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Univ of Illinois team mixed metals with perchloric acid to create stable, efficient catalyst for water splitting

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Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have mixed metal compounds with perchloric acid to create a stable, efficient electrocatalytic material for the oxygen evolution reaction in acidic media. Electrolyzers use electricity to break water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen. The resulting porous Y 2 [Ru 1.6

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DOE awards $10.6M to ROGUE to engineer energycane, Miscanthus to produce oil for biodiesel, biojet fuel

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded the University of Illinois a $10.6-million, The new research project Renewable Oil Generated with Ultra-productive Energycane (ROGUE) kicked off on 25 February with a team meeting held in conjunction with the 2018 Genomic Sciences Program Annual Principal Investigator Meeting in Tysons, Virginia.

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ECS and Toyota North America announce 2016-2017 Fellowship winners for projects in green energy technology

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The winners are Professor Elizabeth Biddinger, City College of New York; Professor Joaquin Rodriguez Lopez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Professor Joshua Snyder, Drexel University. Industrial Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Engineering Division of ECS. Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry Division of ECS.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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"I loved everything about engineering, programming, and building things," he says. "I I wanted to figure out a way to combine my interests in both engineering and medicine.". Two years later he was accepted into the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Pierre , 2018–2019 U.S.

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Study finds carbon capture & storage could be financial opportunity for conventional ethanol plants

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The analysis combines process engineering, spatial optimization, and lifecycle assessment to consider the technical, economic, and institutional feasibility of near-term carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). Mach (2018) “Near-term deployment of carbon capture and sequestration from biorefineries in the United States” PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1719695115.

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Applications open for ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship for innovative electrochemical research; alignment with Toyota’s needs

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ECS (The Electrochemical Society), in partnership with the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA), a division of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. Proposals should be submitted no later than 31 January 31, 2018. Professor Joaquin Rodriguez Lopez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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The State of the Transistor in 3 Charts

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But size isn’t the only feature engineers have been improving. Behind that barely conceivable number is the continued reduction in the price of a transistor, as engineers have learned to integrate more and more of them into the same area of silicon. Five minutes in water was enough to turn the first generation to mush.