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gallon) for farnesene in September 2015. The company has also accelerated its sales activity relating to high-performance polymer-grade farnesene for the polymers market and Myralene as a replacement for higher-priced limonene. per liter (US$6.63/gallon)

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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered how nanoscale polymer films limit future cost reductions in fuel cell electric vehicles. Researchers agree that polymer electrolyte films that are only tens of nanometers thick are in some way responsible. The results were reported in a paper in the ACS journal Langmuir.

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Lacks Wheel Trim Systems’ new lightweight composite wheel systems are featured on the redesigned 2015 Audi A8 being shown at the Frankfurt Motor Show.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, working as the lead agency in the grant, announced that its scientists have reached a key milestone toward the goal of producing, by mid-2017, a concept tire in which all of the natural and synthetic rubber is replaced by guayule-based polymers. Earlier post.). The results are highly promising.

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The team, led by scientists from Harvard University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, employed a microfluidic assembly technique to produce microcapsules that contain liquid sorbents encased in highly permeable polymer shells. The polymer microcapsules are then heated to release absorbed CO 2 for subsequent collection.

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The report puts a special focus is placed on winning chemistries, with a full analysis of eight inorganic solid electrolytes and of organic polymer electrolytes. In 2015, Volkswagen took a 5% stake in QuantumScape, Dyson acquired Sakti3, Bosch acquired SEEO, and Johnson Battery Technologies sold its solid-state batteries to BP.

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Founded in 2015 as a spin-off from EnerG2, Group14 has developed a new elemental approach to produce ultra-high purity, high capacity silicon-carbon compound materials at low-cost to power the electrified world. Group14’s technology applies complex polymer chemistries to create high-performance silicon-carbon nanocomposites.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

In December 2012, Hyundai will begin production of the ix35 Fuel Cell crossover vehicle at its Ulsan manufacturing facility in Korea, with a target of building up to 1,000 vehicles by 2015. In addition to the fuel cell stack, the ix35 Fuel Cell uses the same lithium-polymer battery found in the Hyundai Sonata Hybrid. Fuel storage.

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JULY 27, 2022

Lignin is a plant-derived polymer found in the cell walls of dry-land plants. Stora Enso’s pilot plant for bio-based carbon materials is located at the Group’s Sunila production site in Finland, where lignin has been industrially produced since 2015. Trees are composed of 20–30% of lignin, where it acts as a natural and strong binder.

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The composition varied considerably with 19 different polymer types found in total ranging between 2 (Ice Floe 4) and 12 types (Bavaria 2) per sample. The number of polymers per sample was significantly higher in European (mean, 8.63 ± 0.80) compared with Arctic (mean, 5.14 ± 0.79) samples (Mann-Whitney U test: W = 123, P = 0.013).

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Since 2015, Ventraco has been conducting research at its Innovation Center to optimize existing solutions and develop new ones. BASF offers polymer solutions for all types of asphalt paving applications. Mario Sandor, Head of Business Management Asphalt Performance at BASF.

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued its FY 2015 Phase I Release 2 Funding Opportunity Announcement ( DE-FOA-0001227 ) for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs.

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Twelve has developed an efficient polymer-electrolyte membrane (PEM) CO 2 electrolyzer that uses proprietary CO 2 -reducing catalysts to split CO 2 with just water and renewable electricity as inputs, syngas (CO and hydrogen) as the output, and pure oxygen as the only byproduct. Since you can’t electrify the plane, we’ve electrified the fuel.

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Polypyrrole is a type of organic polymer formed from by polymerization of pyrrole, a heterocyclic aromatic organic compound; polypyrroles are conducting polymers. MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa “for the discovery and development of conductive polymers ,” including polypyrrole. Heeger, Alan G. —Ma et al. 2014.09.141.

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In a news conference at the Japan National Press Club on Friday, Toyota Motor President Akio Toyoda said that the company plans to begin mass production of electric vehicles in the US in 2012, followed by US production of fuel cell vehicles in 2015. As an example, Yokoyama used the carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) hydrogen storage tank.

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MARCH 24, 2015

Ltd to supply its fast charging lithium-ion batteries for Jiangsu Duke’s 20,000 electronic sports cars in 2015. It expects to produce 20,000 electric sports cars in 2015 and Advanced Battery Technologies will provide the fast charging lithium batteries for all these vehicles.

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JUNE 21, 2015

Researchers at Zhejiang University (China) have developed a multi-functional binder with cation-conductive polymer and polysulfide absorbents that improves the discharge capacity and rate cycleability of Li-sulfur batteries. The Li–S battery showed very low capacity degradation rate of 0.08% per cycle at 1C rate. 2015.06.083.

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Stanford researchers led by Professor Yi Cui have used ceramic nanowire fillers to enhance the ionic conductivity of polymer-based solid electrolyte by three orders of magnitude. The ceramic-nanowire filled composite polymer electrolyte also shows an enlarged electrochemical stability window. Li 3 N and Li 1.3 —Liu et al.

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In the wake of the 1977 Tenerife airport disaster (583 killed in a post-crash fireball), researchers looked into the possibility of using ultralong, associative polymers as a fuel additive to increase the drop diameter in the post-impact mist, thereby limiting the event to a relatively cool, short-lived fire.

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MAY 15, 2015

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have fabricated polymer composites containing 2-inch-by-2-inch sheets of graphene using chemical vapor deposition. We have extended this to a larger scale, which considerably extends the potential applications and market for graphene. —Ivan Vlassiouk.

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JULY 27, 2012

3-D printing technology has existed for about 20 years, but additive manufacturing in its current form is only about five years old, said Brian Rice, head of UDRI’s Multi-Scale Composites and Polymers Division and program lead for the Third Frontier-funded Advanced Materials for Additive Manufacturing Maturation program. Earlier post.).

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At the Beijing Motor Show, Dongfeng Citroën unveiled an electric version of the C-Elysée—its best-selling vehicle in China, with 90,000 sales in 2015. The Citroën E-MEHARI, styled by Courrèges and shown earlier this year at the Geneva show, uses LMP (lithium metal polymer) batteries developed by the Bolloré group.

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Seeo’s cell design couples a solid lithium metal anode with a conventional porous lithium iron phosphate cathode and Seeo’s nanostructured solid polymer electrolyte (“DryLite”). One approach to a solid-state electrolyte is the use of a solid polymer. Unfortunately, hard polymers tend to be nonconductive.

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Currently, carbon fiber (CF) reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites are used to make COPVs. Waterfall plot of the 2013 700 bar compressed hydrogen storage system cost baseline and 2015 cost status update. The cost reductions identified from the 2013 baseline to the 2015 update are shown. Another cost driver is the polymer resin.

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This bio-based engineering plastic will be used for the first time for interior parts for the all-new Mazda MX-5 which will be launched globally in 2015. Bio-polymers Materials' Moving forward, it will be used for exterior parts in other production models.

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OCTOBER 31, 2014

A webinar will be held on these topics on 7 November; the application deadline is 3 February 2015. Awardees must design and fabricate a QC device that is readily implementable in a roll-to-roll production line for the production of one or more MEA component materials.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

By employing proprietary pretreatment and processing, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Drexel University have produced flexible polymer carbon composite films from scrap tires for use as electrodes for supercapacitors. 2015) “Waste Tire Derived Carbon–Polymer Composite Paper as Pseudocapacitive Electrode with Long Cycle Life.”

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AUGUST 25, 2016

Using clean wood as feedstock, the facility has been in operation since 2015 in The Netherlands. The center is part of Technip Stone & Webster Process Technology, which looks after Technip’s expanding portfolio of onshore process technologies in petrochemicals, refining, hydrogen and syngas, polymers and gas monetization.

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ITM Power won a competitive tender to supply a system to EMEC back in 2015. The system’s principal component, a 0.5MW polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyzer, comes with integrated compression and up to 500kg of storage.

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Gates is joined in the round by Total, the global energy major which, after an initial investment in 2015, has expanded its investment and has additionally signed a licensing agreement with Renmatix for 1M tons of annual cellulosic sugar production capacity, at Total’s discretion to build corresponding facilities.

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Cost reduction potential of a polymer fuel cell system using an ITM Power membrane. ITM Power has published figures showing what it believes is the highest ever polymer fuel cell power density using hydrogen as the fuel and ordinary air, rather than pure oxygen. Source: Carbon Trust. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Dow Corning, a global leader in silicones and silicon-based technology, unveiled a significant new enhancement to its Silastic Fluorosilicone Rubber (FSR) portfolio at the SAE 2015 World Congress. —Craig Gross, senior application engineer for Fluorosilicone Elastomers at Dow Corning.

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They were also able to incorporate a variety of functional and charged groups into the polymers. The AGE-containing polymer grows on both ends of the existing polycarbonate, leading to a triblock copolymer. 2015), “Construction of Versatile and Functional Nanostructures Derived from CO 2 -based Polycarbonates,” Angew.

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Ohio-based Strangpresse has exclusively licensed additive manufacturing-related extruder technology from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory that can quickly print hundreds of pounds of polymer material. They supply extruders and other equipment for research and development in additive manufacturing to industry leaders.

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A German-US collaboration including OH-Energy Germany, GmbH; the University of Delaware; Fraunhofer ICT; and Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research released initial results demonstrating 616 mW/cm 2 peak power density at 80 °C for a hydroxide (OH - ) exchange membrane (HEM) fuel cell. Earlier post.).

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Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine, researchers from UC Berkeley, Texas A&M and Stanford have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks.

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Developing purification processes to obtain high purity monomers, development of novel polymers, scale-up of polymer production. E4tech, RE-CORD and WUR (2015) “ From the Sugar Platform to biofuels and biochemicals ”. Final report for the European Commission, contract No. ENER/C2/423-2012/SI2.673791.

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