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DOE awarding $19.4M to 22 advanced vehicle technologies projects; Mercedes-Benz, GM Li-S battery projects

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Among the awardees are Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America and GM, with separate projects on Li-sulfur batteries, as two of the fifteen Phase 1 “Battery Seedling” Projects. Research innovative iron-based materials for high energy cathodes for high energy lithium ion battery technologies. Penn State University Park.

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ARPA-E awards $175M to 68 novel clean energy OPEN 2021 projects

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This would eliminate the ionomer, which conducts ions, but also poisons catalyst sites and obstructs oxygen transport. University of Houston. The University of Houston seeks to create a class of battery that uses magnesium anodes instead of lithium and organic materials in place of transition metal-based cathodes.

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