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ECS announces 2023-2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship recipients

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Bai received his BS in Materials Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2010 and MS in Materials Science in 2012 from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Yadong Yin at the University of California, Riverside, in 2017. Yuzhang Li, University of California, Los Angeles.

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UCSD, South 8 team report improved liquefied-gas electrolytes for Li-metal batteries

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Improvements to a class of battery electrolyte first introduced in 2017—liquefied gas electrolytes—could pave the way to replacing the graphite anode with a lithium-metal anode. cycling efficiency reported in the 2017 Science paper, and an 85% cycling efficiency for lithium metal anodes with a conventional (liquid) electrolyte.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Williams was granted 27 U.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. Ferreira's first job, in 1981, was at the Institute of Power Electronics and Electric Drives at Aachen University , in Germany. He was granted 15 patents. patents during his time at IBM.

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Cambridge team demonstrates light-driven photoreforming of unprocessed biomass to H2 at room temperature

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A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge has reported the light-driven photoreforming of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin to H 2 using semiconducting cadmium sulfide quantum dots in alkaline aqueous solution. Wakerley, Moritz F. Kuehnel, Katherine L. Orchard, Khoa H. Ly, Timothy E. 2017.21.

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Magnetic-Confinement Fusion Without the Magnets

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The startup was founded in 2017 as a spin-off of the FuZE (Fusion Z-pinch Experiment) research team at the. University of Washington. Before the company’s founding, the university team had collaborated with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers. The company produced its first fusion reactions the very next year.

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Rice, Lawrence Livermore scientists develop new efficient non-Pt MX2 catalyst for efficient hydrogen production; Materials Genome Initiative in action

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Scientists at Rice University and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have predicted and created new two-dimensional electrocatalysts—low-cost, layered transition-metal dichalcogenides (MX 2 ) based on molybdenum and tungsten—to extract hydrogen from water with high performance and low cost. —co-author Jun Lou.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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In the United States, eighth graders scored an average of 271 out of 500 in math on last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress , as highlighted in a New York Times article. After earning a master’s degree in electrical engineering from MIT in 2009, she went on to earn a master’s degree in education in 2011 from Boston University.