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AUGUST 25, 2017

A team from the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois, with colleagues from the University of Birmingham and Aarhus University, have developed a nanosized bio-Pd/C catalyst for upgrading algal bio-oil. For the palladium to do its job, the bio-oil needs to flow past it during processing. —B.K.

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MARCH 2, 2018

An international research team has developed a new single-atom electrocatalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO). Scientists have long sought a way to convert CO 2 to CO, but traditional electrocatalysts cannot effectively initiate the reaction. Single atoms of nickel, however, produce a different result.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

Scientists of Ural Federal University and the Institute of Metallurgy of the Ural Branch of RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences) have developed and successfully tested the technology of joint non-waste processing of electric furnace and ladle slag to obtain pig iron and Portland cement clinker. Sheshukov, O.Y., Egiazar’yan, D.K. Lobanov, D.A.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Researchers at the University of California, Davis have developed a process for the production of branched C 7 –C 10 hydrocarbons in the gasoline volatility range from biomass-derived levulinic acid with good yield, operating under relatively mild conditions, with short reaction times. Source: Mascal et al. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 11, 2014

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a nanocrystalline copper material that produces multi-carbon oxygenates (ethanol, acetate and n-propanol) with up to 57% Faraday efficiency at modest potentials (–0.25?volts We have a solution to this problem that’s made of copper, which is cheap and abundant. volts to –0.5?volts

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DECEMBER 31, 2012

A team at Rice University has engineered E. coli bacteria to convert glucose into succinic acid in a way that would be competitive with petroleum-based production. coli bacteria to produce succinate (an ester of succinic acid) from soybean mash. A paper describing their work was published in the journal Bioresource Technology.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new family of anode materials that can double the charge capacity of lithium-ion battery anodes. Eutectic alloys are fusible: upon cooling they convert from liquids to intimately mixed solids. Earlier post.). —Karl Kreder.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Engineers at Iowa State University have developed a hybrid process that combines bio- and electrocatalysis to convert glucose into bio-based unsaturated nylon-6,6—which has the advantage of an extra double bond in its backbone that can be used to tailor the polymer’s properties. Resources. Their study is published in the 12 Feb.

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MARCH 11, 2023

Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. AC Propulsion cofounder Wally Rippel converted a Volkswagen microbus into an electric vehicle while he was still a student at Caltech.

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OCTOBER 31, 2013

Now, aluminum is increasingly important in electronics, particularly as a “green” component that’s cheap, widely available and environmentally benign. The research was made possible, in part, by collaboration between chemists at OSU and the University of Oregon, through the Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry. Wills, Lev N.

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MAY 26, 2015

Global Bioenergies, founded in 2008, has developed a synthetic isobutene pathway that, when implanted in a micro-organism, enables the organism to convert sugars (e.g., The process to convert isobutene to isooctane is well-established. So here our isobutene would allow us to integrate this very cheap fossil component into the fuel.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

Researchers from the University of Liverpool (UK), with colleagues from Dalian University of Technology (China) and the University of Hull (UK), have developed a new process for the direct, one-step activation of carbon dioxide and methane (dry reforming of methane) into higher value liquid fuels and chemicals (e.g.,

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A team of researchers from the University of Houston and the California Institute of Technology has developed an active and durable earth-abundant transition metal dichalcogenide-based hybrid catalyst for water-splitting that exhibits high hydrogen evolution activity approaching the state-of-the-art platinum catalysts. —Zhou 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).

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OCTOBER 3, 2014

Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a novel strategy to improve the efficiency and performance of non-aqueous lithium-oxygen (Li-air) batteries. During the charging process, the reduced form of the redox shuttle, M red , is first converted to M ox on the oxygen electrode, which in turn oxidizes the Li 2 O 2.

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JUNE 1, 2015

Stanford University scientists have created a new ultrahigh surface area three-dimensional porous graphitic carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies. Our designer carbon is simple to make, relatively cheap and meets all of the critical requirements for high-performance electrodes.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. Now, Frontex is refocusing its resources from shipboard patrols to aerial and remote sensing, according to its. Dan Fisher of the University of Glasgow, who has published on SIVE.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), with colleagues from Oregon State University, have developed PNNL a durable, inexpensive molybdenum-phosphide catalyst that efficiently converts wastewater and seawater into hydrogen. If you can produce hydrogen from seawater, the resource pool is pretty much unlimited.

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AUGUST 25, 2012

Thus, economically viable biodiesel conversion technology must be developed and implemented.Although these catalysts [for transesterification] are relatively cheap, they are very sensitive to FFAs and the water content in oils, since the side reactions of saponification and hydrolysis, respectively, can occur. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 4, 2015

The new C5 FUEL yeast delivers fermentation and ethanol yields that set a new standard for conversion of biomass sugars from pretreated corn stover, converting up to 97% of the plant sugars into fuel, the researchers said. The results were presented at the 31 st International Fuel Ethanol Workshop this week in Minneapolis.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

If taken from such sources, hydrogen is a fossil fuel, and is not a renewable resource. Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term. You know because 95% of hydrogen comes from natural gas but even if it came from water, the water utilisation the resource utilisation is just insane.

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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 researchers believe this new type of photoelectrode is not only cheap to produce, but can also be recreated on a larger scale for mass and worldwide use. —Pawar and Tahir.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

A team led by a researcher at the University of California, Riverside has adapted the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system for use in a yeast strain that can produce useful lipids and polymers. Genome engineering of Yarrowia lipolytica has created strains that convert sugars to lipid that make up >90% of their dry cell weight. Until now, Y.

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

Two chemists at Brown University have streamlined the conversion of waste vegetable oil (WVO) into biodiesel, eliminating the need for corrosive chemicals to perform the reactions. The reaction is complete when all of the molecules have been converted into smaller components known as fatty acid esters.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

However, to provide constant and stable power on demand, it is necessary to convert sunlight into an energy storage medium. The authors acknowledge funding from the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation and the University of California, Berkeley. Type II band alignment allows electron transfer from BiVO 4 to TiO 2.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

A team from Georgia Tech, with colleagues at the university of Kansas, has designed a high-performance solid-oxide fuel cell that operates directly on nearly dry (only ~3.5 Our cell could make for a straightforward, robust overall system that uses cheap stainless steel to make interconnectors. —Ben deGlee, co-author.

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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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AUGUST 16, 2009

Robert Dorner and his colleagues are looking at converting CO 2 and hydrogen (both won from sea-water) over catalysts, using the CO 2 as a building block to form synthetic fuel. This catalyst converts the feed gas predominantly to methane under all conditions (ca. Robert Dorner.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have demonstrated a new solar process for the one-step, gas-phase conversion of CO 2 and H 2 O to C 5+ liquid hydrocarbons and O 2 by operating the photocatalytic reaction at elevated temperatures and pressures. The process uses cheap and earth-abundant catalytic materials.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

SOURCE: GARTNER Fortunately, we have access to an information storage technology that is cheap, readily available, and stable at room temperature for millennia: DNA , the material of genes. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. In a few years your hard drive may be full of such squishy stuff.

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AUGUST 8, 2010

Researchers at the Isfahan University of Technology (Iran), have demonstrated the use of a dilute acid hydrolysis process to convert rice straw—a cheap, abundant and mainly unused ag waste—to 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and furfural. Both furans are components for production of different chemicals and fuels. 2010.07.032.

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JULY 5, 2011

Researchers at Stanford University, led by Dr. Yi Cui, have developed a method for pre-lithiating a silicon nanowire (SiNW) anode for use in a Li-ion battery. The Stanford team is proposing a facile method for prelithiating a Si nanowire (SiNW) anode by a self-discharge mechanism using cheap Li metal foil as the Li source.

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APRIL 29, 2022

Quantum technology relies on quantum effects that can arise because the universe can become a fuzzy place at its very smallest levels. MIT The nano-diamonds and the other materials used in the test are cheap. Cerca Magnetics wearable MEG helmets can, the company says, safely be worn by even an active child.

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APRIL 9, 2009

free) pistons converting their linear motion to rotary via a sinus disc. Gert Reinhardt was trained as a Mathematician at Dortmund University. Add in a few kWh of lead-acid batteries and you have a cheap and efficient advanced powertrain. ”. About the Inventor. He worked for the Korf Steel company in Saudi Arabia as head of IT.

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APRIL 19, 2023

Electrifying a vehicle fleet is a complex undertaking that requires specialized skills and resources that most companies don’t have. We took all that information and qualified over 14,500 prospects who were ready to convert to electric We started acquiring vehicles about four years ago. Do you run 150 miles, 200 miles or less?

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

The discovery also improves on current recycling methods that result in cheap, low-quality plastic products. Northwestern University, Argonne National Laboratory and Ames Laboratory led the multi-institutional team. The open-access study was published in the journal ACS Central Science. —Massimiliano Delferro. Kennedy, Ryan A.

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

Potential applications include tackling fake profiles on social media, distributing a global universal basic income (UBI), and empowering new forms of digital democracy. The founders envisaged Worldcoin as a global distribution network for universal basic income. It’s really hard to revoke and reissue your iris.” –. Jon Callas.

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