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ECS announces 2023-2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship recipients

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The author of 52 articles with an h-index of 25, and four books/book chapters, Dr. Bai has seven patents pending and one granted patent. He is the author of 56 articles with an h-index of 42 and holds three patents. He served as Guest Editor for Batteries , and Clean Technologies and Recycling.

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Elon Musk confirms Tesla’s $1.4 billion loan for Giga Shanghai was paid off early

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billion loan, which was granted from Chinese banks, in just sixteen months. ” His statement was a response to a CleanTechnica article. In May 2013, Tesla, then Tesla Motors, announced that it had paid off a massive loan from the U.S. Musk later confirmed the story by stating, “Tesla always pays its debts.”

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Virginia Tech researchers develop high-energy-density sugar “biobattery”, an enzymatic fuel cell

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Additional funding was contributed by the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research grant to Cell-Free Bioinnovations Inc. Zhiguang Zhu, the first author of this paper, and a 2013 biological systems engineering graduate of Virginia Tech, is the principal investigator for the National Science Foundation grant.

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EU representatives meeting to discuss situation with Daimler and 1234yf

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Directive 2006/40/EC on mobile air conditioning (MAC Directive) became fully applicable on 1 January 2013. There are also vehicles produced from May 2013 and approved under an extension of a previous type approval granted by the German authority, whose legal status needs to be investigated further, Tajani said.

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University of California adopts full open access policy for research papers system-wide

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The Academic Senate of the University of California has passed an Open Access Policy, ensuring that future research articles authored by faculty at all 10 campuses of the UC will be made available to the public at no charge. Previously, publishers had sole control of the distribution of these articles. —Richard A.

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Univ. of Exeter team engineers unique biological pathway for the production of diesel range hydrocarbons by E. coli

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The results presented in this article, although at a very early stage in product development, contribute toward the goals of advanced biofuels by providing metabolic pathways for the production of industrially relevant, petroleum-replica fuel molecules. PNAS 2013 doi: 10.1073/pnas.1215966110. —Howard et al. Kolak, George N.

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Virginia Tech team develops process for high-yield production of hydrogen from xylose under mild conditions

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The lead author of the article, Julia S. grant from the Mexican Council of Science and Technology. Percival Zhang (2013) High-Yield Production of Dihydrogen from Xylose by Using a Synthetic Enzyme Cascade in a Cell-Free System. Martín Del Campo, who works in Zhang’s lab, received her Ph.D.

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