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U Waterloo team identifies key reaction in sodium-air batteries; implications for improving Li-air

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Chemists at the University of Waterloo have identified the key reaction that takes place in sodium-air batteries. Understanding how sodium-oxygen batteries work has implications for developing the more powerful lithium-oxygen battery, which has been proposed by some as the “holy grail” of electrochemical energy storage.

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Radar Technology Pioneer Merrill Skolnik Dies at 94

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Skolnik began his career in 1955 at MIT ’s Lincoln Laboratory. He left MIT in 1959 to join Electronic Communications, now part of Raytheon. In 1944 Skolnik joined the American Institute of Electrical Engineers , one of IEEE’s predecessor societies. in engineering from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore.

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