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Tesla Sets the Charge: Universal EV Standards in the Making

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Volkswagen Group: VW's 2025 models will feature NACS, with development of adapters also underway. The Future of EV Charging Tesla's push for a universal charging standard marks a significant advancement in making EV charging more user-friendly and accessible.

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Harish Lakshman to take over as Chairman of Rane Group after L Ganesh retires on March 31 – ET Auto

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Ganesh has decided to retire as Chairman from the operating entities of Rane Group , effective March 31, 2024. Ganesh became Chairman of Rane Group in November 2006. During his tenure, the group has grown from INR 1,050 crore to about INR 7,200 crore and enhanced the export sales from 12% to 24%, the company said.

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ECS announces 2023-2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship recipients

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Yaocai Bai is an R&D Associate Staff Scientist pursuing postdoctoral research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) under the supervision of Dr Ilias Belharouak in the Emerging and Solid-State Batteries Group. Yadong Yin at the University of California, Riverside, in 2017. Yuzhang Li, University of California, Los Angeles.

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How MIT’s Muriel Medard Pioneered the Universal Decoder

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As the head of the network coding group at the university’s Research Laboratory for Electronics , the IEEE Fellow led a team that created a silicon chip that eliminates the need for custom decoding hardware to spot signal errors. She returned to MIT as a faculty member in 2000.

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Kyushu University research group develops new method for creating highly efficient gold nanoparticle catalysts for fuel cells

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Credit: International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I²CNER), Kyushu University. A polybenzimidazole polymer supports the formation of gold nanoparticles with well-defined sizes on graphene. Click to enlarge. Creating small, well-controlled particles meant that we needed to focus on particle nucleation and particle growth.

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NEC, NEC TOKIN and Tohoku University develop spin-Seebeck thermoelectric device w/ 10x better conversion efficiency

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NEC Corporation, NEC TOKIN Corporation and TOHOKU UNIVERSITY have jointly created a thermoelectric (TE) device using the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) with conversion efficiency 10 times higher than a test module that was produced based on a multi-layered SSE technology published by the Tohoku University group in 2015.

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Computational first-principles approach identifies dozens of new platinum-group alloys

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The platinum-group metals (PGMs)—osmium, iridium, ruthenium, rhodium, platinum, and palladium—play essential roles in a wide variety of industrial applications. The study appears in the American Physical Society journal Physical Review X and is highlighted in a Viewpoint article in the journal Physics. DMR-0908753). Hart, G.L.W.,

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