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DOE Awards $1M to UT Dallas to Develop New Filtration Membranes for H2 and CO2 Separations

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Chemistry professors John Ferraris, Kenneth Balkus and Inga Musselman are creating a class of mixed-matrix membranes based on Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs)—crystalline compounds with specialized metal clusters that act as molecular sieves.

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The Michelin Group acquires minority stake in fuel cell company Symbio FCell

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This second round of funding gives us financial resources to further proceed with the industrialization of our solutions. —Fabio Ferrari, President of Symbio FCell.

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Poliotecnico di Torino team develops Common Feeding injection system as next-gen alternative to common rail

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Andrea Catania and Alessandro Ferrari at the Poliotecnico di Torino have developed a new fuel injection system (FIS) concept that does away with the rail from the high-pressure circuit of standard common rail (CR) injection systems, replacing it with a new hydraulic layout for high-pressure fuel injection. Ferrari, A. Catania, A.

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Tesla gets invitation from Italy minister: “ We open our doors wide for him”

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These include Indonesia, home to a huge portion of the world’s nickel resources, and, more recently, Italy. Italy is home to some of the world’s most iconic carmakers, such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Maserati. It was then unsurprising that Tesla is receiving invites to establish facilities in several countries.

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REPAIRING EVS IN NEW ZEALAND

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In this EV resource, the Drive Electric team explores some of the challenges and considerations involved in repairing and maintaining your electric car in NZ. In this article, we will explore what happens to old EV batteries in New Zealand and why it’s essential to dispose of them properly.

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ASU and Argonne researchers report progress on artificial leaf for solar conversion of water to H2 and O2

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Tejeda-Ferrari, Anne-Lucie Teillout, Manuel J. The department is a unit of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Key collaborators in this work are Oleg Poluektov and Tijana Rajh from Argonne National Laboratory. Megiatto Jr, Dalvin D. Méndez-Hernández, Marely E. Llansola-Portolés, Gerdenis Kodis, Oleg G. Groy, Devens Gust, Thomas A.

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ORNL study quantifies fuel economy costs of common driver practices and vehicle alterations

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Certainly, suitcases strapped to your car’s roof and trying to keep up with a speeding Ferrari will adversely affect your gas mileage. There is fuel economy information and advice available for vehicle maintenance and carrying loads that is quite good, but very little published data to back it up. and West, B.