies are booming. —Sidhant Rastogi, Partner, Zinnov.

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A team of scientists from LanzaTech, Northwestern University and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have engineered a microbe to convert molecules of industrial waste gases, such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, into acetone and isopropanol (IPA). —Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech. In this case of C.

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in production logistics. Logistics is the heart of our production system. We are taking advantage of the wide range of available technological innovations and working closely with universities and start-ups. —Jürgen Maidl, head of Logistics for the BMW Group production network. technologies today.

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CRAWFORD EMPLOYER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. TITLE ‘Professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering MEMBER GRADE Fellow ALMA MATERS University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ohio State University, Columbus But her engineering path eventually led her back to agriculture.

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The Volkswagen and BASF international “Science Award Electrochemistry 2016” goes to Dr. William Chueh from Stanford University. Dr. Martin Ebner received his PhD in Material Science at the ETH University Zurich. Dr. William C. Martin Brudermüller, Vice Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors and Chief Technology Officer at BASF.

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After leaving GM in 2009, Dr. Burns was a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan (2011-2015), and Director of the Program for Sustainable Mobility at Columbia University (2010-2014). in Mechanical Engineering from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University), an M.S. He received a B.S.

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Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths in 2015—16% of all deaths worldwide—three times more deaths than from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined and 15 times more than from all wars and other forms of violence. Pollution is costly. Landrigan, Philip J et al.

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Europe’s plug-in vehicle sales have been nearly equally split between EV and PHEV since 2015, while more EV than PHEV have been sold in China and the United States. Sales of New Electric & Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles by Country/Region, 2015-2018. Europe - European Alternative Fuels Observatory.

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Rice University scientists, working with colleagues in France, have detected the presence of anthropogenic carbon nanotubes (CBTs) in cells extracted from the airways of Parisian children under routine treatment for asthma. Carbon nanotubes and carbon nanoparticles (a) in vehicle exhaust and (b) inside a lung cell vacuole. Click to enlarge.

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billion) above the FY 2015 enacted level. billion to support the cleanup effort to remediate the environmental legacy of over six decades of nuclear weapons and nuclear research, development, and production. The FY 2016 DOE Budget Request represents a 9% increase ($2.5 42% of the DOE Budget Request ($12.6 Within the $10.7

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Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) are developing a small-scale demonstration reactor that will process 40 tons of wood waste per year from the university into replacements for diesel fuel and gasoline. This will be offered at the university pump in a 10:90 mixture with gasoline. all of which are ?

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Less traffic on the roads during the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK led to a reduction in air pollution but may have caused potentially damaging surface ozone levels to rise, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of York. The 25–75% range is shown by the shaded area.

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A team at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis ( JCAP ) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley is proposing an artificial photosynthesis scheme for direct synthesis and separation to almost pure ethanol with minimum product crossover using saturated salt electrolytes. Earlier post.). Singh and Alexis T.

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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the PTT Chemical Public Company Ltd. The agreement is for the production of dihomo gamma-linolenic acid (DGLA- Omega 6) using BGU’s mutant strain of the green microalgae Parietochloris incise. DGLA’s market potential is estimated at $300 million by 2015.

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Our world-class research team is working on various energy production and storage technologies that could help meet the world’s growing energy needs while advancing a lower-carbon future. Current cell designs can provide gravimetric and volumetric energy densities comparable to lithium-ion and greatly in excess of lead-acid batteries.

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Cuberg spun out of Stanford University in 2015 with the goal of commercializing next-generation battery technology based on a liquid electrolyte combined with a lithium metal anode. Cuberg counts numerous innovative mobility companies among its customers, including Boeing, BETA Technologies, Ampaire and VoltAero.

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Researchers at Washington University in St. Bai worked as a research assistant in the Bose lab in Arts & Sciences from 2015-2020. We hope that it can be a steppingstone for future sustainable solar fuel production. 2021) “n-Butanol production by Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1.” —Wei Bai. Ranaivoarisoa, T.O.,

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University of Washington scientists have sequenced the complete genome of Chrysochromulina tobin —a haptophyte algae and only the second haptophyte to be sequenced. Researchers hope to better understand haptophytes and perhaps transform them into an important new tool for aquaculture, biofuel production and nutrition.

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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a method that can reduce the levels of mercury in sulfuric acid by more than 90%, even from low levels. In the latter case, mercury, which is naturally present in the ore, can end up in the finished products.

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The Ohio Third Frontier awarded $3 million to the University of Dayton Research Institute to provide specialized materials for use in additive manufacturing. UDRI has developed a highly specialized nanomaterial that will reinforce the polymer feedstock, giving the finished product greater strength and stiffness than non-reinforced polymer.

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Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have used a combination of metabolic engineering and directed evolution to develop a new strain of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica featuring significantly enhanced lipids production that could lead to a more efficient biofuel production process.

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The central government’s plan, posted on its website, is targeting the production of 500,000 plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles by 2015, with output to grow to 2 million units of those types by 2020. The scale of China’s automobile production and sales in the world, is expected to continue to grow. L/100km (40 mpg US) or less.

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Despite reports that global emissions of the potent greenhouse gas, HFC-23, were almost eliminated in 2017, an international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has found atmospheric levels growing at record values. As a result, they reported that they had almost completely eliminated HFC-23 emissions by 2017.

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A team at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands has developed an efficient heterogeneous catalyst for the production of hydrogen from formic acid (HCOOH). Hydrogen production rates of more than 60?mol?L In a 2014 paper exploring selective hydrogen production from formic acid using Pd-Au catalysts, Yu et al.

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According to a new report from Pike Research, a rapidly growing global market for electrified vehicles—particularly plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles—will create a Li-ion transportation battery industry with nearly $8 billion in sales worldwide by 2015, up from $878 million in 2010.

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A team of engineers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) recently discovered that a naturally occurring bacterium, Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum TG57, isolated from waste generated after harvesting mushrooms, is capable of directly converting cellulose to biobutanol. Credit: National University of Singapore.

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Researchers at Indiana University have shown —for the first time to their knowledge—that the ethanol-producing bacterium, Zymomonas mobilis , can use nitrogen (N 2 ) gas in lieu of traditional nitrogen supplements. mobilis could save a cellulosic ethanol production facility more than $1 million/y. In a defined medium, Z.

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Scientists at Indiana University have created a highly efficient self-assembling biomaterial that catalyzes the formation of hydrogen. The material is potentially far less expensive and more environmentally friendly to produce than other catalytic materials for hydrogen production. —Professor Douglas. Jordan, Dustin P.

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A new study led by Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Hokkaido University and the University of Washington explains why. After the SO 2 emission control, relatively lower atmospheric acidity promotes the efficiency of sulfate production in the atmosphere, which weakens the response of sulfate level to the SO 2 reduction.

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A team at Monash University (Australia) has developed an “artificial photosynthesis” system that delivers the highest efficiency reported to date—in excess of 22%—for the solar-driven conversion of water to hydrogen. A paper on the researchers’s work is published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science.

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Researchers at the University of Georgia (UGA) have crossed American sweetgums with their Chinese cousins, creating hybrid sweetgum trees that have a better growth rate and denser wood than natives, and can produce fiber year-round. which began offering rooted cutting seedlings of the new varieties in 2015. —Scott Merkle.

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Solaria Labs , an innovation incubator established in 2015 by Liberty Mutual Insurance, is introducing an open API developer portal that combines public data with proprietary insurance knowledge, helping to inform future products and apps for customers. This information can help with safe routing technology. Click to enlarge.

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