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JANUARY 8, 2024

Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. in 1990, she joined the University of Texas at Austin as a professor of biomedical engineering.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A new way of anchoring individual iridium atoms to the surface of a catalyst significantly increased its efficiency in splitting water molecules, scientists from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University reported in an open-access paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). …we

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AUGUST 4, 2022

He left there in 1966 to join the University of Cambridge as an assistant director of research. AT&T named him chief scientist, and in that position he worked on developing architecture and protocols for a large-scale Internet so that customers could connect to it from their homes. where he continued his networking work.

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MARCH 17, 2021

The University of Michigan and Ford Motor Company are opening a new advanced robotics facility. The fourth floor houses Ford’s first robotics and mobility research lab on a university campus, as well as 100 Ford researchers—including autonomous vehicle researchers—and engineers.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

University researchers also concluded that many reports of contamination can be traced to above-ground spills or other mishandling of wastewater produced from shale gas drilling, rather than from hydraulic fracturing per se, said Charles “Chip” Groat, an Energy Institute associate director who led the project. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 23, 2022

Rare-earth-metal ions are also found in bodies of water and in effluent. One reason for this is that they are usually hydrated, meaning that they are bound to water molecules. The rare-earth-metal ion fits into the cage with its nine bound water molecules. However, they are hard to separate individually from aqueous solutions.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have determined that biochar, a substance produced from plant matter, is a safe, effective and inexpensive method to treat flowback water following hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. —Maoqi Feng, SwRI.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To reduce the number of accidents in the global oil and gas industry caused by damaged pipelines, University of Houston researchers are developing an autonomous robot to identify potential pipeline leaks and structural failures during subsea inspections. When larger spills happen, pipelines are often the culprit.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Researchers at Monash University in Australia have conducted a lifecycle analysis and net energy analysis (LCA/NEA) of a hypothetical large-scale solar-electrolysis plant for the production of green hydrogen. of hydrogen is currently produced via water electrolysis and only a fraction of this production is powered by renewable energy.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Researchers at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory now report that the root cause of lithium intrusion into the electrolyte is a combination of current focusing and the presence of nanoscale cracks, rather than electronic leakage or electrochemical reduction. When that happens, the battery fails.

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JUNE 1, 2017

This completes the approval process for projects selected in ARPA-E’s Next-Generation Energy Technologies for Connected and Autonomous On-Road Vehicles (NEXTCAR) ( earlier post ) and Renewable Energy to Fuels Through Utilization of Energy-Dense Liquids (REFUEL) ( earlier post )programs. Giner, Inc.: REFUEL SBIR/STTR. Molecule Works, Inc.:

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JUNE 1, 2020

Ben Wiley, a professor of chemistry at Duke University and his team are investigating how nano- and microstructured porous electrodes can improve the productivity of hydrogen generation in a zero-gap, flow-through alkaline water electrolyzer. Wiley Lab, Duke University). Inset: Electron microscope view of the felt. Yang et al.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

They will incorporate experts in hydrodynamics, structural dynamics, control systems, power electronics, grid connections, and performance optimization. The University of Michigan. The University of Michigan proposes the RAFT concept as a solution for hydrokinetic energy harvesting. University of Washington.

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AUGUST 14, 2021

Howard’s Javelina facility is strategically positioned in the Port of Corpus Christi with pipeline connectivity to all six of the local refineries. Methane (CH 4 ) is in abundance at the Port of Corpus Christi due to direct connections to the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale production fields.

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MARCH 24, 2022

The Audi Environmental Foundation is developing filters for urban runoff in conjunction with the Technical University of Berlin (TUB). The filters prevent tire wear particles and other environmentally harmful substances from being washed into sewers and bodies of water along with rainwater.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

Researchers at the University of Michigan, McGill University and McMaster University have developed a binary copper?iron —Zetian Mi, U-M professor of electrical engineering and computer science, who co-led the work with Jun Song, professor of materials engineering at McGill University. Image credit: Baowen Zhou.

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

US President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau jointly announced sweeping restrictions to offshore oil and gas leasing in the US and Canadian Arctic waters. Obama designated the vast majority of US waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing. It’s uncharted waters.”.

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MAY 24, 2024

The number two and three spots went to University of Bristol’s Isambard AI , also the first phase of a larger planned system, and Polish Cyfronet’s Helios supercomputer. The JEDI team attributes their added success to the way they’ve connected their chips together. gigaflops per watt, as opposed to 68.8

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DECEMBER 28, 2011

IBM and the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) in Mexico have created a Smarter Cities Exploration Center. million vehicles in Guadalajara, enabled by supercomputing technology, analytics and web services connected to mobile devices feeding updates to users.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

Twelve has developed an efficient polymer-electrolyte membrane (PEM) CO 2 electrolyzer that uses proprietary CO 2 -reducing catalysts to split CO 2 with just water and renewable electricity as inputs, syngas (CO and hydrogen) as the output, and pure oxygen as the only byproduct. Formerly Opus 12, Twelve is based in Berkeley, California.

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DECEMBER 18, 2022

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.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Existing water-splitting methods rely on highly purified water—a precious resource and costly to produce. Hongjie Dai and his research lab at Stanford University have developed a prototype that can generate hydrogen fuel from seawater. Image credit: Courtesy of H. Dai, Yun Kuang, Michael Kenney). —Kuang et al.

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JULY 13, 2019

Researchers from the University at Buffalo (UB), with colleagues in the US and China, have provided pathophysiologic evidence of the effect of air pollution on cardiovascular disease in China. Their findings also suggests that China may need to revise its standard for one type of pollutant. —Meng Wang. Wang M, Hou Z, Xu H, et al.

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JUNE 10, 2021

The researchers say that their findings, recently published in an open-access paper in the journal Science Advances , are key to understanding how the universe evolved with the growth of carbon compounds. That insight could also help the car industry make cleaner combustion engines. PAHs have a dark side, too. Zagidullin, Valeriy N.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Vattenfall and Aalborg University are partnering with Danish startup SCF Technologies in a two-year project to design a demonstration plant based on SCF’s CatLiq process—an application of the firm’s supercritical fluid technology in the catalytic production of bio-oil from organic waste. The oxygen content of the CatLiq bio-oil is 2-12%.

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APRIL 19, 2018

Researchers at Jilin University in China have developed a new class of self-assembled crystalline porous organic salts (CPOSs) featuring high proton conductivity for applications such as proton-exchange membranes for fuel cells. The pores in the salts form one-dimensional channels and can hold water. —Xing et al.

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APRIL 14, 2017

The advancement could significantly boost the production of hydrogen from sunlight by using the cell to split water at a higher efficiency and lower cost than current photoelectrochemical approaches. A salt bridge connects the two compartments and transports H + and Na +. The research is outlined in a paper in Nature Energy.

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AUGUST 17, 2017

Self-healing materials aren’t new—researchers at SEAS have developed self-healing hydrogels, which rely on water to incorporate reversible bonds that can promote healing. Rubber is made of polymers often connected by permanent, covalent bonds. These two types of bonds are intrinsically immiscible, like oil and water, said Cai.

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JUNE 15, 2016

The services will be accessed using enhanced mobility and connectivity technologies from Ford vehicles. Those challenges take us to remote areas where we can use advanced vehicle and connectivity technologies to change people’s lives and make the world a better place. —Bill Ford, executive chairman. Earlier post.). Investing $4.5

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Billions of “intelligent objects” packed with sensors are connected to each other and to servers, capturing and exchanging, in real time, huge amounts of data. Well, not all of our planet: IoT does not connect us to seas and oceans. It makes it possible to closely observe the life and health of animals, while monitoring water quality.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Richard Massey, Durham University, England “For all of the elements on the periodic table, there’s about six times as much dark matter,” says Richard Massey , a professor of physics at Durham University in England. It’s like streaming Netflix down from the edge of space.” She began working on SuperBIT as a doctoral student of Massey.

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APRIL 12, 2016

million square feet of work space will be rebuilt and upgraded into even more technology-enabled and connected facilities. Ford’s zero-waste, net zero-energy, net zero-water Sustainability Showcase facility will produce more energy than it consumes, and will use geothermal heating and cooling and photovoltaic power generation.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Until recently, the residents of Melamchi, Nepal, cooked meals and heated water for bathing over a wood-burning stove. The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Of those selected, approximately 43% of OPEN 2018 projects will be led by universities, 35% by small businesses, and the remainder by large businesses, non-profit organizations or federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). University of California, San Diego. University of Delaware. Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Researchers at the University of Kiel (Germany) have developed a new process—which they call “nanoscale-sculpturing”—for the surface preparation of metals. In this way, we can permanently connect metals which could previously not be directly joined, such as copper and aluminium. Photo/Copyright: Melike Baytekin-Gerngroß.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

is building two fast-neutron nuclear breeder reactors, the first of which is slated to connect to the grid in 2023, the second in 2026. China is in the middle of a big buildup of its nuclear-weapon arsenal,” says Frank von Hippel , a physicist and nuclear-policy expert at Princeton University. “My It is anything but.

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MARCH 11, 2024

Connecting with history The archipelago of San Andres and Providencia is more than 400 miles north of the mainland of Colombia, and closer to 100 miles east of Nicaragua, but thanks to a historical wrinkle that is still being ironed out, it is part of Colombia. San Andres is not on the radar of many U.S. Each cay differs from the next.

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