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UT Austin team develops new family of high-capacity anode materials: Interdigitated Eutectic Alloys

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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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DOE and NSF Award $2.5M for Research into New Materials for Photosplitting Water to Produce Hydrogen

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Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have received about $2.5 Gamba will collaborate on the endeavor, which encompasses two grants from the National Science Foundation ($1.4 Gamba will collaborate on the endeavor, which encompasses two grants from the National Science Foundation ($1.4 Charles Mullins.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. The thumb drive was all that—and more. Tan diligently saved money to pay for driving lessons.

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EV ute overload: The electric pickups coming soon

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Being built at a new Gigafactory in Austin Texas, first US Cybertruck deliveries are scheduled for production late in 2023, having been delayed on multiple occasions. The so-called H2X Warrego clearly won’t be cheap – about $190,000 – when a limited run of 250 vehicles is due in mid-2023. Will it come to Australia?

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UTA researchers demonstrate one-step solar process to convert CO2 and H2O directly into renewable liquid hydrocarbon fuels

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Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have demonstrated a new solar process for the one-step, gas-phase conversion of CO 2 and H 2 O to C 5+ liquid hydrocarbons and O 2 by operating the photocatalytic reaction at elevated temperatures and pressures. The process uses cheap and earth-abundant catalytic materials.

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Gas War: Biden Admin Decides Against Refilling Dwindling Oil Reserves, Citing High Prices

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The move follows a rally in crude prices, with US benchmark West Texas Intermediate on Tuesday breaking above $85 a barrel for the first time since October. Cheap gasoline also doesn’t seem to have been something the current administration was particularly concerned with until recently. We will continue to monitor market dynamics.”

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