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QM Power and University of Kentucky demonstrate 50 kW/liter electric motor; DOE 2025 power density goal

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QM Power and the SPARK Lab at University of Kentucky shared the combined results of a large-scale, multi-objective design optimization study, and lab testing of a prototype motor designed to meet the 2025 power density goals set by the US Department of Energy (DOE). Ionel, FIEEE, who serves as the inaugural L. Essakiappan S.,

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Eagle Graphite and University of British Columbia partner on development of silicon-modified anodes

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In 2019, the Government of British Columbia, through the CleanBC Go Electric Advanced Research and Commercialization (ARC) program, selected Eagle for a grant of $290,000. The finished graphite is non-toxic and non-reactive. The ARC program in British Columbia (B.C.) The ARC program provides support to B.C.

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Researchers designs new deep eutectic solvent to recover valuable elements from spent LNCM batteries

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A team from Central South University in China has developed a new type of deep eutectic solvent (DES) that can efficiently leach metal elements from spent Ni-Co-Mn lithium-ion batteries (LNCM). DESs, as green extraction media of metal oxides, were first used to leach LIBs in 2019. …To

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DOE to invest $32M in computer design of materials

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) will invest $32 million over the next four years to accelerate the design of new materials through use of supercomputers. Seven projects will be supported, three led by teams at DOE National Laboratories and four by Universities. Funding for the new projects will total $8 million in Fiscal Year 2019.

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Researchers design nanoparticles for cost-effective hydrogen production process

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Researchers at the University of Arkansas, with colleagues from Brookhaven National Lab and Argonne National Lab, have found that nanoparticles composed of nickel and iron are more effective and efficient than other more costly materials when used as catalysts in the production of hydrogen fuel through water electrolysis. —Manso et al.

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From Cleaning Offices to Designing EV Charging Stations

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Greta Bekerytė started out cleaning offices and ended up designing electronics for EV charging stations. Bekerytė moved from her native Lithuania to Norway in 2010 to take advantage of the country’s free university tuition, but first she had to find a way to support herself. Toward the end of her studies in 2019, she got her big break.

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Mathematically-designed graphene has improved electrocatalytic activity for hydrogen production

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They designed a mathematically-predicted graphene electrocatalyst, and confirmed its performance using high resolution electrochemical microscopy and computational modelling. Ito (2019) “Chemical Dopants on Edge of Holey Graphene Accelerate Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Reaction” Advanced Science doi: 10.1002/advs.201900119.

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