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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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Distance driven in the United States: Did we reach the peak in 2004?

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This article is the latest publication in a series examining recent changes in various aspects of motorization in the United States. The period covered is 1984 through 2017. The period covered is 1984 through 2017. by 2017 (to 8,834 miles). by 2017 (to 22,796 miles). by Michael Sivak. population). per household).

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Number of vehicles in the United States: Did we reach the peak in 2006?

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In a recent article , I examined changes in distance driven in the United States during the period from 1984 through 2017. While this rate has been on a rebound since 2013, the 2017 rate is still down from 2004 by 5.2%. by 2017 (to 0.769 vehicles). by Michael Sivak. Distance driven per person reached a maximum in 2004.

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Choosing not to drive: A transient or a permanent phenomenon?

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In a 2011 article , Brandon Schoettle and I showed that the proportion of young Americans aged 16 to 39 years with a driver’s license decreased substantially from 1983 to 2008. (In This article reports on two follow-up analyses. The first analysis is an update of the licensing trends through 2017. by Michael Sivak. minus 81.7

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EC approves second major battery innovation project; €2.9B (US$3.5B) from 12 member states

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The direct participants will closely cooperate with each other through nearly 300 collaborations envisaged, and with more than 150 external partners, such as universities, research organisations and SMEs across Europe. In 2017, the Commission launched the European Battery Alliance. Background.

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The Future We Saw Coming Is Now

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We began tracking the first technology, nanosheet transistors , in 2017. By the time we gave all the details in a 2019 feature article , it was clear that this device was destined to be the successor to the FinFET. Forrest was a founder of Universal Display Corp., This article appears in the January 2024 print issue.

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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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