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Researchers propose reason for capacity loss in metal-oxide battery materials

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The fade in battery capacity is due to the formation and thickening of internal and surface passivation layers during charge and discharge cycles. Magnetite, among other conversion-type electrode materials (i.e., Because the conversion reaction is not fully reversible, these residual products accumulate.

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Pennsylvania Awards Axion Power $800,000 to Demonstrate PbC Batteries in Hybrids, PHEVs and EVs

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The Pennsylvania Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant (AFIG) program has awarded Axion Power International, Inc. The tankers will collect waste vegetable oil from 750 of Ettlineā€™s customers and deliver it to a processor for conversion to SVO. Energy Cooperative Association of Pennsylvania. Middletown Biofuels LLC.

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US DOE awards more than $175M to 40 projects for advanced vehicle research and development

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This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. Vehma International of America, Inc. The Pennsylvania State University. Miltec UV International, LLC. Zoltek Companies, Inc.

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Wireless Worries Overshadow Triumphs of RF Research

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The survey, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health , looks at the last 75 years of research into RF exposure assessment and dosimetry. Kenneth Foster, University of Pennsylvania If exposure assessment is a solved problem, what makes the jump to accurate dosimetry so difficult?

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US DOE Awards $37 Million for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Development

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Bayer Material Science LLC (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) will analyze an innovative, non-turbine approach to harnessing river currents. The goal is to develop an optimal generator for current energy conversion. The numerical model will greatly reduce deployment risk and add to design surety for floating ocean thermal conversion platforms.

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EPA Posts Peer Review of Renewable Fuel Standards Lifecycle Analysis

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ICF International, an independent third-party contractor, coordinated the peer reviews which were conducted on four areas of the lifecycle assessment that in particular charted new ground, according to EPA: Land use modeling (use of satellite data/land conversion GHG emission factors). GHG emissions from foreign crop production.

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ARPA-E announces $36M for high-temperature materials projects

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Durable and affordable higher-temperature heat exchangers could make energy conversion much more efficient, which in turn could reduce fuel consumption, system footprint, capital and operational cost, and emissions. Two different technologies will be used to smooth the heat exchanger componentsā€™ internal passages to minimize pressure drop.

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