Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 6, 2011
BASF SE has established a research initiative called Joint Research Network on Advanced Materials and Systems (JONAS) in collaboration with the universities of Strasbourg, France; Freiburg, Germany, and ETH Zurich, Switzerland. That is precisely what we hope to achieve through close cooperation with these top universities.
Cars That Think
APRIL 29, 2023
It was very curiosity-driven,” says Isak Engquist, a professor at Linköping University who led the effort. “We Isak Engquist, Linköping University Even though the wooden transistor still awaits its killer app, the idea to build wood-based electronics is not as crazy as it sounds. We thought: ‘Can we do it?
Green Car Congress
MARCH 8, 2013
BASF SE has launched the “North American Center for Research on Advanced Materials—a research collaboration with Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst. About 20 new post-doctoral positions will be created at the three universities.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 4, 2014
Researchers from Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and their colleagues report successfully engineering poplar trees to produce lignin that degrades more easily, thereby lowering the effort and cost to convert wood to biofuel. Source: GLBRC. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 23, 2009
South Korean scientists from KAIST University and LG Chem have engineered a strain of E. The polyesters and other polymers we use everyday are mostly derived from fossil oils made through the refinery or chemical process. —Professor Sang Yup Lee , KAIST University. This means that a developed E. —Professor Lee.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 10, 2012
Researchers at Xi’an Jiaotong University in China have developed a new direct borohydride fuel cell (DBFC) that shows a peak power density of 663 mW·cm -2 at 65 °C (149 °F)—an increase in power density by a factor of 1.7 A direct borohydride fuel cell with a polymer fiber membrane and non-noble metal catalysts.
Green Car Congress
MAY 19, 2014
The aromatic polymer lignin is found in most terrestrial plants in the approximate range of 15 to 40% dry weight and provides the plants with their structural integrity. Ragauskas et al. courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.] Click to enlarge. —Arthur Ragauskas. —Ragauskas et al. Ragauskas, et al.,
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