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JANUARY 14, 2022

The findings could spur progress on developing a variety of materials and designs for electrochemical carbon dioxide conversion systems. There are several ways to do such conversions, including electrochemical, thermocatalytic, photothermal, or photochemical processes—each with their own problems or challenges. Lake, and Kripa K.

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OCTOBER 13, 2019

However, weak gas-binding ability and/or poor sample crystallinity after guest exchange hindered the development of efficient materials for CO 2 incorporation, activation and conversion. Together with an excellent stability with turnover numbers (TON) of up to 39,000 per Zn 1.5 —Wu et al.

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DECEMBER 12, 2015

Scientists from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered that a metabolic pathway previously only suggested to be functional in photosynthetic organisms is actually a major pathway and can enable efficient conversion of carbon dioxide to organic compounds. 2015.187.

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APRIL 11, 2024

Vulcan’s lithium chloride output will be converted into battery-grade lithium hydroxide at the company’s new conversion plant in Frankfurt in the second half of the year, Moreno said. “We’re looking to close the financing in the next probably four to five months,” Moreno added.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

The high thermoelectric figure of merit is expected to enable the conversion of 14% of heat waste to electricity. Articles ASAP doi: 10.1021/nl104138t. And a team from Northwestern University and the University of Michigan reported experimentally achieving a ZT of 1.7 at ~800 K (527 °C) by structurally modifying lead telluride.

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MARCH 4, 2024

The deal will help finance the PAK Lithium Project mine and a planned lithium chemicals conversion facility, Frontier said, as the company aims to become a major supplier of the key mineral used in EV batteries to the North American supply chain. Frontier shares were trading at C$1.06 Mitsubishi will buy a 7.5%

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JUNE 10, 2019

Magnetite, among other conversion-type electrode materials (i.e., In the following charge, this conversion reaction is not completely reversible—residues of metallic iron and lithium oxide remain. Because the conversion reaction is not fully reversible, these residual products accumulate.

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

Stinn and colleagues in the lab have built a reactor that can process about 10 kilograms of raw material per day, and the researchers are starting conversations with several corporations about the possibilities. Cite this article Stinn, C., Allanore, A. 2021) “Selective sulfidation of metal compounds.”

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Researchers from Japan and Mexico have developed a one-step hydrotreatment process over catalysts containing Ni-Mo and solid acids for the conversion of vegetable oils (Jatropha, palm and canola) to renewable diesel and LPG fuels. Energy & Fuels Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef200889e. to 0.79; and viscosity at 30 °C (mPA/s) from 3.82

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JUNE 15, 2010

Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ja103982t. Further studies to elucidate the mechanistic details and improve the catalytic efficiencies are in progress. Sumit Chakraborty, Jie Zhang, Jeanette A. Krause and Hairong Guan (2010) An Efficient Nickel Catalyst for the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide with a Borane.

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JUNE 18, 2013

WGS is an endothermic process typically carried out in industry at high temperatures (about 350 °C) with either an iron oxide- or copper-based catalyst to achieve almost complete CO conversion. The most active photocatalyst tested was Au/TiO 2 which achieves CO conversion of about 40% in 4 hours under the tested reaction conditions.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Many of this year's top articles grappled with the limits of deep learning (today's dominant strand of AI) and spotlighted researchers seeking new paths. Here are the 10 most popular AI articles that Spectrum published in 2021, ranked by the amount of time people spent reading them. Their article isn't a total downer, though.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Talking hands-free on a mobile phone while driving is just as distracting as a conversation using a hand-held phone, according to a recent study by researchers at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia. An epidemiological study found that mobile phone conversations increase crash risk by a factor of four.

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OCTOBER 3, 2010

However, conversion of 1-nitropyrene by the DPF was less than 50% for all fuels. The DPF was highly effective for conversion of carbonyls, with the exception of formaldehyde. Voorhees (2010) Article Diesel Particle Filter and Fuel Effects on Heavy-Duty Diesel Engine Emissions. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es1008032.

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APRIL 22, 2020

In this article, we report our findings from the creation of a perovskite TCO electrode PrNi 0.5 In this article, we report our findings from the creation of a perovskite TCO electrode PrNi 0.5 PNC) in the PCECs with superior WOR and ORR activity. Nat Commun 11, 1907 doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15677-z.

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JULY 17, 2011

Direct thermal conversion can be a more feasible process to obtain bitumen-derived liquid products from oil-wet oil sand, they say. Therefore, the thermal reaction behaviors of oil sand bitumen in a fluid thermal reactor are also worthy of investigation to widen the feedstock resources for fluid thermal processing. —Zhang et al.

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MARCH 14, 2017

Biomass conversion is one of the most affordable routes to generate sustainable H 2 , but this process requires the demanding chemical transformation of lignocellulose. In the interest of increasing the selectivity and efficiency of this conversion, it is possible to replace the thermal input with sunlight. Wakerley, Moritz F.

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APRIL 14, 2017

Solar-to-chemical energy conversion for energy storage, fuels and feedstocks, particularly to address greenhouse gas emissions, is one of the primary goals for scientists in the field of solar energy generation. QDs, which are spherical semiconductor nanocrystals (2-10 nm in diameter), enhance the MEG process. Yong Yan, Ryan W. 2017.52.

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

In recent years a team at the University of St Andrews has been exploring metal nanoparticles prepared by redox exsolution at the surface of perovskite oxides and have shown these structures to enable new dimensions in catalysis and energy conversion and storage technologies owing to their socketed, well-anchored structure. (In

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APRIL 20, 2011

Conversion to work via. Scale of conversion to work. Waste heat from conversion. electricity) in the subsurface, rather than in distributed internal combustion engines, allowing waste heat from work conversion to supply the heat of retorting. times those from other proposed oil shale conversion processes.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2010

from 360 °C with both high reaction rates and final chemical conversions of greater than 90%. The almost complete chemical conversions obtained in a few seconds suggest that this common reactor technology could be suitable for implementing the solid/gas reaction at a large scale. Energy Fuels , Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef101092u.

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JUNE 15, 2016

Methane monooxygenases (MMOs), found in methanotrophic bacteria, are selective catalysts for methane activation and conversion to methanol under mild conditions; however, these enzymes are not amenable to standard enzyme immobilization approaches. The enzymes retain up to 100% activity in the polymer construct. Blanchette, Jennifer M.

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JANUARY 4, 2013

A new spatially-explicit life cycle assessment of five different “sun-to-wheels” conversion pathways—ethanol from corn or switchgrass for internal combustion vehicles (ICVs); electricity from corn or switchgrass for battery-electric vehicles (BEVs); and photovoltaic electricity for BEVs—found a strong case for PV BEVs.

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JANUARY 1, 2011

A 1966 article in ACS’ Chemical & Engineering News described a General Motors press conference at which the automaker outlined research work being done on non-gasoline-based automotive power sources, with a heavy emphasis on the electrical. Electrovan—a hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell-powered GMC van. 24, page 55).

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

Transmutation is a change induced by neutron capture that results in the conversion of LLFPs to short-lived or non-radioactive nuclides. Minor actinides are elements synthesized in nuclear fuel other than uranium and plutonium, such as neptunium, americium and curium.

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AUGUST 6, 2011

The team also suggested that algae systems can be either net energy positive or negative depending on the specific combination of cultivation and conversion processes used. Unit operations pertinent to assessment of four specific conversion pathways are shaded (gray) in panels A-D at bottom. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 30, 2014

Selective conversion of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide is a promising route for clean energy but it is a technically difficult process to accomplish. Chen & Feng Jiao (2014) “A selective and efficient electrocatalyst for carbon dioxide reduction,” Nature Communications 5, Article number: 3242 doi: 10.1038/ncomms4242.

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APRIL 13, 2017

For example: Electricity generated by commercial solar cells can be sent through power conversion systems to an electrolyzer to decompose water into hydrogen and oxygen at an approximate STH efficiency of 12%. Other methods that use sunlight entail additional loss-generating steps. Young, Myles A. Steiner, Henning Döscher, Ryan M. 2017.28.

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JULY 23, 2013

Researchers in South Korea have developed a simple, low-cost and eco-friendly method of creating nitrogen-doped graphene nanoplatelets (NGnPs) with excellent catalytic performance in both dye-sensitized solar cells and fuel cells to replace conventional platinum (Pt)-based catalysts for energy conversion. —Jeon et al. 1116897109.

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MARCH 18, 2010

Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have developed a calculation procedure to estimate the maximum theoretical yields, as well as predictions of the conversion efficiencies in terms of mass, carbon, and energy efficiency, of selected biorefinery production chains. kg of bioethanol, 0.06

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MARCH 14, 2010

The platinum-rhenium catalyst showed the highest conversion, along with high selectivity for C 18. They found that at temperature as low as 543 K (270 °C), a platinum catalyst on a zeolite support (Pt/H-ZSM-5) achieved approximately 100% conversion into hydrocarbons, with selectivity to C 15 -C 18 hydrocarbons of 79.0%. Murata et al.

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JULY 1, 2019

The UC San Diego team’s simulation and characterization tools, many developed in the Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion led by Shirley Meng, allow the researchers to explain why lithium metal anodes perform better with liquefied gas electrolytes. In contrast, most of conventional electrolytes fail to work below minus 20 ?C.

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OCTOBER 8, 2013

One major bottleneck is the economic conversion of hemicellulose, one of the main structural components in D-xylulose lignocellulosic biomass along with cellulose, into biofuels. Xylose conversion and acetic acid detoxification are two major problems that must be solved to make cellulosic biofuels economically viable. —Wei et al.

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JUNE 15, 2019

glucosidase and belongs to glycoside hydrolase family 1 (GH1), acts in the last stage of biomass degradation to produce free glucose for fermentation and conversion into ethanol. The enzyme, which is called ?-glucosidase In the laboratory, however, the researchers observed that high levels of glucose inhibited the activity of ?-glucosidase.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016

A vast biomass resource with wide selectivity of morphologies is pollen. Herein, we report the conversion of allergenic pollen grains into carbon microstructures through a facile, one-step, solid-state thermochemical decomposition in an inert atmosphere at elevated temperatures. Jialiang Tang & Vilas G.

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JULY 23, 2010

Notably, Fe-TAMLs have low molecular weights (~500 g/mol) and are based on iron, the safest and most abundant transition metal, which helps to set this research on an affordable trajectory for large-scale conversion of solar to chemical energy. Resources. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ja104766. Ellis et al. Chadwick Ellis, Neal D.

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AUGUST 18, 2014

(b) Defluorination of the in-situ formed carbon fluorides by the conversion reaction with lithium ions; meanwhile, additional lithium ions store in the defective carbons. (c) c) Lithium ions release from the defective carbons; meanwhile, the fluorination of the defective carbons by the reversed conversion reaction in (b). Batteries'

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