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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

A team of researchers from the US NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers based at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has demonstrated the use of a dual cellular–heterogeneous catalytic strategy to produce olefins from glucose. Wang et al. Koleski, E.J.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

Polymorphism may occur in metals, alloys, ceramics, minerals, polymers, and pharmaceutical substances. Insight into the nucleation process may yield a solution. Researchers at TU Delft have shed new light on the process of nucleation in the polymorphic transformation of solid materials—specifically, steel.

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MAY 8, 2021

Using this insight, we can then assess whether the technology pays off for our customers and at the same time helps to protect the environment. Sono Solar Technology offers a lightweight, robust and cost-effective solar solution that can adapt to a range of complex geometries due to its polymer-based design.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington have been the first to demonstrate that polyaniline (PANI), a member of the organic conducting polymer family, is a promising photocathode material for the conversion of carbon dioxide into alcohol fuels without the need for a co-catalyst.

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MAY 6, 2011

The newly completed sequence can provide biofuels researchers with information that could influence the development of candidate biofuel feedstock plants and offer botanists important insights into plant evolution. “When you burn coal, you’re burning Selaginella’s ancestors.” ” —Jody Banks. —Jody Banks.

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OCTOBER 18, 2020

The machine uses thermal cracking, which breaks down the long chains of polymers into shorter chains through the use of heat in the absence of oxygen. Unilever, joining an already well-established collaboration between Recycling Technologies and Neste, will bring insight on design for recycling for packaging.

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MAY 31, 2023

We report a nanofibrous cobalt spinel catalyst codoped with lanthanum (La) and manganese (Mn) prepared from a zeolitic imidazolate framework embedded in electrospun polymer fiber. In addition, computational modeling at Berkeley Lab revealed important insights into the catalyst’s durability under reaction conditions.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Experimental insight is hindered by a number of technical difficulties including: the substantial functionality (oxygen-rich) of biomass starting materials, intermediates and products; the temperature sensitivity of many products; the short lifetime (less than 0.1 The same biofuel reactions with ‘mini-cellulose’ can be done in a month.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2015

The partnership aims at providing Williams with direct and high level insights into the latest additive manufacturing (AM) technologies offered by EOS to complement their existing manufacturing processes, and to support their own AM development project. Williams already owns two polymer EOS systems.

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APRIL 22, 2018

This study provides insights into high-value products that can be made by, or in partnership with Alberta’s oil sands industry. Only a small fraction of downstream bitumen derivate is used for Polymer production. The study focuses on four promising areas: Carbon fibers and products incorporating carbon fibers.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

The team’s paper, which details velocities of lithium ions moving through a polymer electrolyte, was published in the RSC journal Energy and Environmental Science. For this experiment the research team used a solid polymer electrolyte, instead of the liquid ones in wide use for lithium ion batteries. —Michael Toney.

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JULY 13, 2020

—Professor Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt from the Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry (ITCP). In the next step, these insights can be used to protect the catalyst specifically against these deactivation mechanisms.

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DECEMBER 31, 2014

Schematic illustration of a Li-O 2 cell employing a mesoporous catalytic polymer membrane. In this work, we introduce a new architecture of an oxygen electrode employing a functional catalytic polymer-based membrane to enhance the efficiency of interfacial reactions in Li-O 2 batteries. Credit: ACS, RYu et al. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

Novel material design concepts that can provide additional insight and present an opportunity to overcome the scaling limit of the ORR reaction. Synthesis of new solid electrolytes including both polymer and inorganic. Novel analytical methods that enable the study of the SEI on metal anodes.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 6, 2024

Download ETAuto App Get Realtime updates Save your favourite articles Scan to download App The post ACMA awards 59 companies for excellence in production, innovation, localisation, exports – ET Auto appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

A team from General Motors Global Research & Development Center in Michigan has developed a new double-layered core–shell structure of polymer-coated carbon–sulfur to confine better the sulfur/polysulfides in the electrode of lithium–sulfur (Li/S) batteries and to improve the batteries’ cycling stability and Columbic efficiency.

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MARCH 12, 2019

These insights into how the beetle and its distinct microbiome have co-evolved provide a roadmap for the production of affordable, nature-derived fuels and bioproducts. A paper on the study is published in the journal Nature Microbiology.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

As part of the IBM Research Frontiers Institute, scientists are combining expertise in informatics and polymers, and other materials, to prototype systems to extract, organize, analyze, and predict insights from materials datasets.

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MARCH 14, 2011

Schematic of hydrogen storage composite material: high-capacity Mg NCs are encapsulated by a selectively gas-permeable polymer. Some materials under development such as metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), nanoporous polymers, and other carbon-based materials, physisorb only a small amount of hydrogen at room temperature. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 27, 2016

However, since 3D printing requires the use of polymers of certain properties, it is important to understand the long-term mechanical stability of such printed materials before they can be commercialized. The material is built up layer-by-layer, with each layer consisting of equally-spaced parallel cylinders of the same uniform diameter.

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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. Such insights may help redesign lignin within its cross-linked complex biological matrix to meet subsequent process and end product goals. Ragauskas et al.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

In parallel with this, the team used theoretical lattice calculations to reveal the polymer structure, and to characterize its dynamic behaviour. The information concerning the positioning of the lithium between the cages provides important insight into the origin of the high mobility of these ions. In fact, hybrid modes—i.e.,

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 15, 2024

France’s Blue Solutions is already selling solid state batteries for buses with a charging time of four hours, but is developing a new product for cars that uses a polymer electrolyte and ultra-thin lithium metal anode, aiming to have a charging time of less than 20 minutes and enabling a range increase of about 30% to nearly 1,000 km.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells require precise temperature and moisture controls to be at their best. The performance of polymer-electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) and other multiphase flow technologies is significantly dependent on liquid-water management.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

These experiences have given us valuable insight into how our yeast will perform at commercial scale, and the fact that our yeast performance translated from lab to industrial scale is a strong testament to our technology and the capability of our scientists and engineers. These runs significantly de-risk our operations at industrial scale.

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AUGUST 31, 2016

Sepion’s polymer membrane technology provides a counterpoint, yielding long-lasting lithium-sulfur cells. Advancing to 10 Ah battery prototypes, Sepion faces challenges in membrane manufacturing related to polymer processing and the molecular basis for membrane performance and durability.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 31, 2021

Polymer-based materials can become electrochemically unstable on repeated use. Unlike earlier carbon-based bioelectronic devices that used polymers as a binding material, this one is monolithic, or binder-free. "If Traditional materials like platinum, iridium oxide or titanium nitride tend to be bulky.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

In a new insight entitled “Frost & Sullivan: Green Materials in the Automotive Industry”, Global Program Manager for Transportation Chemicals Robert Outram notes that: Plastics and composites need to be greener, more recyclable and sustainably sourced in order to meet future ELV targets and escape fiscal penalties.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

Top catalyst candidates are manganese complexes embedded in a Nafion matrix, a teflon-like polymer. Aziz (2014) “Electronic structural insights into efficient MnO x catalysts” J. Leone Spiccia’s lab developed and provided the samples. The manganese complexes produce nanoparticles of manganese oxides within the Nafion matrix.

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MARCH 30, 2014

Assistant professor Niels Holten-Andersen of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and assistant professor Jeremiah Johnson of the Department of Chemistry are working to combine metallosupramolecular assembly with polymer networks to create a new class of hybrid metal-organic materials.

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OCTOBER 8, 2011

Tracking the surface evolution of the material provides insight into how the structure evolves over time. They will now work to optimize the material with different catalysts and polymer protective coatings to improve performance and increase the number of cycles that the material can go through without degradation. Resources.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

In order to reduce the cost of next-generation polymer electrolyte fuel cells for vehicles, researchers have been developing alternatives to the prohibitively expensive platinum and platinum-group metal (PGM) catalysts currently used in fuel cell electrodes. —Piotr Zelenay, leader of the project at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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JULY 1, 2015

By conducting the research in Singapore, a densely-populated, urban city state, it will enable researchers in the joint lab to gain insights on how electric vehicles can be made more relevant for global megacities.

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APRIL 21, 2011

The prohibitive cost of platinum for catalyzing the ORR has hampered the widespread use of polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Micrographic images of portions of the catalyst by researcher More have provided some insight into how it functions, but further work must be done to confirm theories by the research team. Source: Wu et al.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

While these studies have provided valuable mechanistic insights, several fundamental issues … generally restrict industrial implementation of such methods. Carbon-silicon bonds are found in many products, such as polymers, agricultural chemicals, and semiconductors.

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APRIL 6, 2009

Polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) cells, widely studied for such mobile applications, generally use carbon-supported platinum (Pt/C) catalysts at the electrodes. Little is known about the molecular processes that might lead to Fe-N bond breaking, and our insight into the stability of the active sites is based only on trial and error.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

This work aims to explore the effectiveness of using newly synthesized 2D graphyne-based membranes (namely graphyne, graphdiyne, and graphtriyne) for electrode protection in a solid polymer electrolyte battery through first-principle calculations, nudged elastic band method, and classical molecular dynamics simulation. 2023.233482

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