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APRIL 21, 2021

Sionic’s silicon-anode battery cell designs incorporate the company’s complete technology innovations that deliver up to 50% greater energy density, 30% lower cost, and increased safety, and can be integrated into cylindrical, pouch, or prismatic cell formats in existing cell production supply chains and infrastructure. —Ed Williams.

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AUGUST 4, 2014

South Africa-based Anglo American Platinum , the world’s leading primary producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), has invested in the first close of the Series A financing round of Hydrogenious Technologies, a company developing liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) hydrogen storage technology.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

Auburn University researchers are leading a $2-million US Department of Energy Co-Optima project ( earlier post ) that will evaluate renewable butyl acetate (BA) as a bio-based fuel additive that can be blended with diesel fuel to reduce soot and greenhouse gas emissions and yield cleaner engine operation in cold-weather conditions.

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JULY 10, 2022

The UK government is awarding £54 million to 15 projects to develop technologies that remove carbon emissions from the atmosphere. The funding comes under Phase 2 of the Direct Air Capture and Greenhouse Gas Removal technologies competition. Biochar - This is a form of charcoal produced when organic matter is burned without oxygen.

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AUGUST 19, 2020

This follows an earlier announcement in April 2019 between both parties regarding the commercialization of renewable isobutanol, SAF and renewable premium gasoline. According to Apte Research Group, University of California, Berkley, particle air pollution in South Asia ranks among the most severe in the world.

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JUNE 23, 2016

The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia, have collaborated on bioenergy and microbial biotechnology in the past. The agreement will also involve collaborative research and academic exchange including staff and students.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

GAMOW teams will work to close multiple fusion-specific technological gaps that will be needed to connect a net-energy-gain “fusion core," once it is ready, to a deployable, commercially attractive fusion system. University of California, San Diego. Currently, scalable tritium extraction and pumping technologies do not exist.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) (DE-FOA-0001001) to gain public input on its efforts to facilitate the commercialization of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. National Laboratory Technology Transfer.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

E) will award $39 million in funding to 16 projects across 12 states to develop market-ready technologies that will increase domestic supplies of critical elements required for the clean energy transition. Specifically, the program investigates the potential CO 2 -reactive ores to unlock net-zero or net-negative emission technologies.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Many metals and their compounds must be made into thin films before they can be used in technological products like electronics, displays, fuel cells, or catalytic applications. The research is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). —William Nunn, first author.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Renewable fuels and chemicals company Virent has established a strategic consortium with Tesoro, Toray, Johnson Matthey and The Coca-Cola Company focused on completing the development and scale up of Virent’s BioForming technology to produce low carbon bio-based fuels and bio-paraxylene (a key raw material for the production of 100% bio-polyester).

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MAY 26, 2022

Several organizations, encompassing companies, research labs, and academia, have formed the Hydrogen Opposed Piston Engine Working Group. —James Turner, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). ID-Technologies, Fribourg, Switzerland.

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JUNE 13, 2021

Ltd (KMS) to pursue strategic opportunities for the advancement of low-cost, scalable silicon anodes through leveraging the developments in silicon technologies from both parties. The agreement would help accelerate NEO’s commercialization plans of its silicon anode technology. Korea Metal Silicon Co. Korea Metal Silicon Co.

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MARCH 17, 2021

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies (FST) has expanded its material testing capabilities to include performance and compatibility evaluations of the rubber, elastomers and thermoplastics used to seal and safely maintain lithium-ion batteries. Joseph Walker, Director Research & Development for Freudenberg Sealing Technologies in the Americas.

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JULY 18, 2020

Scientists from ExxonMobil, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Imperial College of London have published in the journal Science joint research on potential breakthroughs in a new membrane technology that could reduce emissions and energy intensity associated with refining crude oil. —Thompson et al. Imperial College London.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

These projects will develop technologies that bridge the data gap in the biofuel supply chain by quantifying feedstock-related GHG emissions and soil carbon dynamics at the field-level. These technologies will allow for improved efficiency in feedstock production and enable new ag-sector carbon removal and management opportunities.

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JUNE 28, 2021

The EU-funded research project HyFlexFuel recently successfully produced biocrudes via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) from a variety of biomasses, including sewage sludge, food waste, manure, wheat straw, corn stover, pine sawdust, miscanthus and microalgae in a pilot-scale continuous HTL plant at Aarhus University (Denmark).

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

Moller - Maersk, has invested in Vertoro , a Dutch start-up focused on developing liquid lignin technology which can be used as a marine fuel. Vertoro is a spin-off from a public-private partnership between Brightlands Chemelot Campus, DSM, Chemelot InSciTe, University of Maastricht (UM) and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).

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AUGUST 20, 2021

A consortium of seven UK-based organizations has signed a memorandum of understanding to combine ambitions to develop world-leading prototype solid-state battery technology, targeting automotive applications. Johnson Matthey – a global leader in sustainable technologies and the UK’s leading battery materials business.

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APRIL 6, 2023

Researchers at the University of Wyoming, for example, developed a process to convert coal powder to graphite using a microwave oven, while researchers at The George Washington University have proposed another method to convert coal to battery-grade graphite.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Lintec of America has licensed novel fabrication methods for carbon nanotube (CNT) macrostructures, including sheets, yarns and ribbons, developed at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) by Dr. Ray Baughman, the Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry, and his colleagues at the University’s Alan G.

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DECEMBER 7, 2015

and Tohoku University’s Advanced Institute for Material Research (AIMR) have demonstrated technology reducing the internal resistance of all-solid-state lithium ion batteries (Li-ion battery) through the use of LiBH 4 -based complex hydrides as novel solid electrolytes. Hitachi, Ltd. Source: Hitachi. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 28, 2018

Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) is a major component of fine particulate matter—which causes adverse health effects—even in urban environments; vehicles may be a dominant source of SOA in urban areas, although there is still an ongoing debate over SOA formation from on-road sources.

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DECEMBER 9, 2014

This appointment follows the UK Chancellor’s recent autumn statement announcement to make the UK a world center for the testing and development of this new technology. Williams will bring its simulator and artificial intelligence technology to the project.

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MARCH 12, 2021

European battery-maker Northvolt has acquired Cuberg , a US-based battery technology company delivering high-performance lithium-metal cells produced on existing lithium-ion manufacturing lines for electromobility solutions. Department of Energy, and the TomKat Center at Stanford.

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JUNE 29, 2020

Anion exchange membrane (AEM) electrolysis can potentially combine the beneficial features of the PEM and alkaline electrolyzer technologies—i.e. Therefore, new material breakthroughs and design concepts are needed before AEM technology can challenge PEM electrolyzers.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the award of approximately $72 million in federal funding to support the development and advancement of carbon capture technologies under two funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). It will also help develop carbon reduction technologies for use in the steel sector.

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JUNE 4, 2012

The team of the University of Maryland is the winner of the 2012 Hydrogen Student Design Contest, announced on Sunday by the US Department of Energy at the Young Scientist Symposium of the World Hydrogen Energy Conference 2012 in Toronto, Canada. At the awards ceremony, the theme for the next Contest was announced as well.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

If scientists figure out how the process works, they will be better able to selectively promote or inhibit certain pathways, which will lead to the development of a commercially viable catalyst for this technology. —lead author Irina Chernyshova.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Johnson Matthey (JM), Echion Technologies , (Echion), Britishvolt (BV) and University College London (UCL) are grant recipients in the latest round (Round 4) of the Faraday Battery Challenge in the UK. Echion is a high-growth company spun-out of Cambridge University in 2017 to commercialize niobium oxide-based materials for anodes.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Source: SCF Technologies. Vattenfall and Aalborg University are partnering with Danish startup SCF Technologies in a two-year project to design a demonstration plant based on SCF’s CatLiq process—an application of the firm’s supercritical fluid technology in the catalytic production of bio-oil from organic waste.

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APRIL 22, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will issue a spring 2020 solicitation for high performance computing projects that improve manufacturing processes, address products’ lifecycle energy consumption, and increase the efficiency of energy conversion and storage technologies. All DOE National Laboratories are eligible to participate.

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AUGUST 29, 2016

NOHMs Technologies Inc. NOHMs), a Cornell University spin-out founded in 2010, raised $5 million in Series B venture capital financing to commercialize its non-flammable electric vehicle (EV) battery electrolyte technology. This electrolyte is a drop-in replacement for commercial ionic liquids used in PHEV and EV cells.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

MAHLE Powertrain is leading a project to develop sustainable propulsion solutions to retrofit to high-performance marine vessels where battery and other electrified technologies may not prove practical. The project will aim to deliver retrofit solutions at scale across commercial, professional, and governmental fleets.

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JUNE 25, 2012

VG Energy , a majority-owned subsidiary of Viral Genetics, is launching its first commercial product: LipidMax, a lipid enhancement compound based on VG’s Metabolic Disruption Technology (MDT) for use in the production of oils from algae and other plants or plant-like organisms. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) are developing a small-scale demonstration reactor that will process 40 tons of wood waste per year from the university into replacements for diesel fuel and gasoline. This will be offered at the university pump in a 10:90 mixture with gasoline. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 25, 2020

Scientists from ExxonMobil, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new material that could capture more than 90% of CO 2 emitted from industrial sources using low-temperature steam, requiring less energy for the overall carbon capture process. UC Berkeley graphic by Eugene Kim).

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