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JULY 25, 2016

An international team from MIT, Argonne National Laboratory and Peking University has demonstrated a lab-scale proof-of-concept of a new type of cathode for Li-air batteries that could overcome the current drawbacks to the technology, including a high potential gap (>1.2 V)

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MAY 13, 2019

A cheaper, cleaner and more sustainable way of making hydrogen fuel from water using sunlight is closer with new research from the University of Bath’s Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies. The Bath team instead used commercially available graphite, which is very cheap and much more sustainable than indium.

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With the development of zero-emission technologies, hydrogen has been recognized as a potential power source for long-distance vehicle fleets because of its high energy density and low weight. Universality In the U.S., Electricity is abundant, relatively cheap, and can be easily delivered to any place with a plug.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Partners include the New Mexico Consortium, University of Maryland, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research. Their open-access study is published in Nature’s new Communications Earth & Environment journal. Neil, Mohamed Mehana, Rex P. Hjelm, Marilyn E.

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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. Storing renewable energy directly in the gas network was a logical first route to market for the invention.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Hongjie Dai and his research lab at Stanford University have developed a prototype that can generate hydrogen fuel from seawater. Electrolysis of water to generate hydrogen fuel is an attractive renewable energy storage technology. The technology could be used for purposes beyond generating energy. Image credit: Courtesy of H.

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MAY 26, 2019

Scientists from the Russian National University of Science and Technology MISIS have doped aluminum melt with nickel and lanthanum to create a material combining benefits of both composite materials and standard alloys: flexibility, strength, lightness. A paper on their research is published in Materials Letters.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

Scientists of Ural Federal University and the Institute of Metallurgy of the Ural Branch of RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences) have developed and successfully tested the technology of joint non-waste processing of electric furnace and ladle slag to obtain pig iron and Portland cement clinker.

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MAY 8, 2023

Yavuz of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Prof. Bo Liu from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and Prof. A team of international researchers led by Professor Cafer T. A) CO 2 hydrate where CO 2 molecules are trapped in water clusters at high pressures and low temperatures.

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MARCH 30, 2014

Engineers at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre ( AMRC ) at the University of Sheffield have successfully printed a 1.5m-wide The engineers said the polymer craft could form the basis of cheap and potentially disposable UAVs that could be built and deployed in remote situations potentially within as little as 24 hours.

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OCTOBER 12, 2012

Chemists at Queen’s University Belfast (Ireland) have devised a novel environmentally friendly technique which allows the rapid production of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). The technology is to be commercialized by a spin-out from the University, MOF Technologies. Click to enlarge. —Prof. —Prof.

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MAY 19, 2014

A duo at the University of Stuttgart (Germany) is proposing an approach for the conversion of natural gas at gas-transport-constrained fields to easily transportable, high-octane liquid products. A paper describing their work is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.

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APRIL 26, 2018

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). Polymer electrolytes such as PEO may show low conductivity near 10 ?6

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

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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DECEMBER 20, 2010

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have coated SnO 2 nanowires with vanadium pentoxide (V 2 O 5 ) using a simple gas-phase-based method. An electrode made from the SnO 2 /V 2 O 5 core/shell-nanowires delivers a high power density of about 60 kW kg -1 while the energy density remains 282 Wh kg -1. Wang, 2006).

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JANUARY 30, 2011

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

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JULY 30, 2021

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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DECEMBER 31, 2012

A team at Rice University has engineered E. A paper describing their work was published in the journal Bioresource Technology. The new succinate process developed by Bennett, San and Chandresh Thakker promises to make even better use of a cheap and plentiful feedstock—primarily the indigestible parts of the soybean.

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MAY 18, 2023

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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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a room-temperature method that could significantly reduce carbon dioxide levels in fossil-fuel power plant exhaust, one of the main sources of carbon emissions in the atmosphere.

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MARCH 25, 2024

Paul Kohl, Georgia Institute of Technology At the battery seminar, Wright showed off a BAT300 test channel designed to convert a 400 or 800 volt direct current down to a 10 volt current for cell formation or cell testing. “It Battery companies have expended enormous effort on predictive modeling.”

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JULY 31, 2014

Another benefit is that the really high performing cation-based pseudocapacitors use metals that are really expensive and not abundant on earth, while the materials used in this anion-based one uses cheap metals that are abundant in earth’s crust. —Tyler Mefford, graduate student and lead author.

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JULY 8, 2016

A Reader,” which was co-edited by Raphael Heffron and Gavin Little and published by Edinburgh University Press. Finally, in many MENA countries, government policies that made available low-priced fuel and electricity contributed to an ‘entitlement mentality’ among citizens toward cheap energy. and the U.S.: —Jim Krane.

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JUNE 9, 2014

With technology improvements—specifically advances in microbial yield and catalyst efficiency—production costs for electrofuels drop to below $150 per barrel. The DOE made a $122 million investment for five years for the latter institute spearheaded by the California Institute of Technology and US DOE Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

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MARCH 24, 2023

The Big Picture features technology through the lens of photographers. Every month, IEEE Spectrum selects the most stunning technology images recently captured by photographers around the world. We choose images that reflect an important advance, or a trend, or that are just mesmerizing to look at.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Demonstrating that we are truly living in an era of "smart agriculture," many of the technologies showcased in this year's ARPA-E Summit were in the farming sector—most notably, sensors for crops and farmlands. With the new, cheap sensors, farmers will be able to collect data on their farms without worrying about the variability.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2015

The team, led by scientists from Harvard University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, employed a microfluidic assembly technique to produce microcapsules that contain liquid sorbents encased in highly permeable polymer shells. Hardin IV of Harvard University; and Elizabeth Glogowski of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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MARCH 2, 2018

—Haotian Wang, a Rowland Fellow at Harvard University and the corresponding author. To apply this technology to real applications in the future, we are currently aimed at producing this single atom catalyst in a cheap and large-scale way, while improving its performance and maintaining its efficiency. —Haotian Wang.

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MAY 10, 2022

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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MARCH 17, 2023

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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MARCH 11, 2023

The experiment seemed to prove the feasibility of the technology. AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV. And with the revival of the EV, the V2G concept was reborn.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

Researchers from the University of Liverpool (UK), with colleagues from Dalian University of Technology (China) and the University of Hull (UK), have developed a new process for the direct, one-step activation of carbon dioxide and methane (dry reforming of methane) into higher value liquid fuels and chemicals (e.g.,

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JANUARY 25, 2018

Sadoway considers this development a breakthrough, because for the first time in five decades, this type of battery—the advantages of which include cheap, abundant raw materials, very safe operational characteristics, and an ability to go through many charge-discharge cycles without degradation—could finally become practical.

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Here's why: The technology, as good as it is, doesn't seem fully ready for a universal mandate. In this case, however, the government seems to be ready to force all new-car buyers to have to deal with a technology that still fails too much. I am just not sure this is the correct approach. At least not yet.

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APRIL 5, 2023

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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DECEMBER 10, 2022

In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. The thumb drive was all that—and more.

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APRIL 11, 2014

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a nanocrystalline copper material that produces multi-carbon oxygenates (ethanol, acetate and n-propanol) with up to 57% Faraday efficiency at modest potentials (–0.25?volts We have a solution to this problem that’s made of copper, which is cheap and abundant. volts to –0.5?volts

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