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DECEMBER 1, 2020

The cathode and electrolyte chemistries elucidated here propel the development of magnesium batteries and would accelerate the adoption of this low-cost and safe battery technology. His group recently published a review article in Nature Energy on the roadmap to better multivalent batteries. —Dong et al.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Dr. Arumugam “Ram” Manthiram, Professor, University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Manthiram is Director of the Texas Materials Institute and the Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Program. He has authored more than 850 journal articles. He is a globally recognized leader in cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

To determine what was happening, and the best way to make it happen, the Sandia team used computer simulations generated by coauthor Na Sai from the University of Texas at Austin that suggested which molecular changes to seek. —co-author Jeff Brinker, Sandia Fellow and University of New Mexico professor.

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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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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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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. Nature Communications 4, Article number: 1943 doi: 10.1038/ncomms2941. Schematic illustration of 3D porous SiNP/conductive polymer hydrogel composite electrodes. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 27, 2017

Researchers at George Washington University led by Dr. Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes).

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