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Unifrax introduces Battery Advisory Board to support SiFAB silicon fiber anode battery technology

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Lane has more than 30 years of experience building and leading global hardware operations and supply chain teams for Fortune 100 companies. Dr. Arumugam “Ram” Manthiram, Professor, University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Manthiram is Director of the Texas Materials Institute and the Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Program.

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3 Challenges to Solve Before We Can Commute by Air Taxi

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All over the world, startup companies, government agencies, universities, and airlines are collaborating to launch an entirely new category of aviation based on electric aircraft capable of both vertical takeoff and efficient horizontal flight. These sensors will detect other aircraft, birds, buildings, and thick clouds.

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Why I Became An Advocate for Girls and Women

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Readers of my “ A Father’s Perspective About Daughters and Engineering ” and “ Fathers Can Be Gender Equity Advocates ” articles often ask what inspired me to become such a strong advocate for girls and women. For three years, she helped build the family’s 250-square-meter house while my father traveled for work. The answer?

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New cathode design and understanding of electrolyte delivers greater efficiency in magnesium-ion batteries

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The work was first conceived by Yan Yao, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston and postdoctoral fellow Hyun Deog Yoo in 2014; the project spanned several years and involved scientists from three universities and three national laboratories, working both experimentally and theoretically.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. The best we can do is to build tools that allow us to explore possible futures.”

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Steradian’s 4D Imaging Radar Aims to Make Self-Driving Cars Smarter

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At the universities where I studied [the National Institute of Technology Calicut and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur], there was a history of faculty publishing in IEEE transactions or journals and referring to them to let us know what was new and trending. Automotive sensing is fast emerging.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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Oxford takes the handoff In 1976, John Goodenough [left] joined the University of Oxford, where he headed development of the first lithium cobalt oxide cathode. The University of Texas at Austin It was the first of many false starts for the rechargeable lithium battery. But he found no takers. Still, there were problems.