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U Toronto and Fujitsu team use quantum-inspired computing to discover improved catalyst for hydrogen production

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Researchers from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering and Fujitsu have applied quantum-inspired computing to find the promising, previously unexplored chemical family of Ru-Cr-Mn-Sb-O 2 as acidic oxygen evolution reaction catalysts for hydrogen production. A paper on their work appears in the journal Matter.

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Wolfspeed wins 2016 R&D 100 Award for wide bandgap underhood inverter for HEVs/EVs

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This wide bandgap inverter product resulted in a smaller, lighter, higher power density and more efficient system in comparison to Toyota’s present Prius inverter design implementing silicon technology. an enclosure, which provides the unit with EMI shielding, electrical cabling, and liquid cooling inlet/outlet connections.

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OSU smart membrane could enable new category of high-energy, high-power energy storage for EVs

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A team at the Ohio State University has developed a membrane that regulates bi-directional ion transport across it as a function of its redox state and that could be used as a programmable smart membrane separator in future supercapacitors and redox flow batteries. plugin EVs to Tesla’s 85 kWh battery pack). —Herya and Sundaresan.

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Researchers call for integration of materials sustainability into battery research; the need for in situ monitoring

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In a review paper in the journal Nature Materials , Jean-Marie Tarascon (Professor at College de France and Director of RS2E, French Network on Electrochemical Energy Storage) and Clare Gray (Professor at the University of Cambridge), call for integrating the sustainability of battery materials into the R&D efforts to improve rechargeable batteries.

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. This is due to the 30 to 40 percent increase in emissions EVs create in comparison to manufacturing an ICE vehicle, mainly from its battery production.

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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

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He and colleagues at University of California, San Diego delivered what he called an “an open and transparent assessment” of Google’s reinforcement learning approach. Briefly, this is how it works : The chip’s design file starts as what’s called a netlist—which macros and cells are connected to which others according what constraints.

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Volvo Car outlines technological future: new Scalable Platform Architecture and focus on four-cylinder engines; Concept You

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The electrical architecture will enable all future multimedia and connectivity solutions, and forms the backbone of the Volvo Car Corporation’s drive to reinforce its leading position in active safety. The comparison between a donkey and a thoroughbred racehorse is an excellent example: each has a head, a body and four legs.

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