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APRIL 1, 2011

Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. The present sodium-sulfur battery operates above 300 °C. Example of a lithium-water rechargeable battery.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

A team of researchers from Northwestern University, UCLA and the University of St. Andrews (UK) have developed new robust nanoporous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) using a sugar—?-cyclodextrin Metal-organic frameworks (MOF) are well-ordered, lattice-like crystals. cyclodextrin (?-CD), Smaldone et al. Smaldone, Ross S.

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MARCH 1, 2017

lithium, sodium or potassium) on a copper–carbon cathode current collector at a voltage of more than 3.0 Finally, sodium is cheaper than lithium and widely available from the oceans, which makes a sodium battery preferable to a lithium battery, but insertion hosts for Na + have lower capacities than insertion hosts for Li +.

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MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. times above that of sodium-ion batteries with graphite electrodes.

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Plug In India

MARCH 31, 2023

Team PluginIndia The Cobalt mining FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) created by some paid media organizations and random YouTube channels is very easy to debunk. ​Our only plea to you is to listen to scientists and research papers rather than random YouTubers, Whatsapp university and paid anti EV Media.

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JULY 1, 2018

A study by a team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. We found an increased risk, even at low levels of air pollution currently considered safe by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Louis and the Veterans Affairs (VA) St. Louis Health Care System links PM 2.5

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MARCH 25, 2013

Scientists at the University of New South Wales (Australia) have developed a new bio-inspired method for carrying out chemical reduction—an industrial process used to produce fuels and chemicals. A report on their work is published in the journal Angewandte Chemie. —Stephen Colbran.

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APRIL 14, 2021

But a new study led by Sujay Kaushal of the University of Maryland warns that introducing salt into the environment—whether it's for de-icing roads, fertilizing farmland or other purposes—releases toxic chemical cocktails that create a serious and growing global threat to our freshwater supply and human health. Kaushal, S.S.,

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APRIL 6, 2015

Researchers at Lund University (Sweden) have developed an optimized two-phase enzymatic (lipase) system for the conversion of plant oils to biodiesel. An alternative approach is the use of immobilized lipase-catalyzed transesterification in the presence of an organic solvent. lanuginosus lipase in an aqueous/organic two-phase system.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2022

While there, he taught a course on radar at Northeastern University , in Boston. in engineering from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. During his tenure at the company, he oversaw the design and construction of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor project, a sodium-cooled nuclear facility in Tennessee.

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APRIL 3, 2016

Now, however, researchers from the Ocean University of China (Qingdao) and Yunnan Normal University (Kunming, China) have developed an all-weather solar cell that is triggered by both sunlight and raindrops by combining an electron-enriched graphene electrode with a dye-sensitized solar cell.

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

A spin-off from the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Yellow Diesel B.V. , Conventional biodiesel processes use homogeneous catalysts, such as sulphuric acid, sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxides or alkali methoxides, with the concomitant requirements of neutralization, washing, separation and recovery operations. Click to enlarge.

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

Team PluginIndia The Lithium mining FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) created by some paid media organizations and random YouTube channels is so bad, that many people read headlines of such articles and assume that Lithium mining is the worst thing in the world and is worse than extracting and refining 10,000 liters of oil used by an average ICE car.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Researchers from Tianjin University and the National Engineering Research Centre for Distillation Technology, Tianjin, China, report on the use of an ionic liquid (IL) with low viscosity to enhance bitumen recovery from oil sands by solvent extraction while reducing adverse impacts in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. However, Li et al.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

million), with the remaining funding provided by the UK organizations taking part in the work. High energy sodium-nickel battery cell for EV application (Acronym: NINACELL). Ionotec Ltd (lead), Dynamic-Ceramic Ltd, Birmingham University, University College London, Aloxsys Inc. GKN Eco-Trailer. EDS TurboClaw.

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JULY 4, 2010

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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JANUARY 18, 2017

In a review paper in the journal Nature Materials , Jean-Marie Tarascon (Professor at College de France and Director of RS2E, French Network on Electrochemical Energy Storage) and Clare Gray (Professor at the University of Cambridge), call for integrating the sustainability of battery materials into the R&D efforts to improve rechargeable batteries.

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AUGUST 24, 2016

A team at the Ohio State University has developed a membrane that regulates bi-directional ion transport across it as a function of its redox state and that could be used as a programmable smart membrane separator in future supercapacitors and redox flow batteries. Travis Herya and Sundaresan (2016). Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

In the first group, 16 awards totaling $435 million will support fully integrated, regional Smart Grid demonstrations in 21 states, representing more than 50 utilities and electricity organizations with a combined customer base of almost 100 million consumers. Demonstration of Sodium Ion Battery for Grid Level Applications. 10,792,045.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Professor Figge from Queen’s University Management School said: “Economic crisis, energy crisis, climate crisis and recent global developments have affected the automobile industry like few other sectors. Its sodium oxide value contributions show the worst level of resource efficiency in the entire study. billion from 1999 to 2007.

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APRIL 26, 2024

A team from the Beijing University of Chemical Technology has used a formic acid-hydrogen peroxide system for selective leaching of lithium ions from spent lithium iron phosphate batteries. A paper on their process was published in the Journal of Power Sources.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A team led by researchers at Oregon State University have demonstrated that diffusion may not be necessary to transport ionic charges inside a hydrated solid-state structure of a battery electrode. Grotthuss proton conduction is very fast, and it is responsible for the anomalously high conductivity of acids. Grotthuss mechanism. Source: OSU.

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

Two chemists at Brown University have streamlined the conversion of waste vegetable oil (WVO) into biodiesel, eliminating the need for corrosive chemicals to perform the reactions. Also, the conversion requires the toxic chemicals sulfuric acid and either potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide. That makes the process less efficient.

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AUGUST 2, 2012

Lead organization. Utah State University. Utah State University will develop electronic hardware and. Pennsylvania State University. Pennsylvania State University is developing an innovative. Washington University. Washington University in St. Lead organization. Advanced Sodium Battery.

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JUNE 19, 2015

Lead organization. Clemson University. Breeding High Yielding Bioenergy Sorghum for the New Bioenergy Belt Clemson University, along with the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute and partners, will phenotype an exhaustive set of international germplasm and plant varieties. Purdue University. Lead organization.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The surfactant chemicals found in samples of fracking fluid collected in five states were no more toxic than substances commonly found in homes, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder. We found chemicals in the samples we were running that most of us are putting down our drains at home.

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DECEMBER 4, 2013

The work most recently reported in the Journal of the American Chemical Society by a team of researchers from Argonne and King Abdulaziz University (Saudi Arabia) advances their earlier work with selenium as a high energy density cathode material. The effects of organic electrolytes on the (de)lithiation process (i.e., Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 19, 2022

“Energy and information are two basic currencies of organic and social systems," the economics Nobelist Herb Simon once. Energy and information are two basic currencies of organic and social systems. observed. "A Electric vehicles at scale alter the terms of both basic currencies concurrently. Herb Simon.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Arizona State University, in partnership with Fluidic Energy Inc., DOE grant: $7,200,000). DOE grant:$5,349,932).

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MAY 23, 2023

They’re not just action potentials, but that there are electrical properties in every one of our cells, but also at the organ level, potentially at the sort of entire system level, that people are trying to figure out what they actually do. It’s got sodium, potassium, calcium, etc., It doesn’t really like sodium so much.

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