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JULY 30, 2014

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) have identified molybdenum disulfide as a promising cost-effective substitute for noble metal catalysts for the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. A paper on their work is published in the journal Nature Communications. —Amirhossein Behranginia, co-author.

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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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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. Advance Article doi: 10.1039/C1EE01744F. Wenzel et al. Energy Environ.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

South Dakota State University was the lead institution for the more than $20-million project which began in 2007. An article on environmental mapping of biomass resources in the continental United States will also be published in that issue. The partnership was funded by the US Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office.

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MAY 5, 2012

Each article describes the details of the calculations for each step of harmonization. Each article took a slightly different approach, demonstrating the flexibility of the harmonization approach. —Heath and Mann. — JIE editor-in-chief Reid Lifset.

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APRIL 19, 2017

The voxels in the left cerebellar hemisphere survived the multiple comparison correction. The team recruited university students with either a few years’ or no driving experience and collected structural brain images for a whole-brain voxel-based morphometry (VBM) analysis to examine between-group differences in regional gray matter volume.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

This article is courtesy of Chris Johnston with EVPubs.com. For this comparison, we use the price of regular. For cost comparisons, we use an oil-change window of 7,500 miles. Thus, over our five-year operating-cost comparison between EVs and gas vehicles, the gas vehicle owner would change oil seven times. for premium.

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MARCH 21, 2017

Researchers led by a team from Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in Austria have shown that singlet oxygen ( 1 O 2 ) forms in the cathode of a Li–O 2 battery during discharge and from the onset charge, and that it is responsible for a major fraction of side products that cause fast ageing in the battery. —Mahne et al. 2017.36.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

A collaboration including researchers from Boston College, MIT, the University of Virginia and Clemson University have achieved a peak ZT (thermoelectric figure of merit) of 0.8 And a team from Northwestern University and the University of Michigan reported experimentally achieving a ZT of 1.7 The study by Yan et al.

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MARCH 23, 2010

With its low cost, low environmental impact and safety aspects, the Al-air system has potential to serve as a near-term power source for electric vehicles, according to a research team from The University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Energy Fuels , Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef901344k. Wang et al.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2015

For comparison, trains’ locomotives frequently have around 4,000 horsepower, while a typical car often has around 150 hp. More on that in a future article. Dr. Michael McDonald is an assistant professor of finance at Fairfield University and a frequent consultant to companies regarding capital structure decisions and investments.

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. I think this is the coolest technology of the last 20 years,” says Todd Austin , a hardware security expert at the University of Michigan, whose startup Agita Labs does a different form of secure computing in the Amazon and Microsoft clouds. “It

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MAY 20, 2014

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a novel nanometer scale ruthenium oxide (RuO 2 ) anchored graphene and CNT foam architecture (RGM) for high-performance supercapacitor electrodes. (a) Schematic illustration of the preparation process of RGM nanostructure foam. Source: UCR. Click to enlarge. Batteries'

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MARCH 29, 2015

Researchers at Dalhousie University (Canada) led by Dr. Jeff Dahn now report that Li[Ni 1/3 Mn 1/3 Co 1/3 ]O 2 (NMC111)/graphite and Li[Ni 0.42 Their work is published in a paper in an open access article in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society.

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

Later that year he joined Colorado State University in Fort Collins, as chair of its department of computer science. By comparison, in industry I knew I had a team I could give a broad description to and get the right thing the first time. This article appears in the November 2022 print issue as “Craig Partridge.”.

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JANUARY 16, 2011

Researchers at the University of Bradford (UK) are proposing a method for increasing the yield of middle distillates (such as car fuel, jet fuel, and diesel fuel) from the refinery by applying catalytic hydrotreating (HDT) to the full crude oil, rather than the now common application of hydrotreating processes to oil fractions a (i.e.,

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

But it paled in comparison to the destruction about to be unleashed. An abridged version of this article appears in the September 2023 print issue as “The Earthquake That Was Too Big to Measure.” The Great Kanto Earthquake was so large that the seismometer taking this reading stopped recording.

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MAY 4, 2009

Comparisons of NO x , CO, soot, and engine brake power using different PS blends with the factory-set injection timings. 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. Credit: ACS. Credit: ACS.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The first signs of a green revolution in the shareholder-investors universe are there, as investors have forced Dutch oil and gas major Shell to officially change its strategy, investing in more renewable energy and energy storage. Link to article: [link]. This development will impact the market within the next 24 months.

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JANUARY 28, 2023

For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. This is due to the 30 to 40 percent increase in emissions EVs create in comparison to manufacturing an ICE vehicle, mainly from its battery production.

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AUGUST 30, 2022

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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JUNE 6, 2010

Researchers at Feng Chia University in Taiwan have developed a procedure to prepare surface-modified mesophase pitch carbon to increase the charge-discharge capacity and cycleability of carbon electrodes for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Energy Fuels, Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef1004122.

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AUGUST 6, 2011

the amount of energy produced per energy consumed to deliver one functional unit) for each system, “ because this study evaluates many algae conversion options and it was desirable to make direct comparisons among dissimilar conversion systems. Environmental Science & Technology Article ASAP doi: /10.1021/es200760. times and 15.7

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MARCH 15, 2023

Team PluginIndia The Lithium mining FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) created by some paid media organizations and random YouTube channels is so bad, that many people read headlines of such articles and assume that Lithium mining is the worst thing in the world and is worse than extracting and refining 10,000 liters of oil used by an average ICE car.

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AUGUST 1, 2011

Ashok of Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India reports that adding dimethyl ether to an ethanol/diesel emulsion results in an increase in brake thermal efficiency and a decrease in specific fuel consumption (SFC), particulate matter, smoke density, and oxides of nitrogen compared to either the emulsion or a base diesel fuel.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

They calculated emissions for ten cities (or metropolitan regions), which vary in population from 432,000 to 9,519,000; comparisons are in per capita terms. Authors of the study included: Christopher Kennedy, University of Toronto. Julia Steinberger, University of Klagenfurt. Barrie Gasson, University of Cape Town.

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APRIL 27, 2014

Ce 0.02 (PO 4 ) 3 /C) measured at comparable current densities has been included for comparison. Shenoy & Nikhil Koratkar (2014) “Defect-induced plating of lithium metal within porous graphene networks,” Nature Communications 5, Article number: 3710 doi: 10.1038/ncomms4710. O 2 and Li 3 V 1.98 Mukherjee et al. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

C, in comparison with bare sulfur and sulfur–TiO 2 core–shell nanoparticles. Researchers at Stanford University and SLAC led by Stanford associate professor Yi Cui have used a sulfur–TiO 2 yolk–shell design for a cathode material for a lithium-sulfur battery that achieved an initial specific capacity of 1,030? Click to enlarge.

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MAY 26, 2010

Chemists at Brown University have synthesized novel core and shell palladium/iron-platinum (Pd/FePt) nanoparticles that use far less platinum yet perform more efficiently and last longer than commercially available pure-platinum catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in hydrogen fuel cells. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ja1024436.

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JANUARY 19, 2010

Terrestrial bioenergy feedstock crops such as switchgrass, canola and corn have lower environmental lifecycle impacts than algae in energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and water regardless of cultivation location, according to a new lifecycle assessment by researchers at the University of Virginia. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es902838n.

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MAY 1, 2009

Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) are proposing a new process for producing synfuel from biomass using concentrating solar energy as its main energy source. For comparison, they also modeled the production of methanol using only biomass as a fuel and also using coal as source of both carbon and energy.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. The ongoing discharge of ice into the ocean is a “fundamental process in the ice sheet mass-balance,” according to a 2021 article in Communications Earth & Environment by Humbert and her colleagues. However, Earth’s great ice sheets are always moving and evolving. Humbert, et al.

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JUNE 28, 2009

Researchers at Tsinghua University in China have shown that sugarcane juice is a good feedstock for biodiesel production, when used to support the growth of the alga Chlorella protothecoides by heterotrophic fermentation. In comparison to yeast fermentation for ethanol production, microalgae accumulate oils as intracellular products.

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AUGUST 24, 2016

A team at the Ohio State University has developed a membrane that regulates bi-directional ion transport across it as a function of its redox state and that could be used as a programmable smart membrane separator in future supercapacitors and redox flow batteries. —Herya and Sundaresan. plugin EVs to Tesla’s 85 kWh battery pack).

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JULY 19, 2009

Using biodiesel in construction vehicles offers promising environmental benefits in terms of reduced tailpipe emissions as well as reductions in fuel cycle emissions of selected pollutants, according to a new study by researchers at North Carolina State University. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es802916u. Christopher Frey and William J.

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APRIL 4, 2023

He and colleagues at University of California, San Diego delivered what he called an “an open and transparent assessment” of Google’s reinforcement learning approach. Kahng declined to speak with IEEE Spectrum for this article, but he spoke to engineers last week at ISPD, which was held virtually. The results were mixed.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

Yaghi (then at University of Michigan, now UCLA). BASF researchers contacted him after reading his 1999 article in the journal Nature and have been collaborating with Professor Yaghi since then on the synthesis of metal-organic frameworks. MOFs were discovered toward the end of the 1990s by US chemist Omar M. Earlier post.)

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