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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. For example, the fuel cells require additional heavy converters to manage their wide voltage range. The weight of these bulky converters ultimately reduces the range of the train. Left: A prototype of the new hydrogen cell converter.

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materials that get converted into entirely new products when they react with lithium), can store more energy than today’s electrode materials because they can accommodate more lithium ions. —co-corresponding author Zhongwei Chen, a professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

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Increasing student membership IEEE has many university student members but, like other professional organizations, the majority of these student members don’t continue as higher-grade members. For IEEE to remain vital and relevant, we must convert more student members to members and then engage and retain them.

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One of the main challenges of second-generation biofuel production is identifying enzymes produced by microorganisms for use in a cocktail of enzymes to catalyze biomass hydrolysis, in which the enzymes act together to break down the carbohydrates in sugarcane trash and bagasse, for example, and convert them into simple sugars for fermentation.

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He gave the example of a visitor to the University of Oxford who sees colleges and a splendid library and then asks, “But where is the university?” The category mistake is obvious: A university is an institution, not a collection of buildings. Such shares are comparable only to the spending that was required to win World War II.

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Photos have become the universal form of casual conversation,” he said in a 2018 interview with The Institute. Smith at Bell Labs , consist of a sensor that converts an incoming two-dimensional light pattern into an electrical signal that in turn becomes an image. CCDs, which were invented in 1969 by Willard Boyle and George E.

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Larry Wackett, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Minnesota, has a paper in press in the journal Current Opinion in Biotechnology reviewing approaches to engineering microbes to produce advanced biofuels, including renewable hydrocarbons. Wackett is also lead investigator in a $2.2-million

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A team of scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) working in collaboration with Tohoku University, Tokyo City University and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency has proposed a novel, more efficient method to reduce radioactive waste.

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Researchers at MIT and Stanford University have developed new battery technology for the conversion of low-temperature waste heat into electricity in cases where temperature differences are less than 100 degrees Celsius. converting heat to electricity. It is a very promising technology. Batteries Waste Heat Recovery'

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Researchers at the University of Delaware have developed a highly selective nanoporous silver catalyst capable of electrochemically reducing carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide with 92% efficiency. The carbon monoxide then can be used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals. The researcher reported their findings in Nature Communications.

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Miscanthus, a perennial grass with vast potential to produce biomass, would deliver even better yields than once thought in Iowa, according to research by agronomists at Iowa State University. The article also reports that yields in the second year of the study were not significantly lower than the third year.

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Converting oil shale to gasoline via the Alberta Taciuk Processor (ATP)—an above-ground shale retort—results in fuel-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of ~130-150 g CO 2 equivalent/MJ of gasoline produced, according to a new analysis by Dr. Adam Brandt at Stanford University. Energy Fuels , Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef900678d.

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Now, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and UC Berkeley have engineered yeast to convert cellulosic sugars and toxic levels of acetate together into ethanol under anaerobic conditions. The buildup of acetic acid also killed off much of the yeast. Click to enlarge. Biotech Cellulosic ethanol'

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JANUARY 21, 2014

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering have rewired the native metabolism of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica for superior production of lipids (lipogenesis). The team subsequently converted the lipids to biodiesel. 1 lipids—a 60-fold improvement over parental strain and conditions.

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Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland, Imperial College London and University College London have devised a synthetic metabolic pathway for producing renewable propane from engineered E. coli bacteria. an aldehyde-deformylating oxygenase (ADO) to form the final product, propane. Kalim Akhtar & Patrik R.

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Using particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO), the researchers created a biocatalytic polymer material that converts methane to methanol. The LLNL team collaborated with (link is external)Northwestern University (link is external) researchers Sarah Sirajuddin and Professor Amy Rosenzweig. Craig D.

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A new review article in the journal Science highlights emerging opportunities to increase the transformation of lignin to value-added products—i.e., lignin valorization. Conventionally, most large-scale industrial processes that use plant polysaccharides burn lignin to generate the power needed to transform biomass. Ragauskas, et al.,

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in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. An expert in power electronic converters, electrical machines, and novel grid components, he spent almost his entire career in academia, conducting research in power electronics. from the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia, in 1959.

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Researchers at Colorado State University have shown that under relatively mild conditions (?140 The biomass-derived sugars can be converted into fuels and value-added chemicals by liquid-phase catalytic processing. Not only glucose, but also other reducing sugars can be subsequently converted to HMF (with aid of the catalyst CrCl 2 ).

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Two Approaches for the Auto Enthusiast This article may contain affiliate links. Picture yourself behind the wheel of a vintage convertible Mustang, the wind in your hair as you cruise down a sun-drenched highway. When it comes to cars, it’s not just about getting from point A to point B.

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Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have discovered a natural process for the breakdown of biomass they describe as “reverse photosynthesis”—as opposed to the building of biomass as is the case with photosynthesis. —University of Copenhagen Professor Claus Felby, who led the research. Jensen, M. Bjerrum, K.

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MARCH 23, 2022

Heretofore, pulling off that magic trick required the ability to detect light that had interacted with the genuine, real-world article. But scientists at Rice University, in Texas, have demonstrated a technique for zapping e-waste with bursts of electricity that heat the materials to feverish temperatures in a matter of seconds.

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He also calculated that the system could result in a cost of 2 converted and stored as Ca(HCO 3 ) 2(aq). Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es102671x. Rau used a hollow, cylindrical Plexiglas reactor modified to allow seawater and gas streams to enter, longitudinally flow through, and exit the reactor chamber that had been filled with 2.2-2.5

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In the quest to realize artificial photosynthesis to convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into fuel—just as plants do—researchers need to not only identify materials to efficiently perform photoelectrochemical water splitting, but also to understand why a certain material may or may not work. —Francesca Toma.

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The study was led by scientists at Utrecht University, working with colleagues at the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and the University of Southampton. Algae use photosynthesis to harvest the energy of the sun, converting carbon dioxide and water into the organic molecules required for growth. Houben, A.

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Researchers from the University of Michigan and Zhejiang University (China) are developing a new pathway—catalytic hydrothermal decarboxylation—to produce liquid hydrocarbon (i.e., “drop-in”) transportation fuel components from fatty acids.

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According to the findings by the team from the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , even the most land-use efficient biomass-based pathway (i.e.,

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A team at China’s Southeast University in Nanjing is developing a process to improve the thermal stability and heating value of bio-oil produced using catalytic fast pyrolysis. Energy Fuels , Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef900720m. A paper on their work was published online in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels on 19 October.

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Universal Display Corp. OLEDs—organic light-emitting diodes—convert electrical energy directly into photons. This article appears in the January 2024 print issue as “A Behind-the-Screens Change for OLED.” And energy efficiency is a toss-up, depending on the images being displayed.

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According to a Harvard University study, there is a striking association between long-term exposure to harmful fine particulate matter and COVID-19 mortality in the United States. We have tried to dispel some of the myths regarding EVs in this article. Engines that run on petrol or diesel are one of the main sources of PM2.5

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The green microalga Botryococcus braunii is considered a promising biofuel feedstock producer due to its prodigious accumulation of hydrocarbon oils that can be converted into fuels. Now, a team led by researchers from Texas A&M AgriLife Research has identified the first committed step in the biosynthesis of hydrocarbon oil in B.

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For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K. argue that, “Focusing solely on electric vehicles is slowing down the race to zero emissions.”

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In 1997, Willett Kempton , a professor at the University of Delaware, and Steve Letendre , a professor at Green Mountain College, in Vermont, began publishing a series of journal articles that imagined the bidirectional EV as a resource for electricity utilities. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6 After earning a Ph.D.

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The team focused on yeast in part because of its important modern-day applications; yeasts are used to convert the sugars of biomass feedstocks into biofuels such as ethanol and industrial chemicals such as lactic acid, or to break down organic pollutants.

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It was an immense challenge to convert our huge, heavy computer-vision models into something an iPhone could run. To learn about which technologies to use, Ahn helped the students get access to research articles from a variety of IEEE publications including. But, thanks to. Apple’s Neural Engine , it was possible—and worth it.”.

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She joined IBM Research in Zurich in 1998 while pursuing her doctorate in physics in collaboration with the University of Bayreuth , also in Germany. Because of the nature of quantum physics, qubits can be in a state of superposition, whereby they are both 1 and 0 simultaneously, as explained in a 2020 IEEE Spectrum article.

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A team at Purdue University has used pollens as the basis for carbon architectures for anodes in energy storage devices. Pol (2016) “From Allergens to Battery Anodes: Nature-Inspired, Pollen Derived Carbon Architectures for Room-and Elevated-Temperature Li-ion Storage” Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 20290 doi: 10.1038/srep20290.

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