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A team from the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois, with colleagues from the University of Birmingham and Aarhus University, have developed a nanosized bio-Pd/C catalyst for upgrading algal bio-oil. Bio-Pd/C resulted in similar catalytic activities as commercial Pd/C. —Kunwar et al.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

On behalf of the Australian Government, ARENA has provided A$5 million (US$4 million) in funding to Wollongong-based AquaHydrex to develop commercially its new class of electrolyzer to produce cheap hydrogen from splitting water. In the future, there will be increasing amounts of surplus renewable energy when it is sunny or windy.

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Researchers from the UK, China and Japan have combined gelatin with iron and magnesium to create an electrocatalyst that performs almost as well as a commercial platinum catalyst, but is significantly less expensive. The activity is comparable to commercial platinum catalysts and shows improved stability with reduced crossover effects.

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KAIST/Korea Polytechnic University The paper doesn't directly address the cost of the MHD, and with three motors and some other electronics in it, it's not likely to be super cheap. It's also possible to build your own MHD device for cheap , if you know what you're doing.

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In contrast, the LSP method not only saves energy but uses aluminum, a cheap and abundant metal. She and her colleagues, including scientists from the University of Maryland in College Park and DENSsolutions, in Delft, the Netherlands, reported their findings in Nature Materials.

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The material could allow hydrogen to be stored in a cheap and practical way for transport applications, the company says. Credit: ACS, Kurban et al. Click to enlarge. Many are also difficult to handle in that they degrade rapidly in air.

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Researchers at the University of California, Davis have developed a process for the production of branched C 7 –C 10 hydrocarbons in the gasoline volatility range from biomass-derived levulinic acid with good yield, operating under relatively mild conditions, with short reaction times. Source: Mascal et al. Click to enlarge. per gallon.

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University research groups are also launching tiny, standardized cube satellites (CubeSats) into LEO for research and demonstration purposes. That may be because one of the temptations of LEO is the ability of relatively cheap new hardware to do smaller jobs. Satellites are becoming smaller.

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Alexander Gabay, a researcher at the University of Delaware, states flatly: “I am skeptical that any non-rare-earth permanent magnet could be used in a synchronous traction motor in the near future.” Ferrite magnets, based on a form of iron oxide, are cheap and account for nearly 30 percent of the permanent-magnet market by sales.

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The researchers began by using commercially available reagent kit for analyzing glucose levels. This prototype offers a cheap way to analyze blood samples remotely. The system can be adapted to analyze any biochemical substances in the blood by simply modifying the reagent and spectral wavelength that's used.

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The clean technology company Danish Power Systems (DPS), with partners at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, Czech Republic, reports the best operating stability for high-temperature polymer fuel cells (HTPEMFC) yet. μV h −1 for a reference membrane.

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Researchers at Zhejiang University of Technology in China have fabricated magnesium borate (of the form Mg 2 B 2 O 5 ) nanowire-enabled poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)-based solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) for solid-state lithium-ion batteries (SSLIBs). Moreover, the polymer electrolyte also has relative stability to pair with Li metal anode.

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Similarly in 2009 and 2010, the US Department of Energy (DOE) funded the University of North Carolina – Energy Frontier Research Center (UNC EFRC) and the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, respectively.

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The European Union (EU) market, which is home to about 30% of algae activity, will be limited initially by the industry’s focus on university research, and later by insufficient access to water, land, and nutrient sources. Pilot- and demonstration-scale facilities are beginning to break ground across the country. the Synthetic Genomics Inc.

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Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new family of anode materials that can double the charge capacity of lithium-ion battery anodes. Then, you can reduce the microstructure by rolling it, which is an extraordinarily cheap step to convert a microstructure into a nanostructure.

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Now residential and commercial buildings can be outfitted with roofing tiles that double as solar panels, or with rooftop boxes like this low-profile unit that transforms gusts of wind into electric current.

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It’s almost 100% recyclable, but in commercial use is a fairly modern metal. Now, aluminum is increasingly important in electronics, particularly as a “green” component that’s cheap, widely available and environmentally benign. Wei Wang, Weimin Liu, I-Ya Chang, Lindsay A.

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One of the benefits of using print electronics is being able to mass-produce at a low cost, says Gregory Whiting at the University of Colorado, Boulder, one of the principal investigators of the team working on the sensors. With the new, cheap sensors, farmers will be able to collect data on their farms without worrying about the variability.

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Because of this, a commercial catalyst would require a huge amount of MOS 2. The idea was to understand the changes in the molecular structure of molybdenum disulfide, so that it can be a better catalyst for hydrogen production: closer to platinum in efficiency, but earth-abundant and cheap. Molly is dirt cheap and abundant.

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There won’t be Scotch tape on the final model,” says Costanzo , as he rearranges the gear in his lab at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), in Richmond. It is also intended to show off the sensor, which is the same type used for commercial electronic noses, or. The University of Manchester. But he does want to offer hope.

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From researcher to entrepreneur Moore received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1950 from the University of California, Berkeley. also in chemistry, in 1954 from Caltech , he began his career as a researcher in the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. After earning his Ph.D.,

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We’ve gotten very, very good at making things that are cheap and durable. Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Accenture Labs are putting this idea to the test with the design of a wireless heater that can warm up whatever’s placed inside of it when the heater is placed on a standard wireless charging pad.

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Installing and operating EV charging stations offers businesses and owners of commercial and industrial buildings a winning proposition. Businesses, hospitals, and universities that offer workplace EV charging can attract and retain employees , while retail districts and shopping centers can attract tenants and increase customer traffic.

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A team of researchers from the University of Houston and the California Institute of Technology has developed an active and durable earth-abundant transition metal dichalcogenide-based hybrid catalyst for water-splitting that exhibits high hydrogen evolution activity approaching the state-of-the-art platinum catalysts. c,e) Scale bar, 1 μm.

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Chemists at the University of Illinois report the development of a nickel-based homogeneous catalyst that could more effectively support the production of fuels and chemical feedstocks from biomass as well as improved liquefaction of coal. A paper on their work is published in the current issue of Science. —Sergeev and Hartwig.

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Large language models don’t come cheap While the power of large language models, like ChatGPT , has increased dramatically, the price of training such models has increased dramatically as well. For those of you as eager to pour through the entire 2023 Artificial Intelligence Index Report as I was, you can dive in here.

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Researchers at Rutgers University have developed a new noble metal-free catalyst—Ni 5 P 4 (nickel-5 phosphide-4)—performing on par with platinum for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in both strong acid and base. a commercial manufacturer of electrolyzers, to test Ni 5 P 4 as an appropriate HER catalyst.

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A team from Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has developed a new practical, high-energy-capacity lithium-ion battery anode out of silicon by encapsulating Si microparticles (∼1–3 µm) using conformally synthesized cages of multilayered graphene. —Stanford postdoc Kai Yan.

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The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars. Over time, however, the research focus in bidirectional EV applications shifted from the grid to homes and commercial buildings.

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A team of researchers from Kyoto University has demonstrated ion-exchanged MgFeSiO 4 as a feasible cathode material for use in high-energy-density rechargeable magnesium batteries. Moreover, the terrestrial abundance and melting point of elemental magnesium by far surpass that of lithium, translating to a cheap and safe battery system.

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If successful, the first commercialization of this technology is expected as early as 2018. For example, a team from the University of Waterloo earlier this year published a paper proposing a catalytic distillation process for the more energy efficient production of isooctane from isobutene (Goortani et al. ). Earlier post.).

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Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a novel strategy to improve the efficiency and performance of non-aqueous lithium-oxygen (Li-air) batteries. However, there are a number of formidable challenges facing their commercialization. The university will license the new “solar battery” to industry. Earlier post.).

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Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have synthesized a porous nano-silicon material from beach sand (SiO 2 ) via a highly scalable heat scavenger-assisted magnesiothermic—i.e., using a combination of heat and magnesium—reduction. Favors et al. Click to enlarge. …we

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A team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University has developed a high-rate, high-capacity and long-lived anode for Li-ion batteries comprising a yolk-shell nanocomposite of aluminum core (30 nm in diameter) and TiO 2 shell (~3 nm in thickness), with a tunable interspace (Al@TiO 2 , or ATO). —Li et al.

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None of the sodium Ion batteries are commercial yet, but serious competition for lithium could soon be on the way. Read the C&EN research here Lithium right now is very expensive and Sodium is quite cheap. Also sodium is universally available. ​ If you look at the Periodic table, Lithium and Sodium are similar metals.

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“For a good review of 5G bio-effects studies, see [Ken] Karipidis’s article that found ‘no confirmed evidence that low-level RF fields above 6 GHz such as those used by the 5G network are hazardous to human health.’” —Kenneth Foster, University of Pennsylvania In your opinion, is exposure assessment a solved problem? The list goes on.

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Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap. maintain a system as well as maintain and recover and investment on it that is fundamentally very cheap. Director, Manufacturing Research Center, Western Michigan University. Assistant Professor, Michigan State University.

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