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DOE awards Georgia Tech team $600K to advance nanoscale additive manufacturing

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a 3-year, $600,000 grant to help researchers at Georgia Tech advance an additive manufacturing technique for fabricating three-dimensional (3D) nanoscale structures from a variety of materials. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering in the journal Applied Physics Letters in 2011.

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Virginia Clean Cities requests proposals from Southeastern fleets interested in converting to propane Autogas

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The application deadline is Friday, 12 August 2011, at 5pm EDT. Fleets in the following states are welcome to submit proposals: Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi and Washington DC. All eligible public or private fleet operations are welcome to apply.

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NIST Awards $123M in 12 Recovery Act Grants for New Research Facilities; Univ. of Ky CAER to Expand Capacitor and Battery Manufacturing Research with its $11.8M Award

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The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at 11 universities and one non-profit research organization. million to Purdue University (West Lafayette, Ind.)

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$112.5M awarded to research consortia studying effects of Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Gulf of Mexico

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The new grant recipients were selected using a competitive merit-review process. The grants awarded were in response to RFP-I, a request for proposals the GRI Research Board issued on 25 April 2011. On 30 June, the Research Board awarded 17 grants totaling $1.5 Lead Institution: Florida State University.

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Researchers find that algae-derived natural polysaccharide as a binder yields stable Li-ion battery silicon anode with 8x reversible capacity of graphitic anodes

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Researchers from Clemson University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have identified a promising new binder material for lithium-ion battery electrodes that not only could boost energy storage, but also eliminate the use of toxic compounds now used to manufacture the components. 1 V vs. Li/Li +. Click to enlarge. 1209150.

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Range Fuels Produces Cellulosic Methanol from Biomass at Soperton Plant

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has produced cellulosic methanol from the initial phase of its first commercial cellulosic biofuels plant near Soperton, Georgia using non-food biomass. Range received a $76-million grant from DOE to help build a 40 MGY wood-based ethanol plant in 2007. Range Fuels, Inc. cellulosic ethanol—in 2010. Earlier post.).

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Ford to invest $1.8B in R&D in China

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Due in part to advanced treatment and reuse technology, Ford’s multiple assembly plants in Chongqing reused 250,000 cubic meters of water in 2014; compared with 2011, Ford used 36% less water per vehicle produced in China in 2014. The company also announced it plans to invest an additional RMB 50 million (US$7.9

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