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NC State Researchers Developing Ozonolysis Pretreatment for Energy Grass Feedstocks

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Researchers at North Carolina State University are developing an ozone-based pre-treatment technique (ozonolysis) to release sugars from the energy grass miscanthus for production into renewable fuels or chemicals with minimal generation of chemical waste streams and degradation of the carbohydrate components.

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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“Energy is something we take for granted, because we just plug things into the wall, and it feels as inevitable as air. The group fabricated their device using CFRP, sodium potassium niobate (KNN) nanoparticles, and epoxy resin. For one project, “we asked medical doctors, ‘How much data do you need?’ They said, ‘We don’t know.

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