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ECS announces 2023-2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship recipients

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Yadong Yin at the University of California, Riverside, in 2017. The author of 52 articles with an h-index of 25, and four books/book chapters, Dr. Bai has seven patents pending and one granted patent. He is the author of 56 articles with an h-index of 42 and holds three patents.

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UCSD, South 8 team report improved liquefied-gas electrolytes for Li-metal batteries

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Improvements to a class of battery electrolyte first introduced in 2017—liquefied gas electrolytes—could pave the way to replacing the graphite anode with a lithium-metal anode. cycling efficiency reported in the 2017 Science paper, and an 85% cycling efficiency for lithium metal anodes with a conventional (liquid) electrolyte.

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Why Are We Still Doing What Simon Says?

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Baer, Morrison, and Cope were granted a U.S. One shaped like Darth Vader’s head was introduced in 2017; it features the first four notes of Vader’s leitmotif. See for yourself: Star Wars Simon Darth Vader Game www.youtube.com The first wearable version— Simon Optix —was also released in 2017. patent for the game in 1980.

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Opibus raises $7.5M to mass-produce electric buses & motorcycles

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Opibus an African electric mobility company has announced that it has closed on a round of equity and grant fundraising totalling $7.5 million in grants in a round led by Silicon Valley fund At One Ventures, backed by Factor Ventures and pan-African VC firm Ambo Ventures from the angel investors. Opibus raises $7.5M

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Cambridge team demonstrates light-driven photoreforming of unprocessed biomass to H2 at room temperature

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With the help of Cambridge Enterprise, the commercialization arm of the University, a UK patent has been granted and talks are under way with a potential commercial partner. Wakerley, Moritz F. Kuehnel, Katherine L. Orchard, Khoa H. Ly, Timothy E. 2017.21.

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Magnetic-Confinement Fusion Without the Magnets

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The startup was founded in 2017 as a spin-off of the FuZE (Fusion Z-pinch Experiment) research team at the. Department of Energy grants that enabled them to test the sheared-flow approach at progressively higher energy levels. This article appears in the January 2022 print issue as "A Pinch of Fusion.".

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Williams was granted 27 U.S. Ferreira authored or coauthored 130 journal and transactions articles and more than 400 conference papers. He was granted 15 patents. He also guided the development of thin-film disk drives, according to his biography on the Engineering and Tech History Wiki. patents during his time at IBM.

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