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Researchers use melamine to create effective, low-cost carbon capture; potential tailpipe application

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Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine, researchers from UC Berkeley, Texas A&M and Stanford have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks. The energy savings come from not having to heat the substance to high temperatures.

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Sandia team boosts hydrogen production activity by molybdenum disulfide four-fold; low-cost catalyst for solar-driven water splitting

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The improved catalyst has already released four times the amount of hydrogen ever produced by MoS 2 from water. 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.

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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 million to identify new materials that will efficiently absorb sunlight and split water into hydrogen. Bard and Mullins are affiliated with the Center for Electrochemistry at the university. million) and the US Department of Energy (about $1.1

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Wind, Hills and Range Anxiety: A 50-Mile Handcycling Adventure

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Gordon, chairman of the department of health, human performance and recreation at Baylor University in Wako, Texas, largely because of the difference in the amount of muscle mass. Windmills turned slowly, pumping water for the cattle that dotted the pinyon and juniper woodlands. But handcycles aren’t cheap.

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Discover Le Havre, Where Impressionism Was Born

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He flung his brush with quick strokes and played with the water, stretching it with rays of color. She worked for a year with Donald Olson, a Texas State University astronomer and physics professor who used topographical, meteorological and astrological studies to calculate the precise date and time of its creation.

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PNNL, OSU team develops a durable, inexpensive molybdenum-phosphide catalyst for efficient conversion of wastewater & seawater into hydrogen

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Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), with colleagues from Oregon State University, have developed PNNL a durable, inexpensive molybdenum-phosphide catalyst that efficiently converts wastewater and seawater into hydrogen. Like seawater, the MoP catalyst material is widely available, and therefore, cheap.

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New metal-free ORR catalyst outperforms platinum in fuel cell

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Researchers from South Korea, Case Western Reserve University and University of North Texas have synthesized new inexpensive and easily produced metal-free catalysts—edge-selectively halogenated graphene nanoplatelets (XGnPs)—that can perform better than platinum in oxygen-reduction reactions. —Jeon et al.

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