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Metallic glass to improve performance of methanol fuel cells

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A group of researchers from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), Austria, Turkey, Switzerland, and the UK has developed a new metallic glass that is 85% more efficient in oxidizing methanol than its platinum-based analogs. Fuel cells based on methanol oxidation have potential for the motor and technical industries.

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Franklin’s Franklins Were Freakishly UnFakeable

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Those black arts have now yielded to the latest analytical instruments, as described in the Publications of the National Academy of Scientists by a group led by Khachatur Manukyan, a research associate professor at the Nuclear Science Laboratory of the University of Notre Dame.

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TU Graz researchers identify singlet oxygen as major cause of deleterious side reactions in Li-air batteries; suggested approach to counter

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Researchers led by a team from Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in Austria have shown that singlet oxygen ( 1 O 2 ) forms in the cathode of a Li–O 2 battery during discharge and from the onset charge, and that it is responsible for a major fraction of side products that cause fast ageing in the battery. —Mahne et al.

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Global WorldAutoSteel Project Presents Interim Results of FutureSteelVehicle (FSV) Phase 2 Project for Low GHG Body Structure for Electrified Vehicles

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Key to our Phase 2 evaluations of different structural options is a life cycle assessment of each system based on the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) GHG Materials Comparison Model. voestalpine Stahl GmbH – Austria. Tata Steel & Corus - India, UK, Netherlands. ThyssenKrupp Stahl AG - Germany.

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Fraunhofer ICT Working on New Redox Flow Batteries with Improved Capacity for EV Applications

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Noack presented Fraunhofer’s work on conventional vanadium redox flow batteries at the just-completed 216 th meeting of the Electrochemical Society in Vienna, Austria. This work is being carried out with colleagues from the University of Applied Sciences, Ostphalia, in Wolfenbüttel and Braunschweig. flexible design. fast response time.

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Visit to Cellestial E-Mobility : Electric Tractor startup

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The only other product that they have for comparison is the Sonalika tractor. My friend Mukesh informed me that Escorts has also got Austria based AVL to design and manufacture two electric prototypes for them. Of course, I am basing this comparison on my experience with cars and not other tractors.

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Study finds alcohol mix from biomass-derived syngas could be suitable replacement for ethanol in fuel blending

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Results of a study by a team from the US and Austria suggest that the primary alcohol mixture (“AlcoMix,” comprising 75% ethanol, 11% 1-propanol, 8% 1-butanol, and 6% 1-pentanol) produced from biomass-based syngas could be used as a substitute for ethanol as a primary fuel or as an antiknock blending component. Credit: ACS, Rapp et al.

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