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NSF awards UIC $1.44M to discover new 2D materials for better batteries

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Since the discovery of graphene in 2004, about 700 2D materials are predicted to be stable; many remain to be synthesized. During the four year grant cycle, Salehi-Khojin and Klie will be assisted by researchers at Washington University of St. The global market for 2D materials is expected to reach $390 million within a decade.

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Junkyard Find: 1964 Mercury Montclair Four-Door Hardtop Marauder

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The door tag tells us that this car was assembled in St. Louis on November 7, 1963. The Montclair and Park Lane names disappeared after 1968 (the Monterey name survived through 1974, then was revived for the Mercurized Ford Freestar in 2004). The Mercury brand itself departed this world after 2011.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

Cars That Think

Critically for Sutherland, he supported a new effort by Clark, who by then had moved from MIT to Washington University, in St. Clark had created an innovative small computer intended for an individual user called the LINC, especially suited to the real time needs of biomedical research, and he moved the project and team to St.

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