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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. Lithium/air rechargeable batteries are attracting great attention, because of a possibility to achieve energy density which is comparable to combustion engines.

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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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engineers were forming hobby clubs to learn about the new machines. A friend of Lowe's, Jack Sams, was a software engineer who vaguely knew Bill Gates, and he reached out to the 24-year-old Gates to see if he had an operating system that might work for the new PC. At IBM plants in San Diego, Endicott, N.Y, and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,

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The Maestro Behind Design-Software Behemoth Synopsys

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The IEEE Fellow has been playing guitar in blues and jazz bands since he was an engineering student in the late 1970s. Much like jazz musicians improvising, engineers go with the flow at team meetings, he says: One person comes up with an idea, and another suggests ways to improve it. The company reported US $1.36

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