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Elcora awarded NSERC-ENGAGE grant to support development of graphene supercapacitors

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between 2016 and 2022. Factors such as high storage capabilities, need for power conservation, high performance supercapacitors for consumer and automotive applications, and additional capabilities such as moisture resistance, light weight and low equivalent series resistance are key drivers for supercapacitor market.

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Ford 2017 trends report: disruption the status quo, “never more difficult” to find objective information

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Oxford Dictionaries recently selected “post-truth” as 2016’s international word of the year, defining it as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less in influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”. Sri Lanka, São Paulo and the US were devastated by floods this year.

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Baltimore Bridge Collapse Has Major Implications for Automotive Sector

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The container ship Dali that collided with the bridge was on its way out of the Port of Baltimore, en route to Colombo, Sri Lanka when it collided with one of the large pillars. Maryland Governor Wes Moore has said that the ship lost power shortly before the incident. At present, it appears to have been a terrible accident.

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