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DOE awards $60M to 24 R&D projects to accelerate advancements in zero-emissions vehicles

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $60 million to 24 research and development projects aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions from passenger cars and light- and heavy-duty trucks. (DE-FOA-0002420) Novel Organosulfur-Based Electrolytes for Safe Operation of High Voltage Lithium-ion Batteries Over a Wide Operating Temperature.

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DOE announces $60M to accelerate advanced vehicle technologies research

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Lithium-sulfur and lithium-air battery cell development. High-power-density traction inverters for use in light-, medium-, or heavy-duty vehicle applications. Advanced Combustion Engines and Fuels (Up to $5 million). Transportation and Energy Analysis (Up to $1.2

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U Waterloo team shows four-electron conversion for Li-O2 batteries for high energy density; inorganic molten salt electrolyte, high temperature

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Chemists from the University of Waterloo have successfully resolved two of the most challenging issues surrounding lithium-oxygen batteries, and in the process created a working battery with near 100% coulombic efficiency. Thermodynamics and configuration of the Li-O 2 cell. (A)

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DOE awards $54M to 13 projects for transformational manufacturing technologies and materials; top two awards go to carbon fiber materials and electrodes for next-gen batteries

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The top two awards, one of $9 million to a project led by Dow Chemical, and one of $8.999 million to a project led by PolyPlus, will fund projects tackling, respectively, the manufacturing of low-cost carbon fibers and the manufacturing of electrodes for ultra-high-energy-density lithium-sulfur, lithium-seawater and lithium-air batteries.

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3 winners of DOE’s “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator” Challenge: hydrogen-assisted lean-burn engines, graphene for Li-air and -sulfur batteries, and titanium process

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Vorbeck Materials , a startup company based in Jessup, Maryland, is using a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)-developed method for developing graphene for better lithium air and lithium sulfur batteries.

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BMW researchers and colleagues in project ABILE develop optimized ionic-liquid-based electrolyte for efficient Li-air batteries

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The study was financially supported by BMW within the project ABILE (Air Batteries with Ionic Liquid Electrolytes). XRD patterns clearly showed that the formed lithium peroxide is amorphous when PYR14TFSI-LiTFSI is utilized as electrolyte while it is crystalline when TEGDME-LiCF 3 SO 3 is used. Sun from Hanyang University; B.

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Big Science tools for clean transportation: neutron scattering at ORNL

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research facilities for scientists from universities, industry, and other laboratories, as well as to ORNL researchers: Building Technologies Research and Integration Center (BTRIC). Neutrons, on the other hand, can obtain an appreciable scattering signal from light elements. ORNL operates nine user facilities—i.e., C 116, 8401?8408