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

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They presented their work at the 247 th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Dallas. In 2004, a research team developed a composite lithium anode with a three-layered structure to overcome this problem. A key challenge of the aqueous system is the low output power of the protected lithium electrode.

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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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On 2 August 1985, Estridge, his wife, Mary Ann, and a handful of IBM salesmen from Los Angeles boarded Delta Flight 191 headed to Dallas. Over the Dallas airport, 700 feet off the ground, a strong downdraft slammed the plane to the ground, killing 137 people including the Estridges and all but one of the other IBM employees.

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The Algorithm that Mapped Omicron Shows a Path Forward

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Only a select few experts are capable of analyzing this esoteric data, and until 2004, they did it mostly in their heads. a splashy paper in the journal Science in July 2004. Seattle would land in one corner, New York in another corner, Dallas would fall in between those two and lower down, and so on.

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The Maestro Behind Design-Software Behemoth Synopsys

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For that reason, Electrical Business magazine named him one of the 10 most influential executives in 2002, as well as its 2004 CEO of the Year. in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University , in Dallas, de Geus joined General Electric in Research Triangle Park, N.C. In the early 1980s, while pursuing a Ph.D.

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