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AUGUST 31, 2022

Centers bring together multidisciplinary teams from universities, nonprofits, industry and national laboratories to tackle challenges across promising areas for future energy technologies. Our overall goal is to promote the design of novel polymers that enable ions, such as lithium or hydrogen, to move extremely fast.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

In a first, University of Sydney researchers have found evidence of how hydrogen causes embrittlement of steels. Credit: University of Sydney. This research gives us key insights into how we might be able to improve this situation. Credit: University of Sydney.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

With a combination of computer models and space-based observations, Xiaomeng Jin at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University and her colleagues used the concentrations of ozone’s precursor molecules to infer whether ozone production increases more in the presence of nix, VOCs, or a mix of the two, for a given location.

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MARCH 14, 2019

This insight could potentially inform bioremediation efforts in the region. The Antarctic Treaty prohibits the use of non-Antarctic organisms in the region, creating high demand for indigenous organisms that can clean up polluted soil. An open-access paper on the work appears in the journal Microbial Cell Factories. Habib et al.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

A team of researchers from the US NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers based at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has demonstrated the use of a dual cellular–heterogeneous catalytic strategy to produce olefins from glucose. Wang et al. —Paul Dauenhauer, co-author.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

The Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) announced the first research grants from the EPIC-UCAS Joint Center for Energy Policy Research in China.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

Produced using hydrocarbon materials and a novel polymer structure, Ionomr’s polymer-based solutions avoid a range of environmental problems associated with the production, use and disposal of fluorine-containing polymers predominantly used in clean technologies today. —Hans Maenhout, Finindus, Investment Directo.

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MARCH 11, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has begun work on the Grid Storage Launchpad (GSL), a $75-million facility located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington that will boost clean energy adaptation and accelerate the development and deployment of long-duration, low-cost grid energy storage.

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MAY 14, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected 7 projects to participate in the University Coal Research (UCR) program. University of California, Merced, Calif. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa. University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mo. Clemson University, Clemson, S.C. DOE award: $298,191).

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DECEMBER 4, 2017

EarthSense Systems—a joint venture between the University of Leicester and aerial mapping company BlueSky—has published MappAir, the first high resolution nationwide map of air pollution. Using the British National Grid, EarthSense divided the UK into 100 meter squares.

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MAY 31, 2019

Long-term exposure to ambient ozone appears to accelerate arterial conditions that progress into cardiovascular disease and stroke, according to a new University at Buffalo study. The EPA reports that particulate matter concentrations have decreased across the nation as efforts are made to reduce vehicle emissions and use clean energy.

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APRIL 21, 2021

A new $2-million project at the University of Michigan aims to develop easier and more cost-effective ways to make recyclable lightweight automotive sheet metals. The Clean Sheet Project will provide these insights and we are excited to join the University of Michigan and other partners in participating.

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Baua Electric

MAY 8, 2024

A new analysis by Stanford University researchers, which is still under peer review, found that Redwood Materials ‘ recycling process produces up to 80% fewer emissions than the traditional supply chain using CO2 belching refineries.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

In June 2023, the US published its National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap for accelerating the production, processing, delivery, storage and use of clean hydrogen. Clean hydrogen should be for everyone, powering everything, and available everywhere.”

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Transitioning fleets to electric vehicles helps advance clean energy technologies and reduce emissions from transportation. This is one slice of conditioning the market, users and institutions like this university to think along those lines. We’re moving toward a transportation system of reduced personal car ownership.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

A team at the Clean Combustion Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia has shown that burning fuel at high pressure can significantly increase the size of the soot particles that are produced. A paper on their work is published in the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute.

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APRIL 24, 2024

A new analysis by Stanford University researchers, which is still under peer review, found that Redwood Materials’ recycling process produces up to 80% fewer emissions than the traditional supply chain using CO2 belching refineries.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The new Advisory Board includes: Grant Covic, Professor of Engineering at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where there are more than 40 Ph.D. Jack Watanabe, President of Climeon Japan, a clean energy company. and postdoctoral researchers on campus working on wireless charging. —Alex Gruzen, WiTricity CEO.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

Geographical distribution of Clean Cities Recovery Act awards. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 25 cost-share projects under the Clean Cities program that will be funded with nearly $300 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Clean Energy Coalition’s CEC Michigan Green Fleets Initiative.

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JUNE 26, 2015

is one of the three recipients of the 2014 Haagen-Smit Clean Air Awards , California’s premier award recognizing individuals who have made outstanding contributions to improving air quality. The two other recipients are: Dr. Donald Blake, professor of chemistry, University of California Irvine. Dr. Kirk R.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Source: University of Leicester. Source: University of Leicester. The international scientists who compiled and analyzed the global ozone pollution database hope it will give scientists and public health managers better insight on trends and patterns of human health exposure around the world. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 20, 2014

The Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) anticipates two awards being made: the first for $7 million in the area of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and fossil-fuel-based Clean Energy Systems (CES); the second for $2 million in the area of international oil and natural gas. Carbon Capture and Storage and Clean Energy Systems.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

9 Universities and Labs: Colorado School of Mines; Michigan State University; Michigan Tech University; The Ohio State University; University of Kentucky; University of Michigan; University of Notre Dame; University of Tennessee; Wayne State University. ThermoCalc; TIMET; Trumpf, Inc.;

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $20 million in funding to a project to demonstrate technology that will produce clean hydrogen energy from nuclear power. This approach will allow clean hydrogen to serve as a source for zero-carbon electricity and represent an important economic product for nuclear plants beyond electricity.

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APRIL 1, 2024

Superconductors and magnetic disk drives Parkin holds a Humboldt professorship at Martin Luther University , also in Halle. When you discover something new, you have novel insights into how the world works.” students at Martin Luther University. When you discover something new, you have novel insights into how the world works.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

The Audi RS 7 piloted driving concept car drove a clean racing line at the Hockenheimring—full throttle on the straights, full braking before the corners, precise turn-in and perfectly metered acceleration when exiting the corners. The test results continually flow into series development. Driver assistance systems. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 4, 2018

With an industry-ready design that operates with just sunlight and seawater, the device could pave the way for large-scale production of clean hydrogen fuel. By precisely controlling charge carrier flow at the nanoscale, the wafer-level photochemical diode arrays delivered the observed solar-to-hydrogen efficiency. —Chowdhury et al.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

YouTube ] The Apellix Opus X8 Softwash (SW) system cleaning the University of Florida Shands Hospital building in Jacksonville, Florida. NASA’s Insight lander put itself in a "safe mode" to conserve battery power after dust prevented sunlight from reaching the solar panels. CMU RI ].

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MAY 22, 2014

Researchers at Michigan State University have developed a microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) which will allow biodiesel plants to eliminate the creation of hazardous wastes while reducing their dependence on fossil fuel. —Speers et al.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

MIT ] Using a mix of 3D-printed plastic and metal parts, a full-scale replica of NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, was built inside a clean room at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The activity served as a dress rehearsal for the flight version, which is scheduled for assembly in the summer of 2022.

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JULY 21, 2016

35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Binghamton University (State University of New York). Binghamton University (State University of New York). Tesla Motors, Inc.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

CoalTek, teaming with the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research in Lexington, Ky., Duke University in Durham, N.C., and the University of North Dakota Energy and Environment Research Center in Grand Forks, N.D., Clean Coal Briquette Inc. Partnering with the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Ky.;

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JULY 22, 2011

Regulatory hurdles are hindering the successful commercialization of emerging liquid biofuels, according to a new study by University of Illinois law professor Jay P. Slating, a regulatory associate with the University of Illinois Energy Biosciences Institute. Then they apply these insights via a case study focused on biobutanol.

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JULY 14, 2015

The University of South Carolina. The Tennessee Technological University. Montana State University. The University of California, San Diego. The University of Maryland. Kettering University. DOE: $2,500,000 Non DOE: $625,149 Total: $3,125,149 (20% cost share).

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

as well as 600 universities throughout the country. Its car share program, Hertz on Demand, launched in December 2008 and grew to more than 1,000 vehicles, 85,000 members and more than 500 locations worldwide, including corporate fleets, airports, hotels, utilities, government, and universities. Zipcar’s potential is enormous.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

—co-author Professor Piers Forster from the University of Leeds’s School of Earth and Environment in the United Kingdom. —co-lead author Sarah Doherty of the University of Washington in Seattle. —co-lead author Tami Bond of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bond et al.

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JUNE 2, 2014

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) contracted with the Center for Alternative Fuels, Engines and Emissions at West Virginia University to conduct in-use testing of three light-duty diesel vehicles (two 2.0L diesels and one 3.0L diesel) over pre-defined test routes exhibiting diverse driving conditions.

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