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Unifrax introduces new nano-structured alumina catalyst support technology for a greener catalytic conversion option: Eco-lytic

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Housed within a vehicle’s catalytic converter, the Eco-lytic catalyst support fiber is designed to replace the existing catalytic converter or add to existing systems in order to enhance emission reduction, consume fewer precious metals and raw materials, and drive lower energy usage through vehicle weight reduction.

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Sandia researchers developing new family of metal-based ionic liquids for low-cost, efficient flow batteries

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Liquid electrolytes are pumped from storage tanks to flow-through electrodes where chemical energy is converted to electrical energy (discharge) or vice versa (charge). Rose, Chad L. The next step for the Sandia team is to find similar materials for flow battery anodes. Pratt III, Alyssa J. Staiger, David Ingersoll and Travis M.

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Ioxus Developing Higher Power Density Ultracapacitors

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Smaller Ioxus cells offer a power density of 22-28 kW/kg, and larger cells offer densities of 12-15 kW/kg, said Chad Hall, COO of Ioxus. Another application could provide “instant heat” to heat up the catalytic converters in vehicles. Energy densities for the cells are typically around 2-4 Wh/kg.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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We hear who you are The methods of automated speech recognition, which converts speech into text, can be adapted to perform the more sophisticated task of speaker recognition, which some practitioners refer to as voiceprinting. National Institute of Standards and Technology. Our voices have a lot of special characteristics.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Will we have a universal standard for charging? And do I understand that it's likely that that would set a de facto standard for all the non-Tesla world? John Voelcker There is already really a de facto standard. Market 10 years ago—we sold six figures of Leafs—those used a different standard called CHAdeMO.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Will we have a universal standard for charging? And do I understand that it's likely that that would set a de facto standard for all the non-Tesla world? John Voelcker There is already really a de facto standard. Market 10 years ago—we sold six figures of Leafs—those used a different standard called CHAdeMO.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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The upside of that approach is that there's a number of standards and ways of structuring that type of integration capability. And so you have a difficult time converting from all of that rich information in the documents themselves into something that's usable in the RDF. Our theme music is by Chad Crouch.