Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Researchers at the Université de Sherbrooke, Canada, with colleagues at the Université de Toulouse, France, have developed a process for the direct production of levulinates from cheap residual lignocellulosic biomass using an affordable homogeneous catalyst. A paper on their work is published in Fuel. wt%, 83 wt%, and 73 wt% using ?-cellulose,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2015

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. —Stan Chou. People want a non-platinum catalyst. Chou, Na Sai, Ping Lu, Eric N.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2018

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have now developed a method to use this cheap and abundant waste byproduct to build a components for lithium-sulfur batteries. Our research demonstrates the potential of using industrial paper-mill byproducts to design sustainable, low-cost electrode materials for lithium-sulfur batteries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2019

This energy sector is primarily driven by the need for low-cost with reasonably long cycle-life energy storage technology, for which the lead-acid battery is well suited. —Ferg et al. Schuldt, J. 2019.03.063.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2018

A low-cost, nanostructured composite material developed by researchers at UC Santa Cruz has shown performance comparable to Pt/C as a catalyst for the electrochemical splitting of water to produce hydrogen. An efficient, low-cost catalyst is essential for realizing the promise of hydrogen as a clean, environmentally friendly fuel.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This prototype offers a cheap way to analyze blood samples remotely. The developed platform offers the advantages of automation, low cost, portability, simple instrumentation, flexibility, and an easily accessible interface," she says. "The What's more, the device could yield accurate results in just half a minute.

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Cars That Think

MAY 18, 2023

Many of the agencies and organizations launching the latest generation of low-cost satellites haven’t addressed the biggest security issues they face, researchers wrote in one review of LEO security in 2022. That may be because one of the temptations of LEO is the ability of relatively cheap new hardware to do smaller jobs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The most effective catalysts have been the noble metal elements such as platinum, palladium, rhodium, and ruthenium, which are a prohibitively expensive resource when required in large quantities. The work thus opens the possibility of replacing the normally used noble metal catalysts with cobalt. and Hanson, S. doi: 10.1002/anie.201208739.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2015

It is promising to use rGO-based slurry to continuously produce large-scale, low-cost, and bi-functional rGO coated separator for high-performance Li-S batteries. —Lin et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2017

Researchers at KAUST have developed and used a novel way of increasing the chemical reactivity of a two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide material to produce a cheap and effective catalyst for water splitting to produce hydrogen. This technique may also have potential benefits for other manufacturing industries. —Lain-Jong Li.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2016

The new catalyst also offers a competitive, cheap alternative to catalysts that rely on more expensive, precious materials, such as iridium oxide (IrO 2 ) or ruthenium oxide (RuO 2 ). Water splitting is considered one of the most promising strategies to produce chemical fuels such as hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

Scientists at the University of Delaware are developing a new low-cost material for hydrogen storage—carbonized chicken feathers (CCFF)—that they say could meet the DOE requirements for hydrogen storage and are competitive with carbon nanotubes and metal hydrates at a tiny fraction of their cost. Wool, University of Delaware.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Electricity is produced from the oxidation of hydrogen in low-temperature fuel cells, but the best catalyst is platinum, a precious metal of low abundance. A burgeoning effort by chemists studying many areas of catalysis has focused on ‘cheap metals for noble tasks’. Tianbiao Liu, Daniel L. DuBois and R.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

It is a simple, low-cost approach that can be applied to a broad range of alloy systems with various working ions such as Li, Na, or Mg. Then, you can reduce the microstructure by rolling it, which is an extraordinarily cheap step to convert a microstructure into a nanostructure. —Karl Kreder. Kreder, III, Brian T.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2016

The method can be applied to other electrode materials, too, making energy-dense, low-cost battery materials a realistic possibility. There are huge challenges associated with using low-cost,micrometre-sized Si source materials. —Yi Cui. Here we introduce a method to encapsulate Si microparticles (∼1–3 µm).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2014

Herein, we propose a facile and low cost alternative to production of nano-Si with excellent electrochemical performance using a highly abundant, non-toxic, and low cost Si precursor: sand. . … Recently, magnesiothermic reduc- tion has gained attention due its much lower operating temperatures (~650 ?C). Favors et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2014

Batteries using a combination of ion-exchanged MgFeSiO 4 and a magnesium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide–triglyme electrolyte system represent a prototype for a low-cost, high-energy-density rechargeable magnesium battery in which no toxic or explosive components are used, the researchers concluded. —Orikasa et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

In this topic, ARPA-E seeks to develop a new generation of ultra-high energy density, low-cost battery technologies for long electric range plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and electric vehicles (EVs). Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2016

Thus, they can be hauled from natural deposits at low cost and used without major processing if sufficiently pure. Altogether, the natural ore pentlandite is a highly abundant, cheap, robust and highly efficient electrocatalyst for the HER reaction that will allow for a significant boost of non-noble metal catalysts.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

LanzaTech, founded in 2005, has developed a novel gas-liquid fermentation process that produces fuels and chemicals from gas resources and is the first company to successfully demonstrate production of fuel-grade ethanol from steel mill gases. So here our isobutene would allow us to integrate this very cheap fossil component into the fuel.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This is a shame, because it was a shockingly cheap $299. Thanks to Luxonis superfans, the Kickstarter campaign was fully funded in about eight minutes, and the super-early bird version of the robot is sold out. As of now-ish, Rae has more than 400 backers and is nearing $200,000 on Kickstarter, close to 10x-ing its goal.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2015

While some specially designed 3D porous graphene networks show good pore connectivity and conductivity, large-scale and low-cost fabrication of such graphene networks remains a challenge. Our designer carbon is simple to make, relatively cheap and meets all of the critical requirements for high-performance electrodes.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2015

Currently, renewable hydrogen may be produced from water by electrolysis with either low efficiency alkaline electrolyzers that suffer 50–65% losses, or by more efficient acidic electrolyzers using expensive rare platinum group metal catalysts (Pt). Resources. —Charles Dismukes. Laursen, K. Patraju, M. Whitaker, M. Retuerto, T.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2018

The researchers believe this new type of photoelectrode is not only cheap to produce, but can also be recreated on a larger scale for mass and worldwide use. However further work is required to investigate and improve slow charge carrier dynamics and low light absorption challenges of LaFeO 3 photoelectrodes. —Pawar and Tahir.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have developed a low-cost, stable, effective catalyst made from earth-abundant molybdenum and common soybeans (MoSoy). Source: BNL. Click to enlarge. NSLS and CFN are also supported by the DOE Office of Science.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Bill likes his car and is resourceful, so he got a Blink card and ChargePoint card and an EVGO card and he makes do. Access to a 120V outlet at work is the simple, reliable, low -cost solution for most commuters to get home. Some argue it’s so easy and so cheap employers should just do it. Let’s be clear on the benefits.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

aligned with the low-cost systems engineering and. This is a major achievement, which is one more step toward developing cheap and robust technology to harvest solar energy as chemical fuel. ”. This technology will advance side by side with new initiatives to improve and lower the cost of photovoltaics. Reece, Jonathan A.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2011

The material could allow hydrogen to be stored in a cheap and practical way for transport applications, the company says. Many are also difficult to handle in that they degrade rapidly in air. —Professor Stephen Bennington, lead scientist on the project for STFC and Chief Scientist at Cella. Zeynep Kurban, Arthur Lovell, Stephen M.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I think it makes sense for public resources to drive the early rollout. But given the relatively low cost of electricity, and the large public environmental benefit, it seems premature to presume monetization or let the desire for monetization drive the placement of charge stations.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2011

Progress has so far been limited in part by a lack of cheap catalysts that can speed up the generation of hydrogen and oxygen. “If we can find new ways of rationally designing catalysts, we can speed up the development of new catalytic materials enormously” —Jens Nørskov. —Søren Dahl. Yidong Hou, Billie L.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2015

Aluminium should be an attractive anode material for rechargeable Li-ion batteries for many reasons, such as low cost (~$2,000 ton −1 ), high theoretical capacity (2,235 mAh g −1 if Li 9 Al 4 , low potential plateau (~0.19–0.45 V V against Li + /Li 3 ), high electrical conductivity and so on.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

Even on land, getting oil from tar sands depletes water and other resources and doubles oil’s carbon footprint. And oil only seems cheap. While we’re fixing vehicles, we can also equip them with low-cost real-time MPG indicators that show us how to save money and still get to places quickly.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

With respect to next-generation approaches, the Li-sulfur system, which relies on the use of low-cost sulfur on the positive electrode, offers promising specific energy because of the potential for storage of 2 moles of lithium for every mole of sulfur, the authors note. Wagner et al. Wagner et al. Frederick T.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

Then came the rapid ascent of production in China and with it a flood of low-cost magnesium. Based on silicothermic reduction of magnesium oxide, the Pidgeon process is cheap but has a high energy demand: 366 MJ/kg Mg , compared to other common metals. By the early 2000s production in France, Italy and Norway had ended.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Variables such as energy tax credits, availability of low-interest home-equity loans and electricity and natural gas rates all affect an economic decision, but it is nonetheless clear that a viable unit must be manufacturable at relatively low cost. Resources. A prospect to be explored is a thermo-acoustic design.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2017

LNMO spinel oxide is a promising cathode material due to its large reversible capacity, high thermal stability, low cost—and lack of toxic, high-cost cobalt. Resources. The cell uniquely combines a nanostructured TiO 2 -based anode with a tailored 1-D tubular morphology; a LiNi 0.5 —Agostini et al. Brutti, M.

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JUNE 6, 2013

The technology to make the metal-free ORR catalysts builds on a simple and cheap industrial process several of the researchers developed to make graphene sheets from graphite. —Jeon et al. Inside a ball miller—a canister filled with steel balls—the researchers broke graphite down into single-layer graphene nanoparticles.

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