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Purdue researchers convert packing peanuts into anode materials for Li-ion batteries; outperforming graphite

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The work, performed by postdoc Vinodkumar Etacheri, Professor Vilas Pol and undergraduate chemical engineering student Chulgi Nathan Hong, is being presented at the 249 th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition in Denver. These carbonaceous electrodes could also be used for rechargeable sodium-ion batteries.

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Physicists Spin Up Quantum Tornadoes

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These wave-shaped clouds, seen over an apartment complex in Denver, Colo., We start with a Bose-Einstein condensate, 1 million sodium atoms that share one and the same quantum-mechanical wave function”, says Martin Zwierlein , a professor of physics at MIT. “The exhibit what’s called Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. Rick Duffy/Wikipedia.

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