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U of Illinois researchers develop new capabilities for genome-wide engineering of yeast

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The goal of the work was really to develop a genome-scale engineering tool for yeast … traditional metabolic engineering focused on just a few genes and the few existing genome-scale engineering tools are only applicable to bacteria, not eukaryotic organisms like yeast. Miller Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

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Univ of Illinois team mixed metals with perchloric acid to create stable, efficient catalyst for water splitting

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Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have mixed metal compounds with perchloric acid to create a stable, efficient electrocatalytic material for the oxygen evolution reaction in acidic media. —Hong Yang, a co-author and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Illinois.

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Researchers develop room-temp 1,000+ cycle rechargeable solid-state lithium-air battery

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Researchers from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of Illinois at Chicago have developed a room-temperature solid-state lithium-air battery that is rechargeable for 1,000 cycles with a low polarization gap and can operate at high rates.

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DOE awards $10.6M to ROGUE to engineer energycane, Miscanthus to produce oil for biodiesel, biojet fuel

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded the University of Illinois a $10.6-million, ROGUE will engineer energycane, a bioenergy crop derived from sugarcane, and Miscanthus to produce the oil that is used to create biodiesel and biojet fuel. —ROGUE Director Stephen Long, an Ikenberry Endowed Chair at Illinois.

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Stanford engineers build first computer based on carbon nanotube technology; “imperfections-immune design”

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With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a team of Stanford University engineers has for the first time built a tiny computer with 178 transistors made from carbon nanotubes, a semiconductor material that may replace silicon in computer chips. This ‘imperfections-immune design’ (technique) makes this discovery truly exemplary.

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32.5M hours of supercomputer time to aid GM, Ford engine projects with Oak Ridge Lab

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The two projects are part of a larger multi-year DOE-funded project to develop and to apply innovative simulation strategies and tools to maximize benefits of predictive information from high performance computing (HPC) for internal combustion engines. The current design optimization process is very time- and labor-intensive.

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Ozinga Energy and Ingevity to field adsorbed natural gas bi-fuel pickup

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Under controlled depressurization, these molecules release and exit the storage system in response to the demand of the vehicle’s engine. Ozinga Energy has purchased an ANG-equipped Ford F-150 and installed a dedicated, low-pressure fueling appliance at its headquarters in Mokena, Illinois. The Ford F-150 is fitted with the 5.0L

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