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MIT researchers develop optimized sulfidation separation process for rare earth and other key metals

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New processing methods developed by MIT researchers could help ease looming shortages of the essential metals that power everything from phones to automotive batteries by making it easier to separate these rare metals from mining ores and recycled materials. Image: courtesy of the researchers. —Antoine Allanore. Allanore, A.

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A Dragon Comes Home

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It has already been featured at the Toulouse International Fair, where it thrilled onlookers from 9 to 18 April. Larger versions, say the Columbia researchers, will get signals from transmitters located adjacent to internal organs deep within the body to noninvasive external receivers stuck onto the skin. Rats are irrepressible.

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US DOE awards more than $175M to 40 projects for advanced vehicle research and development

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This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. Increased availability of low cost carbon fiber can enable vehicle weight reduction and improvement in fuel economy. 10,000,000.

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Researchers propose new aluminum–sulfur battery with molten-salt electrolyte; low-cost, rechargeable, fire-resistant, recyclable

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An international team of researchers led by Quanguan Pang at Peking University and Donald Sadoway at MIT reports a bidirectional, rapidly charging aluminum–chalcogen battery operating with a molten-salt electrolyte composed of NaCl–KCl–AlCl 3. A paper on the work is published in Nature.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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These investments are one reason why the International Energy Agency (IEA) in September insisted that there’s still hope to hold global temperature rise to 1.5 °C Well, they’re really making a scenario that’s internally consistent with a set of assumptions. So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D., In the past two years, the U.S.

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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Natural Gas Reactor for Remote Chemical Conversion. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop a. deployed remotely, MIT’s reformer could be used for small, remote sources of gas. If successful, the new crop would have a lower cost of. Turbo-POx For Ultra Low-Cost Gasoline. If successful, this.

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ARPA-E awards $175M to 68 novel clean energy OPEN 2021 projects

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The selected projects will focus on technologies such as revolutionizing fuel cells for light- and heavy-duty vehicles, and technologies to generate less nuclear waste and reduce the cost of fuel. 3D-Printed Ceramic Thermocatalytic CO 2 Reactor with High Carbon Conversion and Energy Efficiencies - $3,100,104. Stanford University.

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