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Mie University team working on aqueous li-air batteries; 300 Wh/kg

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Lead researcher Nobuyuki Imanishi said that the system has a practical energy density of more than 300 Wh/kg, about twice that of many commercial lithium-ion batteries. They presented their work at the 247 th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Dallas.

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New mixed-oxide catalysts shown as viable substitute for platinum catalysts for diesel exhaust aftertreatment

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Nanostellar was founded in California in 2004 by scientists from Stanford University and NASA Ames Research Center. Co-founder and Chief Science Officer Dr. Kyeongjae (KJ) Cho, currently professor of materials science and engineering and physics at the University of Texas, Dallas, is a senior author on the Science paper.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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IBM's large commercial customers faced the implications of this emerging technology: Who would maintain the equipment and its software? It could run various software packages and a nice collection of commercial and consumer tools, including the accessible BASIC programming language. Tom Munnecke/Getty Images. Then disaster struck.

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