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PNNL-led team designs highly active cobalt-based PGM-free catalyst for fuel cells

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

These highly efficient, clean energy conversion devices require very active catalysts for the chemical reaction—the oxygen reduction reaction, or the “lifeblood” that makes a fuel cell efficiently function. Along with PNNL, researchers from Washington University in St. —Yuyan Shao.

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Joule says it has improved the photosynthetic efficiency of its engineered cyanobacteria by nearly 100%

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AUGUST 15, 2014

At the 2014 Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, Joule reported that its has improved the overall photosynthetic efficiency of its engineered cyanobacteria by nearly 100%, and estimates a maximum 14% energy conversion efficiency in its biomass-to-fuels process.

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DOE awards $100M in 2nd funding round for 32 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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JUNE 24, 2014

The centers selected for the second round of funding will help lay the scientific groundwork for fundamental advances in solar energy, electrical energy storage, carbon capture and sequestration, materials and chemistry by design, biosciences, and extreme environments. Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI).

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WUSTL researchers demonstrate solar-panel-powered microbial electrosynthesis to produce n-butanol from light, CO2 and power

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered a new way to train microbes to make n -butanol. Microorganisms have evolved a bewildering array of techniques to obtain nutrients from their surrounding environments. The results are reported in an open-access paper in the journal Communications Biology.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

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AUGUST 5, 2009

Expanding established propulsion systems into a volume manufacturing environment. Manufacturing: Warren, MI and St. Louis, MO; Deployment: 11 partner fleets. Rolla, MO Warrensburg, MO Linn, MO St. Louis, MO Kansas City, MO Lee’s Summit, MO. UQM Technologies, Inc. Muncie, IN Holly, MI. Chrysler LLC. $70. Technology.

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Lithium Ion Grant Obama St. Louis

USDA and DOE award $12.2M to 10 research projects to accelerate bioenergy crop production and spur economic impact

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AUGUST 12, 2011

Overall, the USDA and DOE projects are designed to improve special crops to be grown for biofuels—including selected trees and grasses—by increasing their yield, quality and ability to adapt to extreme environments. Mockler, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St.

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APRA-E awards WUSTL $2M to develop predictive battery management system for plug-in vehicles; targeting more efficient use

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AUGUST 6, 2012

A team of engineers at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) will receive $2 million from the US Department of Energy’s ARPA-E to design a predictive battery management system for lithium-ion batteries to guarantee their longevity, safety and performance. The School of Engineering & Applied Science is providing $1.2 Earlier post.)

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Full genome map of oil palm indicates a way to raise yields and protect rainforest; single gene controls oil palm yield

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JULY 25, 2013

The discovery, the product of a multiyear effort to provide a high-quality full genome map of the oil palm plant and to scour the sequence for genes of importance to both science and industry, has major implications for agriculture and the environment. Louis-based Orion Genomics. —Robert A. Martienssen, Ph.D.,

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DOE Awards $377 Million in Funding for 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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AUGUST 7, 2009

The mission of the EFRCs is to accelerate the rate of scientific breakthroughs needed to create advanced energy technologies for the 21 st century. Center for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels (C3Bio). $20. Solar Energy Conversion in Complex Materials (SECCM). Purdue University. University of Michigan.

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ARPA-E awards $37M for IONICS projects; improving solid-state batteries and fuel cells

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

In particular, IONICS projects will work to improve energy storage and conversion technologies in three categories: transportation batteries, grid-level storage, and fuel cells. Washington University in St. The Washington University in St. Reinforced AEM Separators Based on Triblock Copolymers for Electrode-Decoupled RFBs.

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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

MARCH 1, 2023

Our first two ride & drives, in 2014 and 2015, were the largest NDEW events held in the area west of the Mississippi, south of St. Louis, and north of Florida. If you want to have an in-depth discussion about EVs, solar installation, or anything environmental, you don’t need the usual 5-minute pre-conversation.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

Cars That Think

APRIL 16, 2023

As Sutherland put it in his thesis , “The Sketchpad system makes it possible for a man and a computer to converse rapidly through the medium of line drawings. Critically for Sutherland, he supported a new effort by Clark, who by then had moved from MIT to Washington University, in St.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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JULY 10, 2019

Advanced Flow Meter for Extreme Environments (AFMEE), $100,000 MicroNuclear LLC, Franklin, Tenn. Commercializing 3D Printable Feedstocks for the Advanced Manufacturing of Energy Products, $300,000 MilliporeSigma, St. Louis , Mo. El Centro, Calif. Idaho National Laboratory. Louisville, Colo. San Jose, Calif.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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JUNE 4, 2022

Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. And in the Xerox environment in ’76, all of a sudden you could create things and make lots of them.”

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PNNL-led team designs highly active cobalt-based PGM-free catalyst for fuel cells

Joule says it has improved the photosynthetic efficiency of its engineered cyanobacteria by nearly 100%

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DOE awards $100M in 2nd funding round for 32 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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WUSTL researchers demonstrate solar-panel-powered microbial electrosynthesis to produce n-butanol from light, CO2 and power

President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

USDA and DOE award $12.2M to 10 research projects to accelerate bioenergy crop production and spur economic impact

APRA-E awards WUSTL $2M to develop predictive battery management system for plug-in vehicles; targeting more efficient use

Full genome map of oil palm indicates a way to raise yields and protect rainforest; single gene controls oil palm yield

DOE Awards $377 Million in Funding for 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers

ARPA-E awards $37M for IONICS projects; improving solid-state batteries and fuel cells

Punching above its weight

The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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