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MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. Earlier post.) —Licht et al. 5b00400.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

President Barack Obama’s 2016 Budget requests $29.9 The FY 2016 DOE Budget Request represents a 9% increase ($2.5 billion, the FY 2016 Budget requests $4.8 billion, the FY 2016 Budget Request provides $5.34 billion for the US Department of Energy (DOE). billion) above the FY 2015 enacted level. Within the $10.7

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JULY 1, 2018

A study by a team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. —Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, the study’s senior author and an assistant professor of medicine at Washington University. million new diabetes cases globally in 2016—about 14% of all new diabetes cases globally that year. Louis Health Care System links PM 2.5

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JANUARY 26, 2016

There has been growing interest in the potential for converting glycerol—a relatively large (about 10 wt %) byproduct of the conventional production of biodiesel (fatty acid methyl esters)—into solketal (2,2-dimethyl 1,3-dioxalane-4-methanol) for use as an oxygenated fuel additive or diesel combustion promoter. Nekhaev, Anton L.

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JUNE 24, 2016

Chemists from the Universities of Basel and Zurich have reproduced one of the crucial phases of natural photosynthesis using artificial molecules. Oliver Wenger (University of Basel) and Prof. Peter Hamm (University of Zurich), who jointly led the study. Resources. Orazietti, M. Kuss-Petermann, P. doi: 10.1002/anie.201604030.

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APRIL 11, 2017

This could form the basis of a new, more efficient process for converting the greenhouse gas CO 2 into a useful carbon source for the production of fuels and chemical products. Their material of choice is powdered elemental boron, which very strongly absorbs sunlight and efficiently converts it photothermically, heating itself up remarkably.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Three startups from the West Coast—Zendrive ( earlier post ), PolySync ( earlier post ) and Civil Maps ( earlier post )—will join TechLab at Mcity this fall, moving resources to develop their driverless vehicle technologies in Ann Arbor. Driver safety is the ultimate goal for this emerging technology.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2015

The Bioenergy Technologies Office is working to produce cost-competitive ($3/gallon of gasoline equivalent) advanced biofuels from non-food biomass resources that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% or more versus petroleum-based alternatives. Metabolix in collaboration with North Carolina State University. BETO awards. Description.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

A team from IBM Research and Stanford University has identified a chemical catalyst that can be used to create cheaper, biodegradable plastics from plants such as palm trees and beets. The current method to convert plants into biodegradable plastics imparts heavy metals into the process. Xiangyi Zhang, Gavin O. Jones, James L.

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MARCH 21, 2016

—Robert Klein, a researcher at the USDA-ARS and Texas A&M University. Researchers define germplasm as a living genetic resource such as seed or tissue. 2016) “Registration of 40 Converted Germplasm Sources from the Reinstated Sorghum Conversion Program” Journal of Plant Registrations Vol. —Robert Klein.

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APRIL 18, 2017

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed and demonstrated at laboratory scale a novel process to synthesize low-cost, polymeric valerolactones with tunable mechanical properties and low glass transition temperatures. The University is seeking to license the technology. Brutman, Guilhem X. De Hoe, Deborah K.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

A team at the University of California, Irvine has discovered that the iron protein (the reductase component) of the natural enzyme nitrogenase can, independent of its natural catalytic partner, convert CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO)—a syngas used to produce useful biofuels and other chemical products. Further, the engineered A.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have engineered a new synthetic biopathway that can more efficiently and cost-effectively turn agricultural waste such corn stover and orange peels into a variety of useful products ranging from spandex to chicken feed. The study was published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology.

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JULY 31, 2019

—Dr Rob McElroy of the University of York, who is a researcher on the R2LIB project. Established in 2006, Circa Group converts waste biomass into bio-based chemicals with its proprietary Furacell process at its prototype plant in Tasmania—a joint venture with Norske Skog. Sherwood, J., De bruyn Mario, Constantinou, A.,

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MARCH 21, 2016

In the journal Angewandte Chemie , Chinese scientists report on a new bifunctional catalyst that converts syngas to lower olefins (C 2 -C 4 ) with high selectivity. First the CO and H 2 are converted to methanol. An alternative method is the conversion of synthesis gas in two process steps.

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JULY 3, 2016

A study by a team at University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign has found that, with currently achievable performance levels, synthetic fuels produced via the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 and the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process system are not economically and environmentally competitive with using petroleum-based fuel. —Li et al.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

In a new study from the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Chicago, researchers report devising a new transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) nanoarchitecture for catalytic electrochemical reduction of CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO) in an ionic liquid. —Asadi et al. Credit: Asadi et al.

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APRIL 12, 2017

Researchers at Oklahoma State University are developing a novel natural Gas and Biomass to Liquids (GBTL) technology that will synergistically use biomass (e.g. Bio-oil produced from biomass fast pyrolysis technology can be converted into hydrocarbons; however, this process is challenging due to the instability of bio-oil.

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MARCH 10, 2016

Researchers at Stanford University have devised a new strategy for using CO 2 in the synthesis of multi-carbon compounds. One approach is to convert fructose from corn syrup into FDCA. After five hours, 89% of the molten-salt mixture had been converted to FDCA. Aanindeeta Banerjee, Graham R. Dick, Tatsuhiko Yoshino & Matthew W.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016

A team at Purdue University has used pollens as the basis for carbon architectures for anodes in energy storage devices. A vast biomass resource with wide selectivity of morphologies is pollen. Tang and Pol (2016). Biomass sources can be carefully selected to fine tune the morphologies. —Tang and Pol. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

A team from the University of Science & Technology of China in Hefei has developed a three-step process for the conversion of vegetable oils (triglycerides) into cycloparaffinic and aromatic biofuels in jet fuel range. Nearly all of the aromatics were then converted into the saturated cycloparaffins (containing 84.3 —Wu et al.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

The GDL in polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell provides a steady supply of gas to the catalyst layers, which are located on both sides of the ion exchange membrane and which convert hydrogen and oxygen into electrical energy and water. CNRS Montpellier, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., 2011.12.148.

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OCTOBER 15, 2016

In 2014, researchers from Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and their colleagues successfully engineered poplar trees to produce lignin that degrades more easily, thereby lowering the effort and cost to convert wood to biofuel. Earlier post.). Karlen, Chengcheng Zhang, Matthew L. Peck, Rebecca A.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Inspired by the damping mechanisms which sustain trees under wind and seismic loads, researchers at The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan are investigating the potential for the development of energy harvesting systems that efficiently convert the same motion- and wind-based excitations into electric power.

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APRIL 4, 2016

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have discovered a natural process for the breakdown of biomass they describe as “reverse photosynthesis”—as opposed to the building of biomass as is the case with photosynthesis. —University of Copenhagen Professor Claus Felby, who led the research. Resources. Cannella, K.

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JUNE 1, 2016

The kraft process converts wood into wood pulp for paper production. In a paper describing the kraft recovery process, Honghi Tran from the University of Toronto and Esa K. 2016) “Green Diesel from Kraft Lignin in Three Steps” ChemSusChem doi: 10.1002/cssc.201600172. Their paper appears in the journal ChemSusChem. Löfstedt, J.,

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JUNE 15, 2016

Using particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO), the researchers created a biocatalytic polymer material that converts methane to methanol. The LLNL team collaborated with (link is external)Northwestern University (link is external) researchers Sarah Sirajuddin and Professor Amy Rosenzweig. Blanchette, Jennifer M. Knipe, Joshuah K.

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JUNE 15, 2016

The new study describes the complexities in assessing sustainability as related to energy and food security in four parts: food security; interactions among food security, biofuels, and resource management; priorities and conditions for achieving positive synergies; and. —Dr Glaucia Souza, University of São Paulo. Kline et al.

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JUNE 3, 2016

The research was led by Daniel Nocera, the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard University, and Pamela Silver, the Elliott T. The system can now convert solar energy to biomass with 10% efficiency, Nocera said, far above the one percent seen in the fastest growing plants. and Onie H. —Daniel Nocera. Silver, Daniel G.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Researchers at Washington State University have developed a novel route for the production of jet fuel range alkanes at high carbon yields from plastics. There is also no literature reported on tailored catalysts that converted plastics into jet fuels (kerosene). 2016.10.015.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Engineers at Iowa State University have developed a hybrid process that combines bio- and electrocatalysis to convert glucose into bio-based unsaturated nylon-6,6—which has the advantage of an extra double bond in its backbone that can be used to tailor the polymer’s properties. Resources. Their study is published in the 12 Feb.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Platinum is used to catalyze the key oxygen reduction reaction in the fuel cell’s cathode, directly converting the chemical energy in hydrogen fuel into electricity, with water vapor as the byproduct. The research was supported by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.

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MARCH 18, 2016

A techno-economic analysis by a team from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University has determined that biodiesel produced from oil from genetically modified lipid-producing sugarcane (lipid-cane) is much more economical than biodiesel produced from soybean oil. percent oil.

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JULY 24, 2016

Researchers at Rice University’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP), with colleagues at Princeton University, have developed a new method for uniting light-capturing photonic nanomaterials and high-efficiency metal catalysts, creating an “antenna-reactor” plasmonic catalyst. Swearer/Rice University) Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 8, 2016

A team led by researchers from the University of Oxford has developed a simple but highly selective catalytic process for the direct hydrodeoxygenation of vegetable oils (triglycerides) into diesel-range alkanes under mild conditions over a Pd/NbOPO 4 catalyst. Resources. —Tsang et al. Zhuang, M. Gong and Y.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2016

In four campaigns over the year-long study, the team from the University of Toronto measured emissions 15 meters from the roadway, then converted the measurements to fuel-based emission factors (EFs). Some projections expect the 2016 market share of new LDVs with GDI engines to exceed 50%. —Zimmerman et al. 5b04444.

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AUGUST 5, 2016

A team from CoorsTek Membrane Sciences, the University of Oslo (Norway), and the Instituto de Tecnología Química (ITQ) (Spain) has developed a new process for the direct, non-oxidative conversion of methane to liquids—reducing cost, eliminating multiple process steps, and avoiding CO 2 emissions. Resources. —Morejudo.

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