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Cornell team uses ice-templating to synthesize porous carbon for high performance electrodes for Li-S batteries

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Giannelis (2015) “High-rate lithiumsulfur batteries enabled by hierarchical porous carbons synthesized via ice templation,” Journal of Power Sources , Volume 297 Pages 188-194 doi: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2015.07.068. Tomsia (2007) “Ice-templated porous alumina structures,” Acta Materialia , vol. DiSalvo, Emmanuel P. 2015.07.068.

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3 winners of DOE’s “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator” Challenge: hydrogen-assisted lean-burn engines, graphene for Li-air and -sulfur batteries, and titanium process

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Vorbeck Materials , a startup company based in Jessup, Maryland, is using a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)-developed method for developing graphene for better lithium air and lithium sulfur batteries. These Liquid Desiccant HVAC systems deliver a 50 - 75% reduction in energy usage over conventional HVAC units.

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JRC assesses EU RD&D investments in electric-drive vehicles; controls and energy storage top the list

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The report “ Paving the way to electrified road transport – Publicly funded research, development, and demonstration projects on electric and plug-in cars in Europe ”, lists more than 320 projects covering the period 2007-2015. One of the directions of research is enabling technologies for controls for e drive train technologies.