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DOE awarding more than $50M to 15 projects to advance critical material innovations

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American Battery Metals Corporation; Field Demonstration of Selective Leaching, Targeted Purification, and Electro-Chemical Production of Battery Grade Lithium Hydroxide Precursor from Domestic Claystone Resources. Partners: American Lithium Corporation, DuPont Water Solutions. 525 Solutions, Inc.;

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Oregon State researchers demonstrate potassium-ion (K-ion) battery

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Researchers at Oregon State University have shown that potassium can work with graphite in a potassium-ion battery (KIB)—a discovery that could offer a challenge and sustainable alternative to the widely-used lithium-ion battery (LIB). Their findings are published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. —Xiulei Ji.

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Chevrolet purchasing and retiring up to $5M in carbon credits to help 11 colleges pay for efficiency projects

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For the last two years, Chevrolet has been the largest US corporate buyer of voluntary carbon credits by volume, according to nonprofit Forest Trends Ecosystem Marketplace. This helps ensure campuses can continue to receive funding from companies’ carbon purchases long after Chevrolet completes its carbon-reduction initiative next year.

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DOE to award more than $7M to four projects to advance hydrogen storage

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The US Department of Energy is awarding more than $7 million to fund four 3-year projects in California, Washington and Oregon to advance hydrogen storage technologies to be used in fuel-cell-electric vehicles. University of Oregon, up to $2.0 The selected organizations will provide close to $2 million in cost share.

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US DOE awards ~$5M to expand research on methane hydrates

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Selected projects are: Georgia Tech Research Corporation. The University of Texas at Austin. Geological Survey and the University of New Hampshire on the project. University of Washington. University of Oregon. DOE Investment: approximately $480,000 ?. DOE Investment: approximately $390,000. ?

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Sapa opens up automotive-focused extruded aluminum R&D center in Michigan

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Sapa Technology is Sapa’s corporate research and development hub. Sapa Technology Americas provides service to the business areas within the company, specifically on projects requested by Sapa's North America Technical Center (NATC), its plant network and corporate R&D.

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SAE World Congress technical track on advances in fuel cell vehicle applications

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The technical papers presented this year include: “Effect of road-induced vibration on gas-tightness of vehicular fuel cell stack” (2016-01-1186) Dong Hao, Yongping Hou, Tongji University; Jianping Shen, Shanghai Motor Vehicle Inspection Center; Liying Ma, Tongji University.

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