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Taiwan team engineers E. coli to produce n-butanol from glycerol

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Researchers at Feng Chia University in Taiwan have engineered the bacterium Escherichia coli to produce n-butanol from crude glycerol—a byproduct of the production of biodiesel. In an open-access paper in the journal Biotechnology for Biofuels , they report that under microaerobic conditions, the engineered strain produced 6.9

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Researchers use graphite positive electrodes in high-capacity rechargeable lithium/chlorine batteries

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In an earlier study, the researchers reported ∼3.5 The high surface area and large pore volume of aCNS in the positive electrode facilitated NaCl or LiCl deposition and trapping of Cl 2 for reversible NaCl/Cl 2 or LiCl/Cl 2 redox reactions and battery discharge/charge cycling. 2c07826.

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Nanodiamonds enable efficient hydrogen purification

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ShanghaiTech University (China) and National Central University (Taiwan) were involved in state-of-the-art materials characterizations. Sivaniah is the founder of OOYOO , a start-up which aims to be instrumental in commercializing membrane technology for a zero-carbon future. Pournaghshband Isfahani, A.

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Researchers provide evidence for spillover effect in activated carbon systems for hydrogen storage

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An MIT-led team of researchers from Taiwan and the US have successfully analyzed the performance of a class of materials considered a promising candidate for hydrogen storage: activated carbon that incorporates a platinum catalyst, allowing the hydrogen atoms can bond directly to the surface of carbon particles and then be released when needed.

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Improving the Charge-Discharge Capacity and Cycleability of Carbon Electrodes for Li-ion Batteries

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GMP40 (60:40 weight ratio of mixed mesophase pitch carbon and phenolic resin) produced the best results. However, carbon remains the predominant commercial anode material solution at this point. Some studies have demonstrated that carbon coating of graphite improves the anode performance in LIBs. Credit: ACS, Lin et al.

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Carbon-coated Hollow Tin Oxide Nanospheres Show Strong Performance as Li-ion Anode Material

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Illustration of the carbon-coated SnO 2 hollow nanospheres in solvothermal synthesis with different thicknesses of SnO 2 shell. Researchers at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan have synthesized tin oxide (SnO 2 ) hollow nanospheres covered with a carbon layer for anode material in lithium-ion batteries.

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UK Carbon Trust report says fuel cell vehicles could take more than 30% of mid-sized car market by 2050

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Ranges of automotive fuel cell system costs at mass manufactured volume using technology from three UK companies supported by the Carbon Trust. Source: Carbon Trust. It would also reduce global carbon emissions from vehicles by an additional 260 million tonnes per year by 2050—equivalent to the current annual emissions of Taiwan.

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