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Unifrax introduces Battery Advisory Board to support SiFAB silicon fiber anode battery technology

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Prabhakar Patil, former CEO, LG Chem Power, and Chief Engineer of Hybrid Technologies, Ford Motor Company. Prior to joining LGCPI in 2005, Dr. Patil spent 27 years of his professional career at Ford Motor Company in various engineering and management positions. Dr. Manthiram holds the Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering #5.

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Ionic Materials raises $65M in Series C; polymer electrolyte for solid-state batteries

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Further advancements made possible by Ionic Materials’ polymer will support very inexpensive and low-cost rechargeable alkaline batteries as well. Low cost precursors. Joy served as chief scientist there until 2003. Key properties of Ionic Materials’ polymer include: Up to 1.3 mS/cm at room temperature.

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Lockheed Martin’s CTO Steven Walker on Future Defense Technologies

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He participated in the university's USAF ROTC program before earning a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering in 1987. So he returned to Dayton and got an engineering job at the AFRL's Air Vehicles Directorate working on air acoustics and designing exhaust systems for military airplanes. in aerospace engineering from Notre Dame.

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Amyris Opens Renewable Products Demonstration Facility in Brazil; Final Scale-up Before Commercial Production of Renewable Fuels and Chemicals

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it is a drop-in replacement for petroleum-derived fuels, enabling it to be used in any kind of diesel engine and withstand extremely low temperatures without the need to alter engines. A key attribute of the fuel is that it is a renewable hydrocarbon—i.e., Earlier post.).

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Groundbreaking in Turkmenistan for major synthetic gasoline plant; first full-scale Haldor Topsøe TIGAS facility

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and the Turkish contractor Rönesans Turkmen to engineer and construct the facility. This means that production can take place far from refineries, the existing infrastructure can be used for distribution, and car engines can use it as fuel without modification. without isolation of methanol as an intermediate. Spath and D.C.

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Profile: Li-ion Provider Compact Power, Inc. Focusing on the Automotive and Vehicle Markets

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Dr. Patil has an undergraduate degree from IIT, Bombay (India) and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He served as the chief engineer for the Ford Escape Hybrid from 1998 to 2003 and holds 12 patents. Contributing writer Bill Cooke has been an engineer and manager with Ford and Visteon.].

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Honda May Develop Plug-In as Obama Alters U.S. Policy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

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Bush in 2003 committed$1.2 The Energy Department is also preparing to award as muchas $25 billion in low-cost federal loans for production ofadvanced technology vehicles, with many of the applicationscoming from companies planning to build plug-ins or thebatteries and components needed to power them. percent, to $27.65

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