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JULY 27, 2016

In this discovery made by the Utah and Minnesota team, the interface between STO and NTO can be at the very least as conductive as gallium nitride and likely will be much more in the future. Their findings were published in an open access paper in the journal, APL Materials, from the American Institute of Physics.

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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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APRIL 9, 2016

All vehicles have higher emissions in Minnesota, a colder state, compared to California. Both batteries and engines are less efficient when cold, but gasoline vehicles are able to use waste heat from the engine to heat the cabin, while BEVs and EREV PHEVs need to draw energy from the battery to heat the cabin. —Yuksel et al.

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