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MARCH 10, 2016
In the paper in Nature they showed that intermediate-temperature (200 to 350 ˚C) molten salts containing caesium or potassium cations enable carbonate ions (CO 3 2– ) to deprotonate very weakly acidic C–H bonds, generating carbon-centered nucleophiles that react with CO 2 to form carboxylates. —Banerjee et al.
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MARCH 19, 2015
The project will draw on ORNL’s expertise in fuels, materials, instrumentation and controls, design concepts, and modeling and simulation for advanced reactors, as well as the lab’s experience in the design, construction and operation of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, the only molten salt reactor ever built.
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The startup Kyoto Group , based in the Netherlands, is targeting this industrial use of heat with their thermal storage system, which stores energy in the form of molten salt. Maplewell Energy , a Colorado-based company which makes software that automates these decisions, hopes to make that easy for commercial customers.
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FEBRUARY 19, 2016
Since the commercialization of Li-ion batteries by Sony in 1991, lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO 2 ) has been extensively studied as a positive electrode material in rechargeable lithium batteries. However, so far, no definitive electrode material has been utilized commercially. One of the compositions—Na 0.093 Li 0.57
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JULY 22, 2016
Of the ionic liquids, the scientists determined that cholinium lysinate, an ionic liquid formed by mixing the amino acids choline and lysine, was most compatible with commercially available enzyme mixtures and fermentation mixtures. The process is easily reversible, allowing the liquid to be recycled for use as a solvent again.
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MARCH 23, 2016
MIT professor Donald Sadoway and his team have demonstrated a long-cycle-life calcium-metal-based liquid-metal rechargeable battery for grid-scale energy storage, overcoming the problems that have precluded the use of the element: its high melting temperature, high reactivity and unfavorably high solubility in molten salts.
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AUGUST 10, 2015
Researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory are designing a 32 T superconducting magnet, due for completion in 2016. Two inner coils of YBCO, fabricated at the MagLab will be surrounded by a commercial outsert consisting of three coils of niobium-tin and two coils of niobium-titanium. 32 T superconductor magnet.
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