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JULY 25, 2014

A team of researchers from Kyoto University has demonstrated ion-exchanged MgFeSiO 4 as a feasible cathode material for use in high-energy-density rechargeable magnesium batteries. In addition to the high capacity, the relatively high negative reduction potential of magnesium metal can provide high energy density. Orikasa et al.

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JUNE 3, 2014

Scientists in the Rice University lab of chemist James Tour have developed materials that offer a lower cost, less energy-intensive way to separate carbon dioxide from natural gas at wellheads. Illustration by Tanyia Johnson/Rice University. That’s a terrible waste of energy. Courtesy of the Tour Group. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 18, 2014

The highest energy density for Li-CNT-F batteries, 4,113 Wh kg carbon ?1 Researchers at the University of Alberta are developing , and, via their spin-out AdvEn Solutions working to commercialize, a new high power- and -energy density battery system: lithium-carbon-fluorine (Li-C-F). 1 is presented as a red star.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

While these are easy to produce in metals such as copper and silver, they are difficult to introduce in aluminum because of its high “stacking fault energy.”. The formation of the 9R phase in aluminum is even more difficult because of its high stacking fault energy. earlier post ) or distortions in the crystal structure.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

A team from Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has developed a new practical, high-energy-capacity lithium-ion battery anode out of silicon by encapsulating Si microparticles (∼1–3 µm) using conformally synthesized cages of multilayered graphene.

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MARCH 14, 2017

A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge has reported the light-driven photoreforming of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin to H 2 using semiconducting cadmium sulfide quantum dots in alkaline aqueous solution. A paper on their work is published in the journal Nature Energy. Wakerley et al. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 23, 2010

The Aluminum-air battery, a metal-air battery system which uses a catalytic air cathode in combination with an electrolyte and an aluminum anode, offers a theoretical specific energy of 8.1 The work was published online 22 March in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. Energy Fuels , Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef901344k.

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JULY 1, 2019

The research, published in the journal Joule , builds on innovations first reported in Science in 2017 by the same research group at the University of California San Diego and the university spinout South 8 Technologies. Department of Energy under the Battery500 Consortium. Yang et al. 2019.06.008.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland, Imperial College London and University College London have devised a synthetic metabolic pathway for producing renewable propane from engineered E. coli strain to increase propane yield, although the amounts are still far too low for commercialization. coli bacteria.

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JUNE 8, 2014

Researchers at the University of Maryland, with colleagues at the University of Illinois at Chicago, report on a new method for expanding graphite for use as a superior anode for sodium-ion batteries in a paper in Nature Communications. Galvanostatic studies showed that expanded graphite can deliver a high reversible capacity of 284?mAh?g

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

And energy efficiency is a toss-up, depending on the images being displayed. This year, OLED will get a big boost in all three of those metrics, when blue phosphorescent OLED (PHOLED) materials become commercially available. Universal Display Corp. And then you have to consider how today’s OLED displays are structured.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Researchers affiliated with Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea, and Stanford University have demonstrated the feasibility of a next-generation hybrid anode for high-capacity Li-on batteries using silicon-nanolayer-embedded graphite/carbon. Nature Energy 1 Article number: 16113 doi: 10.1038/nenergy.2016.113.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Rolls Royce, the manufacturer of both luxurious motorcars and commercial aviation jet engines, has completed its first test run of a hydrogen-powered jet engine. To the astonishment of some readers, Rolls Royce is not only a luxury vehicle maker but also a leader in the commercial aviation industry. What do you think of the article?

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JULY 16, 2022

The direct participants will closely cooperate with each other through numerous planned collaborations, and with more than 300 external partners, such as universities, research organisations and SMEs across Europe. It is an indispensable component for the diversification of energy sources and the green transition.

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MAY 4, 2009

Researchers at Iowa State University are proposing dissolving waste polystyrene (PS) in biodiesel for use as a diesel engine fuel as a mechanism for energy recovery from the waste plastic. billion tons of commercial and industrial wastes each year that also contains a considerable quantity of plastics. Credit: ACS.

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

Tokamaks, which use magnets to contain the high-temperature plasma in which atomic nuclei fuse and release energy, have captured the spotlight in recent months, due to tremendous advances in superconducting magnets. Zap Energy ’s FuZE-Q reactor, scheduled to be completed in mid-2022, bypasses the need for costly and complex magnetic coils.

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MAY 19, 2014

A new review article in the journal Science highlights emerging opportunities to increase the transformation of lignin to value-added products—i.e., lignin valorization. At the same time, federal agencies and industry are funding research to simplify the process of taking biomass to fuels. —Arthur Ragauskas. Ragauskas, et al.,

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AUGUST 6, 2011

The team also suggested that algae systems can be either net energy positive or negative depending on the specific combination of cultivation and conversion processes used. This is because some crops are more easily converted into energy carriers than others, and this was not included in the previous paper’s system boundaries.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

A research team from University of Western Ontario, McMaster University and Beijing Computational Science Research Center has developed an effective synthesis method to produce isolated single platinum (Pt) atoms and clusters for use as catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in water splitting to produce hydrogen.

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APRIL 23, 2017

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have used waste glass bottles and a low-cost chemical process to fabricate nanosilicon anodes for high-performance lithium-ion batteries. Coating the silicon nanoparticles with carbon to improve their stability and energy storage properties.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2013

As part of an ongoing effort to improve commercial scale algae biofuel production, a group of scientists, led by crude oil producer Sapphire Energy, Inc., The article provides a comprehensive study of the parasite challenge facing crop protection for scaled algae cultivation in open-pond systems. of Sapphire Energy; Peter M.

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JULY 26, 2017

Toyota, which has been working on solid-state batteries for EVs for a number of years ( earlier post ), is in the news with a report by the Wall Street Journal that it will be ready to commercialize a solid-state battery by 2022. However, there remain a number of unresolved issues precluding commercialization at this point.

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AUGUST 16, 2013

Korea), Georgia Institute of Technology, and Dong-Eui University (S. The power density of a commercialized low-temperature SOFC system developed by researchers at the University of Maryland and Redox Power is also more than 2W cm -2 , earlier post.). Scientific Reports 3, Article number: 2426 doi: 10.1038/srep02426.

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MARCH 15, 2020

In an open-access review paper published in Nature Nanotechnology , researchers at the University of California San Diego offer a research roadmap that includes four challenges that need to be addressed in order to advance all-solid-state batteries to commercialization. New tools for in operando diagnosis and characterization.

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MARCH 2, 2016

In the study, published in the journal Nature Energy , Noel Melton, Jonn Axsen and Daniel Sperling conduct a media analysis to show how society’s attention has skipped among alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) technology between 1980 and 2013, including methanol, natural gas, plug-in electric, hybrid electric, hydrogen and biofuels. Melton et al.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

From this, it was revealed that the EV maker has been in regular contact with several key officials from Ontario, such as Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade Vic Fedeli, and Minister of Energy Todd Smith, to name a few. One of the email’s recipients was reportedly Musk.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016

A team at Purdue University has used pollens as the basis for carbon architectures for anodes in energy storage devices. Solid, dense carbon particles provides high energy density to the rechargeable batteries. Findings showed the cattail pollens performed better than bee pollen. —Tang and Pol. —Vilas Pol.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

Hacettepe University , in Ankara. Commercial trucks already have guard bars on the back to prevent such accidents, so instead of looking to improve trucks, Bayhan decided to build an attachment for cars. The outer layer is made of energy-absorbing material, and the second layer is made of metal. Bayhan, who lives in ?zmit,

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nm), the energy conversion efficiency and apparent quantum yield reaches ~8.75% and ~20%, respectively—the highest values ever reported for one-step visible-light driven photocatalytic overall pure water splitting. The work was supported by the Fuel Cell Technologies Office of the US Department of Energy and Emissions Reduction Alberta.

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AUGUST 1, 2011

Researchers at Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, have improved the performance of sodium-ion batteries ( earlier post ) by using tailor-made carbon materials with hierarchical porosity for the anode instead of common carbon-based anode materials. Energy Environ. Advance Article doi: 10.1039/C1EE01744F. Wenzel et al.

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JANUARY 6, 2020

While still in their early stages, quantum systems have the potential to be exponentially more powerful than today’s leading classical computing systems and promise to revolutionize research in materials, chemistry, high-energy physics, and across the scientific spectrum. —Raphael Pooser. Parks, Jacek Jakowski, Shirley V.

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JULY 30, 2023

Company researchers were encouraged to look for oil substitutes, pursuing any manner of energy that didn’t involve petroleum. The battery’s performance was also unprecedented: It was both rechargeable and very high in energy output. Goodenough at the University of Oxford was the next scientist to pick up the baton.

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OCTOBER 27, 2015

Researchers from the University of Waterloo and General Motors Global Research and Development Center have developed a new electrode material for Li-ion batteries that leverages the strong covalent interactions that occur between silicon, sulfur, defects and nitrogen. All capacities reported are based on the total mass of SG, c-PAN and Si.)

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OCTOBER 8, 2013

Commercial production of cellulosic biofuel via fermentation pathways has been hampered by inefficient fermentation of xylose and the toxicity of acetic acid, which constitute substantial portions of cellulosic biomass. cerevisiae to consume xylose more efficiently. The buildup of acetic acid also killed off much of the yeast.

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AUGUST 27, 2010

A team at Penn State University has demonstrated that a previously developed method employing ionic liquids (ILs) together with a nonpolar solvent such as toluene can effect a separation of bitumen from oil sands in the Western US at ambient temperatures (~25 °C), although with greater difficulty than Canadian oil sands.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Yi Cui at Stanford University have demonstrated a new proof-of-concept lithium metal-free battery with high specific energy consisting of a lithium sulfide (Li 2 S)/mesoporous carbon composite cathode and a silicon (Si) nanowire anode. A paper on the novel battery was published online 25 February in the ACS journal Nano Letters.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a team of Stanford University engineers has for the first time built a tiny computer with 178 transistors made from carbon nanotubes, a semiconductor material that may replace silicon in computer chips. The research was led by Stanford professors Subhasish Mitra and H.S. Philip Wong.

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