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JANUARY 8, 2024

Among her achievements: She invented an inexpensive, battery-operated optical imaging system that can detect premalignant tissues—no biopsy required—to help prevent oral and cervical cancer. in 1990, she joined the University of Texas at Austin as a professor of biomedical engineering. After earning her Ph.D.

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JULY 20, 2018

Researchers at Linköping University and Umeå University in Sweden have developed a new and efficient way to use electrocatalysis to produce hydrogen gas from water using electrodes with nanotruss structures of iron oxide. at other areas, such as electrodes in batteries, in supercapacitors, and for use in photocatalysis.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

A research team led by Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute Of Science And Technology (DGIST) Professor Jong-Sung Yu in Korea, with colleagues at UC Berkeley and Xi’an Jiaotong University in China, has successfully developed a new catalyst synthesis method that can efficiently decompose water into oxygen and hydrogen using solar light.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Mercedes-Benz’ battery recycling subsidiary Licular GmbH—founded in 2021—is heading the consortium for LIBinfinity , a €17-million battery-recycling project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK).

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JUNE 2, 2018

A team from the University of Houston and Hunan Normal University in China has developed an active and durable oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalyst for water splitting that meets commercial crtieria for current densities at low overpotentials. to deliver 200 mA cm -2 , unsatisfactory for the commercial requirements of 1.8-2.4

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MAY 3, 2017

Electric vehicles aren't always associated with speed and performance, but researchers at North Carolina State University may have discovered a breakthrough to change those qualities inside their batteries. Of all things, water may hold the key to faster electric-car battery technology.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Vulcan Energy Resources will collaborate with DuPont Water Solutions,a leader in water filtration and purification, to test and to scale up Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) solutions for Vulcan’s Zero Carbon Lithium extraction process. Earlier post.). Francis Wedin, Managing Director. Stringfellow and Patrick F.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

New hydrogen production technology developed at the University of British Columbia (UBC) will be tested in a $7-million project between UBC, the government of Alberta and Alberta utility company ATCO. SMR still emits a significant amount of carbon dioxide and uses large quantities of water and energy.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The new EPIC project coordinated by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is aimed at accelerating the drying of high-quality electrodes for lithium-ion batteries, increasing the energy efficiency of this process and, hence, reducing the cost of production. EPIC is funded by the Federal Ministry of Research with €3 million.

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JUNE 10, 2022

Schmalz GmbH and Viscom AG are working together with researchers from RWTH Aachen University, TU Braunschweig and the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films (IST) for three years to research and develop the necessary processes. —Sebastian Wolf, Chief Operating Officer Battery Cell at Volkswagen AG.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

University of Maryland (UMD) and US Army Research Lab (ARL) researchers are spearheading a public-private sector collaboration to further develop a lithium-ion battery that would be safer to operate and less costly to dispose of than those currently available on the market. A full lithium-ion battery of 2.3 Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Lithium metal batteries with solid electrolytes are lightweight, inflammable, pack a lot of energy, and can be recharged very quickly, but they have been slow to develop due to mysterious short circuiting and failure. When that happens, the battery fails.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2022

One of the ways in which it is supporting the project is by sharing scientific findings on the impact of lithium mining on water resources in Chile’s Salar de Atacama.

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OCTOBER 2, 2022

In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” He imagined a shower head that would sense when the person showering moved out from under the stream of water. You’d waste more water than you saved.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, Monash University (Australia) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia have recently discovered a new, efficient way to extract lithium and other metals and minerals from water. million smartphones.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

ExxonMobil will invest $15 million as a leadership member of the University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute to pursue technologies to help meet growing energy demand while reducing environmental impacts and the risk of climate change. This research will complement ExxonMobil’s recently announced partnership with FuelCell Energy, Inc.

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MAY 9, 2023

This funding enables a range of solutions to be developed, including hydrogen fuel cells, hydrogen combustion and battery electric versions. Project partners include: University of Bristol, Customer Interconnect Ltd, API Capacitors Ltd. Hydrogen is a clean fuel, producing only water when burned.

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MAY 16, 2017

Researchers at the University of Houston have developed a catalyst—composed of easily available, low-cost materials and operating far more efficiently than previous catalyst—that can split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Our discovery may lead to a more economic approach for hydrogen production from water electrolysis.

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MARCH 20, 2019

24M CTO Naoki Ota will present the Dual Electrolyte System at the International Battery Seminar & Exhibit in Fort Lauderdale, Florida later this month. 24M CTO Naoki Ota will present the Dual Electrolyte System at the International Battery Seminar & Exhibit in Fort Lauderdale, Florida later this month.

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MARCH 31, 2021

Livent will supply the lithium directly to the BMW Group’s battery cell manufacturers from 2022 on. By sourcing lithium from a second supplier, we are securing requirements for production of our current fifth generation of battery cells. The value of the multi-year contract will total around €285 million.

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

Researchers at Changchun University of Science and Technology in China have developed a nanobox strategy to improve the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries. Li–S batteries theoretically offer a specific energy density of 2600 Wh kg ?1 S battery due to binding polysulfides and chemical interactions.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

The discovery, published in Nature , challenges the conventional belief that lithium metal batteries fail because of the growth of the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) between the lithium anode and the electrolyte. The findings could pave the way for bringing rechargeable lithium metal batteries from the lab to the market.

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JULY 14, 2022

Demand for lithium—a critical material used in batteries for electric vehicles, grid-scale electricity storage, phones, and laptops—has grown rapidly in recent years, with global demand expected to increase 500% by 2050. Rice University – Team LiSED: “Lithium Selective ElectroDialysis”.

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AUGUST 23, 2022

Rare-earth metals are indispensable for many technical products, from smartphones, laptops, batteries, electromotors, and wind turbines, to catalysts. Rare-earth-metal ions are also found in bodies of water and in effluent. One reason for this is that they are usually hydrated, meaning that they are bound to water molecules.

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AUGUST 7, 2017

The Army is working to replace all alkaline and nickel metal hydride field batteries with Li-ion batteries. “ The Army is developing hybrid vehicles for use on the battlefield, and that means they will also use Li-ion batteries. We want to push the voltage of Li-ion batteries higher. ”.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

Critical materials are used in many products important to the US economy and energy technologies, such as rare-earth elements used to manufacture high-strength magnets for offshore wind-turbine generators and lithium and cobalt in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. Partners: American Lithium Corporation, DuPont Water Solutions.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries power much of our digital and mobile lifestyle. V) is too narrow to support most of the electrochemical couples used in Li-ion batteries. V versus Li, depending on pH value) far above where most Li-ion battery anode materials operate. A paper on their work is published in the journal Science.

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MAY 10, 2019

A team of researchers led by a group from the University of Maryland has. The cell is based on an anion conversion–intercalation mechanism that combines the high energy densities of conversion reactions, the excellent reversibility of intercalation and the improved safety of aqueous batteries. volts versus Li/Li +. Yang et al.

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DECEMBER 17, 2017

An international research team from Tsinghua University, MIT and Argonne National Laboratory has discovered a series of novel lithium titanate hydrates that show better electrochemical performances compared to all the Li 2 O–TiO 2 materials reported so far—including those after nanostructuring, doping and/or coating. —Wang et al.

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APRIL 1, 2011

Example of a lithium-water rechargeable battery. Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. A typical Li-air battery discharges at 2.5-2.7

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MARCH 20, 2011

Estimated extractable power (GW) from the difference of salinity in different countries, based on flow of river water emptying into the ocean. The mixing entropy battery is simple to fabricate and could contribute significantly to renewable energy in the future, they suggest. Credit: ACS, La Mantia et al. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 10, 2020

New-type noble metal aerogels were developed for outstanding pH-universal electrocatalysis toward hydrogen evolution reaction and oxygen reduction reaction. Universal HER and ORR Electrocatalysis.” These findings largely span the application territory of NMAs for fuel cells, green hydrogen production and many more. Credit: Wiley-VCH.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Tropical conditions can cause systems to overheat or prevent high-density lithium batteries from recharging,” says Melanie Olsen, who is a project director of the Australian Institute of Marine Science’s (AIMS) ReefWorks , a technology testing and evaluation facility in northern Australia.

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JANUARY 24, 2014

RMIT University (Australia) researchers have developed a concept battery based on storing protons produced by splitting water—a reversible fuel cell with integrated solid proton storage electrode. The concept integrates a composite metal hydride–nafion electrode into a reversible proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

The study describes a previously unknown mechanism by which lithium gets trapped in batteries, thus limiting the number of times it can be charged and discharged at full power. By making the silicon porous and limiting its capacity to 1,000 mAh/g, the team’s test batteries provided stable cycling with still-excellent capacity.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2014

A new material developed at Rice University based on molybdenum disulfide (Mo S 2) exposes as much of the edge as possible, making it efficient as both a catalyst for hydrogen production and for energy storage. It catalyzes the separation of hydrogen from water when exposed to a current. Courtesy of the Tour Group. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a novel process to clean coal mine drainage and extract rare-earth elements from it. The TEP process uses the alkalinity and filtering capacity of stabilized flue gas desulfurization (sFGD) material or water treatment plant (WTP) sludge to remediate CMD waters and extract REEs.

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