Green Car Congress
AUGUST 5, 2022
Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine, researchers from UC Berkeley, Texas A&M and Stanford have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks.
Green Car Congress
JULY 31, 2014
Another benefit is that the really high performing cation-based pseudocapacitors use metals that are really expensive and not abundant on earth, while the materials used in this anion-based one uses cheap metals that are abundant in earth’s crust. —Tyler Mefford, graduate student and lead author.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 7, 2015
The idea was to understand the changes in the molecular structure of molybdenum disulfide, so that it can be a better catalyst for hydrogen production: closer to platinum in efficiency, but earth-abundant and cheap. Molly is dirt cheap and abundant. —co-author Jeff Brinker, Sandia Fellow and University of New Mexico professor.
Green Car Congress
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. —Kreder et al. Recent efforts to improve lithium-ion battery electrodes have focused on building new nanomaterials atom by atom.
Cars That Think
MARCH 17, 2023
Alexander Gabay, a researcher at the University of Delaware, states flatly: “I am skeptical that any non-rare-earth permanent magnet could be used in a synchronous traction motor in the near future.” Ferrite magnets, based on a form of iron oxide, are cheap and account for nearly 30 percent of the permanent-magnet market by sales.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have received about $2.5 Bard and Mullins are affiliated with the Center for Electrochemistry at the university. However, efficient, cheap and abundant materials have yet to be discovered to make solar water splitting a viable process. Charles Mullins.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 10, 2022
In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. The thumb drive was all that—and more.
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