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Pilbara Minerals and China’s Ganfeng agree to study for lithium chemical plant – ET Auto

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Australia’s Pilbara Minerals has agreed to a study with Chinese customer Ganfeng Lithium on options to build a 32,000 metric-ton-per-year lithium conversion facility in a country yet to be decided, the companies said on Monday.

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New catalyst improves conversion of CO2 to syngas

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The high density of loosely bound, energetic d-electrons in molybdenum disulfide facilitates charge transfer, driving the reduction of the carbon dioxide, said Salehi-Khojin, principal investigator on the study. Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Catalysts Fuels' Paaren Graduate Fellowship.

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Study finds hands-free just as distracting as handheld mobile phone use behind the wheel

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Talking hands-free on a mobile phone while driving is just as distracting as a conversation using a hand-held phone, according to a recent study by researchers at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia. The study is published in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. Asbridge et al.

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ORNL team discovers mechanism behind direct ethanol-to-hydrocarbon conversion; implications for energy efficiency and cost of upgrading

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Uncovering the mechanism behind the reaction helps support the potential economic viability of ORNL’s own direct biofuel-to-hydrocarbon conversion approach. This has renewed interest in the conversion of ethanol to hydrocarbon blend-stock and other industrial chemicals. The mechanism of ethanol conversion is still being debated. …

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Researchers propose reason for capacity loss in metal-oxide battery materials

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Now, researchers studying an electrode made of an inexpensive and nontoxic iron-oxide material called magnetite have proposed a scenario—described in an open-access paper in Nature Communications —that explains why. Magnetite, among other conversion-type electrode materials (i.e., However, their capacity fades very rapidly.

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Ionic Liquids for Conversion of Biomass to Sugars or HMF Without Additional Catalysts

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The results, they say, are broadly relevant to reactions involving the use of IL-H 2 O mixtures (as solvents, reactants, or catalysts), including, but not limited to, organic catalysis, electrochemistry, and biomass processing or conversion. Article Yuetao Zhang, Hongbo Du, Xianghong Qian and Eugene Y.-X. As a result, Zhang et al.

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MIT researchers propose mechanism for overcoming bottleneck in electroreduction of CO2

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The findings could spur progress on developing a variety of materials and designs for electrochemical carbon dioxide conversion systems. There are several ways to do such conversions, including electrochemical, thermocatalytic, photothermal, or photochemical processes—each with their own problems or challenges.

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