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A collaboration led by researchers at Leiden University in The Netherlands has launched a Europe-wide citizen campaign— iSPEX-EU 2015 —to use a smartphone add-on and app to measure atmospheric aerosols (tiny particles), resulting in a broad-based data set with high spatio-temporal resolution.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2016

A study of emissions from gasoline direct injection (GDI) vehicles in an urban near-road environment in Toronto over a wide range of weather conditions (February 2014 to January 2015) found that—other than for NO x and CO—the GDI engines had elevated emissions compared to the Toronto fleet.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

Researchers at Nankai University in China report their latest advance in developing a rechargeable Li-CO 2 battery with the use of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with high electrical conductivity and porous three-dimensional networks as air cathodes for the rechargeable metal-CO 2 batteries. Zhang Zhang et al. Xin Zhang et al. CNTs and 10 wt.%

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AUGUST 15, 2015

A team at the University of Washington (Seattle) led by Dr. Venkat Subramanian has developed an approach that helps solve battery models without knowing the exact initial conditions and without having to use a Newton Raphson iteration (a method for finding successively better approximations of a real-valued function) or a nonlinear solver.

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AUGUST 23, 2013

Plants need nitrogen to grow, and by 2015, more than 190.4 Golbeck, Penn State University; Christopher A. Voigt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Susan Rosser, University of Glasgow; and Bill Rutherford, Imperial College London. NSF solely awarded one of the four projects. Oxygen-Tolerant Nitrogenase ($1.87M).

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AUGUST 10, 2016

Toyota Research Institute (TRI) ( earlier post ) is making a $22-million investment in research focused on artificial intelligence, robotics and autonomous driving at the University of Michigan (U-M). TRI- CEO Gill Pratt made the announcement in an address to the U-M faculty.

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JANUARY 12, 2013

In February 2012, the China State Council approved its first national ambient air quality standard for PM 2.5 , which will come into effect by the end of 2015. 2020),” which plans to achieve accumulated sales of 500,000 new-energy vehicles (including hybrids and EVs) by 2015, and 5 million by 2020. Credit: ACS, Huo et al. Earlier post.]

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

is introducing the industry’s first embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) solution for use in next-generation automotive applications. Embedded UFS solutions have been used in a variety of mobile applications since early 2015, when Samsung introduced 128GB embedded memory based on the JEDEC UFS 2.0 Samsung Electronics Co.,

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billion) above the FY 2015 enacted level. billion above the FY 2015 Enacted level, sustains DOE’s role as the largest federal sponsor of basic research in the physical sciences and develops and operates advanced scientific user facilities at the National Laboratories to maintain the nation’s primacy in science and innovation.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Researchers at Washington University in St. Microorganisms have evolved a bewildering array of techniques to obtain nutrients from their surrounding environments. Bai worked as a research assistant in the Bose lab in Arts & Sciences from 2015-2020. Louis have discovered a new way to train microbes to make n -butanol.

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APRIL 23, 2014

This is the second EPIC investment plan and covers the years 2015-2017. The approved 2014-2015 Investment Plan Update for the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector, which accounts for about 40% of California''s carbon emissions.

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Twenty-one years later, the ARC, which operates as a consortium of six universities [ 2 ] collaborating with partners from both industrial and government sectors, gathered once again on the University of Michigan’s North Campus for its 21 st Annual Program Review. Footnotes. [ 1 ] Gilbert, D., Automotive Research Center.”

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APRIL 1, 2013

Researchers at the University of Calgary have developed a new process for producing amorphous mixed-metal oxide films for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysis for electrolysis. The research was supported by the university’s Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy, Alberta Innovates, Mitacs and FireWater Fuel Corp.

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JULY 29, 2020

The study, by scientists from the University of Leeds, UK and the Southern University of Science and Technology, China, analyzed air pollutant concentrations from China’s national network of around 1,300 monitoring stations to quantify the response of air pollution across China during the COVID-19 lockdown.

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Smil has spent his career working on energy and its interactions with the environment, economy and food production and its impact on the quality of life and political and strategic matters. Vaclav Smil (2015) “Cars Weigh Too Much” Spectrum, IEEE vol.52, He has published 35 books and more than 400 papers on these topics.

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DECEMBER 15, 2014

A team led by researchers from the University of Alberta (Canada) Scientists has developed a hybrid sodium-ion capacitor (NIC) using active materials in both the anode and the cathode derived entirely from peanut shells—a green and highly economical waste globally generated at more than 6 million tons per year. doi: 10.1039/C4EE02986K.

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JUNE 8, 2018

Scientists from Emory University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Air Resources Board teamed to analyze satellite data to determine the 15-year trend of PM 2.5 species, was recently published in the journal Atmospheric Environment. species, was recently published in the journal Atmospheric Environment.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

A team from Duke University in the US and University of York in the UK have utilized a novel method to estimate long-term ozone exposure and previously reported epidemiological results to quantify the health burden from long-term ozone exposure in three major regions of the world. —Seltzer et al. —Karl Seltzer.

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DECEMBER 8, 2014

Researchers at Penn State University have demonstrated the efficient conversion of low-grade thermal energy into electrical power using a thermally regenerative ammonia-based battery (TRAB). The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology supported this work. The researchers have filed a preliminary patent on this work.

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billion) to establish a network of 1 million charging points by 2015 and the building of a €625 million (US$910 million) lithium-ion battery plant at a plant owned by Renault with a public contribution of €125 million (US$182 million) toward the total. Compulsory charge points in parking for office buildings by 2015. billion (US$2.2

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Production of bio-based jet and diesel is expected to begin in 2013 and production of bio-based gasoline, part of the C 3 product platform, will follow in 2015. Zeachem uses an acetogen to ferment biomass-derived sugars to acetic acid. Earlier post. ).

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Shindell, professor of climate science at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, co-authored the paper with colleagues from the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development in Washington, D.C.;

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AUGUST 17, 2012

The results of the study, entitled “Impact of a European directive on ship emissions on air quality in Mediterranean harbours”, have been published in the journal Atmospheric Environment. Raes (2012) Impact of a European directive on ship emissions on air quality in Mediterranean harbors, Atmospheric Environment doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.06.047.

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JULY 19, 2015

To overcome the challenge of soluble polysulfides as charge/discharge intermediates in Li-S batteries, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, with colleagues at Murray State University, have designed highly crosslinked polymer-electrolyte coating layers with electron-donating groups to bind the polysulfides.

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MARCH 2, 2025

She was home one evening in 2015 when her right foot started tingling and gradually lost sensation. Thats when she met a couple of academics at Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver, who had a novel idea for an exoskeleton. But Chlo Angus has quite a different story.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2013

The pilot project is part of the LUTZ (low carbon urban transport zone) project which is a research collaboration between engineering consultancy Arup, Transport Systems Catapult, Cambridge University and the Automotive Council. The ‘pods’ will be able to carry two people and will be run on designated pathways in Milton Keynes city center.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To reduce the number of accidents in the global oil and gas industry caused by damaged pipelines, University of Houston researchers are developing an autonomous robot to identify potential pipeline leaks and structural failures during subsea inspections. When larger spills happen, pipelines are often the culprit.

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Sovacool, Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Sussex. How we shape that pathway will have important consequences for everything from the environment, to development, and geopolitics. —co-author Saleem Ali, Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment at the University of Delaware.

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AUGUST 11, 2015

A team at Monash University (Australia) has developed an “artificial photosynthesis” system that delivers the highest efficiency reported to date—in excess of 22%—for the solar-driven conversion of water to hydrogen. A paper on the researchers’s work is published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science.

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JANUARY 27, 2018

The findings are based largely on unique data made possible by the GoAmazon research campaign, where scientists made ground-based and airborne measurements related to climate during 2014-2015. The campaign was run by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility, a DOE Office of Science user facility. —Jiwen Fan.

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The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University. The Ohio State University.

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ExxonMobil and Princeton University announced the selection of five research projects associated with their partnership focused on energy technologies. Research will be led by Daniel Steingart, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. 78 and William H.

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MARCH 9, 2010

Graphene’s unique structure, only one atom thick, means that each of its carbon atoms is exposed to the environment and, in turn, to the hydrogen gas. The novel form of engineered graphene has exhibited a hydrogen storage capacity of 14% by weight at room temperature, exceeding the capacity of current materials. by 2010 and 9% wt.

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These plants support our plan to install capacity for 30 million batteries annually in China by 2015. There is also a rich environment for innovation and research and development. In three years we will be growing from a single plant to three plants that will produce more than 18 million automotive batteries annually.

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AUGUST 4, 2015

Zhao, Zhaohuan Wei, Peng Tan and Zhao Gang (2015) “A novel solid-state Li-O 2 battery with an integrated electrolyte and cathode structure” Energy Environ. The novel integrated electrolyte and cathode structure represents a significant step toward the advancement of Li-O 2 batteries. —Zhu et.al. Xingbao Zhu, T.

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JULY 8, 2013

Although the models are primarily designed for simulation, but there are also other usages of models, such as optimization, noted Peter Fritzson, Professor at Linköping University, Sweden Vice Chairman of Modelica Association and Director of OSMC in a 2012 overview of Modelica and OpenModelica. Hybrid modeling and simulation.

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AUGUST 3, 2011

million ha (49,421 square miles) are expected to be planted by 2015—are “ anything but encouraging ”, according to Promode Kant from the Institute of Green Economy in India and Shuirong Wu of the Chinese Academy of Forestry. The results of massive plantings of Jatropha worldwide for use as a biofuel feedstock—some 12.8

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