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OCTOBER 12, 2021

One is to develop technologies that can be used to defend their nation against adversaries. Last year Walker joined the private sector as vice president and chief technology officer at defense contractor Lockheed Martin. My desire was to join the Air Force and help build technologies to secure the nation," he says. "I

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Barroso was born in Brazil and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 1989 in electrical engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. Rao authored more than 14 books and 400 journal articles during his career.

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APRIL 23, 2017

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have used waste glass bottles and a low-cost chemical process to fabricate nanosilicon anodes for high-performance lithium-ion batteries. The UCR Office of Technology Commercialization has filed a patent application for the inventions above.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

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.

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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.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This is not a technology problem; it’s a business-model problem.”. Alma mater: University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. An article describing how the platform works was published in the September issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. “If It’s a very dangerous situation,” Alamouti warns. About Siavash Alamouti.

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MAY 19, 2014

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. —Ragauskas et al. Ragauskas, et al., 2014) “Lignin Valorization: Improving Lignin Processing in the Biorefinery.”

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NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In a new article published in Nature, scientists from Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) and Aix-Marseille University (France) describe how insects detect gravity. Paper ] D'Manus is a 10 DoF, low-cost, reliable prehensile hand. And how we could perhaps copy from nature. [

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NOVEMBER 30, 2013

A team from the University of Science and Technology Beijing is proposing a new super-valent battery based on aluminium ion intercalation and deintercalation. Owing to its low cost, easy operation and high security, the aluminium-ion battery has exhibited excellent prospects. Wang et al. Click to enlarge. Batteries'

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JULY 9, 2014

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have synthesized a porous nano-silicon material from beach sand (SiO 2 ) via a highly scalable heat scavenger-assisted magnesiothermic—i.e., The research is supported by Temiz Energy Technologies. —Favors et al. —Favors et al.

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MAY 2, 2011

A team from Nanyang Technological University (China) has developed a scalable self-assembly strategy to create bio-inspired honeycomb-like hierarchical structures composed of functionalized graphene sheets to work as anodes in lithium-ion batteries. ACS Nano Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/nn2001728. Credit: ACS, Yin et al.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

A team from Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has developed a new practical, high-energy-capacity lithium-ion battery anode out of silicon by encapsulating Si microparticles (∼1–3 µm) using conformally synthesized cages of multilayered graphene. —Yi Cui. 2015.29.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This is a sponsored article brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. While the general design of SONYC and FloodNet sensor networks build upon the same basic concept of sensor networks, they are based on two different types of sensor technologies. The technology itself is location agnostic," said Mydlarz.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The technology had many precursors, including German “ gramophone postcards ” and Soviet “ bone music ”—jazz or rock recordings pressed on to discarded X-ray film to avoid government censorship. Fortunately, our building is located across the street from the Marr Sound Archives at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Bayless, S.

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JUNE 4, 2013

A team at Stanford University has developed stable silicon Li-ion battery anodes by incorporating a conducting polymer hydrogel into the Si-based material. Moreover, the solution synthesis and electrode fabrication process are highly scalable and compatible with existing slurry coating battery manufacturing technology. —Wu et al.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Increased availability of low CO 2 sources of electricity and hydrogen could counter-intuitively delay, rather than accelerate, a large-scale transition to an electric and/or hydrogen vehicle fleet, according to a new study by researchers from Ford Motor Company and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Anderson, S.

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MAY 9, 2018

Researchers at the University of Exeter (UK) have developed a novel p-type LaFeO 3 photoelectrode using an inexpensive and scalable spray pyrolysis method. The greatest challenge is to develop a suitable technology for large scale and cost effective solar fuel production to compete with fossil fuel. —Pawar and Tahir.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

A team of researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Italy), and Stanford University have synthesized ultrathin LiMn 2 O 4 nanowires for use as a Li-ion cathode material offering high power densities. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/nl101047f.

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APRIL 23, 2022

This article was first published as "‘PostScript’ prints anything: a case history." The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips. San Jose, Calif.,

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AUGUST 22, 2014

Researchers at Stanford University, with colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other institutions, have developed a nickel-based electrocatalyst for low-cost water-splitting for hydrogen production with performance close to that of much more expensive commercial platinum electrocatalysts. Credit: Gong et al.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

A team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University has developed a high-rate, high-capacity and long-lived anode for Li-ion batteries comprising a yolk-shell nanocomposite of aluminum core (30 nm in diameter) and TiO 2 shell (~3 nm in thickness), with a tunable interspace (Al@TiO 2 , or ATO). —Li et al.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

This is a sponsored article brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. New York University’s. It was also very important for me to be at a university that has a strong connection between engineering and medicine. Creating a shared physical hub leads to a convolution of what we do.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Before the development of USB (Universal Serial Bus), it was often tricky to connect external devices. The Universal Serial Bus, which was released in 1996 by Intel , simplified things. The industry as a whole recognized that it had a big problem that needed to be solved,” Jim Pappas said in an Intel article on the USB interface.

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MARCH 5, 2013

This article extends the construction of direct solar-to-fuels devices, such as the artificial leaf based on crystalline silicon. Considering recent cost reductions of Si solar cells, this paper offers a path to the construction of low cost solar-to-fuels devices. —Winkler et al. Winkler, Casandra R. Cox, Daniel G.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Boston Dynamics ] This is pretty cool: BruBotics is testing their self-healing robotics gripper technology on commercial grippers from Festo. You should read our in-depth article on Stretch 3, so if you haven’t yet, consider this as just a teaser. IHMC ] We’re hard at work, but Atlas still has time for a dance break.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This sponsored article is brought to you by Technology Innovation Institute. Just last year, a half dozen precisely targeted malicious drones managed to slow oil production in Saudi Arabia for days, and more recently, several low-cost drones caused significant damage to oil tankers in the UAE.

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MARCH 10, 2018

The startup is developing the technology’s ability to combine and separate individual molecules to make gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel using CO 2 removed from the air. The difficulty and high cost of making CNT membranes has confined them to university laboratories and has been frequently cited as the limiting factor in their widespread use.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

A digital microscope that uses holography and deep-learning technology could detect COVID-19 in a drop of blood. He is the director of the Multidimensional Optical Sensing and Imaging Systems Lab at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Javidi's team worked with doctors at the university's health center to obtain the blood samples.

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MAY 7, 2024

Likewise, a technological ecosystem has its headline firms (Apple, Microsoft, Tesla), but these rely on interrelated networks of companies that are little-known to the general public (FoxConn, Panasonic, ABB), but that provide indispensable services (and sometimes substantial profits). We are an enabler of that.”

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MAY 7, 2024

Likewise, a technological ecosystem has its headline firms (Apple, Microsoft, Tesla), but these rely on interrelated networks of companies that are little-known to the general public (FoxConn, Panasonic, ABB), but that provide indispensable services (and sometimes substantial profits). We are an enabler of that.”

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Thus it is of both fundamental and technological significance to improve the performance of Pt-based HER catalysts6 or develop viable alternatives that are of low cost and high performance for HER electrocatalysis in alkaline electrolytes (e.g., transition metal oxides, chalcogenides, and phosphides).

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FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Yissum , the Research and Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is offering a novel anode for sodium-ion batteries (Na-ion, NIB) which enables the production of a battery with high capacity, excellent rate capability and good cycle performance. Yissum is the technology transfer company of the University.

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JUNE 6, 2013

Researchers from South Korea, Case Western Reserve University and University of North Texas have synthesized new inexpensive and easily produced metal-free catalysts—edge-selectively halogenated graphene nanoplatelets (XGnPs)—that can perform better than platinum in oxygen-reduction reactions. —Jeon et al.

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DECEMBER 4, 2009

And EVJerr's blogging from Tucson with a couple sites to hit -- the popular bookstore, Bookman's is installing two e-vehicle chargers at two sites and one in Phoenix (See Arizona Daily Star, Thursday, 3 Dec "Ground broken for e-vehicle chargers" article by Dan Sorenson). Beginning early next year, 150 vehicles will start arriving in the U.S.,

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JULY 22, 2009

Dr. Don Paul is the Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute and a former vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron. As another panelist pointed out, “ The New York Times is well-equipped to write the article about how Stimulus Funds have been wasted ”. Earlier post.). Eight months ago.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Microsoft Flight Simulator: A History youtube.com A passion for flight Bruce Artwick studied electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, yet he found time to pursue a dream many teenagers think about but few fulfill: He learned to fly. 1988’s Flight Simulator 3.0 was the last version credited to subLogic.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. This article was first published as “Of Mice and menus: designing the user-friendly interface.”

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