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JUNE 12, 2022

A team from Washington State University (WSU) and Nissan has integrated a catalyst layer into into metal-supported solid oxide fuel cell (MS-SOFC), enabling successful operation with a direct ethanol feed. A paper on their work appears in the Journal of Power Sources. —Dewa et. Earlier post.) earlier post , earlier post.).

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JANUARY 20, 2016

A team of engineers at the University of Bristol has developed a new type of 3D printing that can print composite materials. Trask (2016) “ 3-D printed components with ultrasonically arranged microscale structure ” Smart Materials and Structures [Open Access]. — Dr. Richard Trask, corresponding author and. Drinkwater, Richard S.

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JUNE 21, 2017

Audi and the Johannes Kepler University of Linz (JKU) are establishing the “Audi.JKU deep learning center” in Linz to conduct joint research into the intelligent car of the future. Through cooperation with the Institute for Bioinformatics headed by Prof. Sepp Hochreiter, Audi plans to promote the use of artificial intelligence in automobiles.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

In China in particular, there are abundant coal resources, and the technology of using coal to obtain methanol has been perfected with low cost; methanol fuel from coal has become one of the most popular alternative fuels for vehicles. A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. 6b01586.

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APRIL 14, 2016

BAIC BJEV), a subsidiary of BAIC, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Dresden University of Technology (TUD) to create the Sino-German Automotive Light Weighting Technology Joint R&D Center. The first production car model based on the platform will be unveiled at Auto China 2016 in April. Beijing Electric Vehicle Co.,

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APRIL 25, 2016

NEC Corporation, NEC TOKIN Corporation and TOHOKU UNIVERSITY have jointly created a thermoelectric (TE) device using the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) with conversion efficiency 10 times higher than a test module that was produced based on a multi-layered SSE technology published by the Tohoku University group in 2015.

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JUNE 17, 2016

This summer dozens of scientists from State and federal agencies and universities are using four different aircraft with more than 200 flight hours, balloons that measure ozone aloft, and a laser-based instrument that measures ozone above the ground up to 12,000 feet, to investigate ozone which enters California from the Pacific Ocean.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

This could more than triple job creation from resource recovery in Australia, where the recycling sector currently generates 9.2 Litter – $70M: Australia spent $70 million cleaning up dumped waste in 2016–17. Develop markets for secondary materials and the products that use them. Streamline nationally consistent governance.

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The collaboration is further supported by a strong research consortium including Safran Tech (the Research & Technology Center of Safran Group), the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, Fraunhofer Institute, the French National Centre for Scientific Research, the University of Strasbourg, and the IMDEA Energy Institute.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The Volkswagen and BASF international “Science Award Electrochemistry 2016” goes to Dr. William Chueh from Stanford University. Dr. Martin Ebner received his PhD in Material Science at the ETH University Zurich. Dr. William C.

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MARCH 15, 2016

Credit: International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I²CNER), Kyushu University. A polybenzimidazole polymer supports the formation of gold nanoparticles with well-defined sizes on graphene. Click to enlarge. Creating small, well-controlled particles meant that we needed to focus on particle nucleation and particle growth.

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MAY 10, 2021

Texas Mineral Resources Corp. The Texas Mineral Resources consortium objective is to install a self-contained, modular and portable pilot plant at a Jeddo Coal Pennsylvania site, capable of producing 1-3 metric tons of rare earth oxides derived from coal waste material from Pennsylvania anthracite coal.

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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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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

A study by a team from the University of Toronto and Ford R&D in Dearborn has found that lightweighting is an effective solution that could provide important near-term GHG emission reductions especially during the next 10–20 years when the fleet is dominated by conventional powertrain vehicles. light-duty fleet from 2016 to 2050.

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MAY 2, 2022

Accompanying the lower noise levels from bus traffic was a reduction of fatigue, day time sleepiness and low mood, a study at the University of Gothenburg shows. 2020) “Low-Frequency Noise and Its Main Effects on Human Health—A Review of the Literature between 2016 and 2019.” Study report (in Swedish). Applied Sciences. 10(15):5205.

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APRIL 21, 2022

The group is joined by a non-financial investor UniTartu Ventures, an investment company of the University of Tartu, which transfers the IP rights for equity. This has a major negative impact on the environment as they are either mined or synthesized from energy-dense fossil resources.

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JUNE 20, 2016

Three of the applications have managed to scale to the full system, and have been nominated as the finalists for the Gordon Bell award of 2016—the highest honor in the domain of high performance computing applications. Fu H H, Liao J F, Yang J Z, et al.

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MAY 24, 2018

The Ohio State University has taken first place in the final year of EcoCAR 3, an Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition, sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and General Motors Co. West Virginia University and University of Alabama teams finished second and third place, respectively. kWh energy storage system.

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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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MARCH 15, 2018

The researchers present these results in the journal Nature Reviews Materials as part of a cost and resource analysis of sodium-ion batteries. … Estimated number of devices and related energy demand for 2016–2050. Resources. Passerini (2018) “A cost and resource analysis of sodium-ion batteries“ Nat. Buchholz, M.

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MAY 9, 2019

Researchers from the University of Kentucky and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority have determined that, contrary to the concept and vision, transportation network companies such as Uber and Lyft are the biggest contributor to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco. Darker colors represent a higher density of TNC activity.

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APRIL 18, 2018

Seven billion people, more than 95% of the world’s population, lived in areas exceeding the WHO Guideline for healthy air in 2016, according to a new global study. Comparison of 2016 annual average PM 2.5 Population-weighted seasonal average ozone concentrations in 2016. In 2016 a total of 2.5 State of Global Air 2018.

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We’ve been working with LM Industries’ team at Local Motors since early 2016 when we realized the unique value proposition surrounding direct digital manufacturing and open-source design.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

The California Energy Commission and California Air Resources Board released the annual Joint Agency Staff Report on Assembly Bill 8: 2016 Assessment of Time and Cost Needed to Attain 100 Hydrogen Refueling Stations in California. Source: CEC, CARB 2016 Joint Staff Report. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 7, 2016

These projects, selected through collaborative research consortia, will leverage industry, university and laboratory expertise to accelerate advanced hydrogen storage technologies and fuel cell performance and durability. University of Missouri, St. Earlier post.).

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REALCAR began as a partnership between Jaguar Land Rover, Innovate UK, Novelis, Norton aluminum, Stadco, Brunel University London, Zyomax and Innoval Technology. million) million to the project in 2016 as part of its Manufacturing and Materials Round One funding competition. Innovate UK awarded a grant of £1.3 (US$1.7

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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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MARCH 15, 2016

A team at the University of Bristol in the UK has developed an extremely selective (>99%) and productive (>75% conversion) homogeneous ruthenium catalyst for the production of isobutanol from methanol-ethanol mixtures. A paper on their work is published in the RSC journal Chemical Communications. —Wingad et al.

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Virginia Tech and the University of Waterloo took second and third place respectively. As part of the EcoCAR 3 Competition, each university team chose a different innovation that they will incorporate into their competition vehicle. Each team will receive their 2016 Camaro this fall. Earlier post.) —M.J.

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The research was supported by the Welch Foundation (C-1220, C-1222), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-15-1-0022), Syzygy Plasmonics, the Department of Defense and Princeton University. The best of these are also typically made with precious metals like silver and gold. Carter, Peter Nordlander, and Naomi J.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2018

With 200,000 electric vehicles set to be on UK roads by the end of 2018 and worldwide sales growing by 45% in 2016, investment in car batteries is a massive opportunity for Britain and one that is estimated to be worth £5 billion by 2025. In addition, industrial partners will contribute a total of £4.6 million (US$6.4

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With that in mind, DriveElectric and the Smart Mobility Unit of the University of Hertfordshire have launched a survey to understand more about the access to electric vehicles for businesses and their charging. Useful resources for fleets looking to make the switch. 1 of 20 Non Plastic Beach plastic free starter kits.

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Applications are due by 12 August 2016. The award ceremony takes place in Berlin on 21 November 2016. In 2016, on the occasion of the 5 th ceremony of the science award, a special prize worth €15,000 will be awarded to recognize applied research. The prize money totals €100,000 and first place receives €50,000. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

A team from the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, has developed a high-power, high-capacity sodium battery with 96% capacity retention after 2,000 cycles. 2016), “High Power–High Energy Sodium Battery Based on Threefold Interpenetrating Network.”

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Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington have been the first to demonstrate that polyaniline (PANI), a member of the organic conducting polymer family, is a promising photocathode material for the conversion of carbon dioxide into alcohol fuels without the need for a co-catalyst. —principal researcher Krishnan Rajeshwar.

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JULY 31, 2016

A team at Zhejiang University in China has significantly enhanced the hydrogen storage properties of sodium aluminum hydride (NaAlH 4 ) by doping it with a 2D titanium carbide (Ti 3 C2) MXene. The onset dehydrogenation temperature of the 7 wt% Ti 3 C 2 -containing NaAlH 4 sample is reduced to 100 °C, and hydrogen recharging starts at 50 °C.

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Naval Group and Sirehna have been able to count on the technical resources and extensive knowledge offered by Centrale Nantes. The school’s expertise in trajectory generation and additive manufacturing is needed to produce the blade.

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