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New process uses localized surface plasmons for room-temperature conversion of CO2 to CO

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The chemical process employed by the scientists also could reduce costs and energy requirements for producing liquid hydrocarbons and other chemicals used by industry. The method’s byproducts include the building blocks for synthesizing methane, ethanol and other carbon-based compounds used in industrial processing.

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U. of Minnesota researchers demonstrate new method for direct conversion of heat to electricity

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Researchers at the University of Minnesota have demonstrated a new method for the direct conversion of heat to electricity using a multiferroic alloy, Ni 45 Co 5 Mn 40 Sn 10 , which they had discovered earlier (Srivastava 2010). 2011), The Direct Conversion of Heat to Electricity Using Multiferroic Alloys. —Srivastava 2011.

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UMD IBBR awarded DOE grant to investigate how to protect biofuel crop poplar trees from disease

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The University of Maryland (UMD) Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) has been award ed a $1.1million US Department of Energy (DOE) grant to elucidate the mechanism of rust pathogenesis in poplar in an effort to engineer durable resistance for this important, second-generation biofuel crop. Eisenstein.

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DOE to award $35M to 24 projects to support early-stage, innovative technologies and solutions in advanced manufacturing

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The selected projects vary in levels of maturity and industry-readiness—from concept definition (focused on specific experimental proof or detailed analysis) to proof-of-concept (requiring physical experimental validation). manufacturers that could improve their competitiveness and enhance their energy efficiency. 1,215,204.

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Electric Vehicle Adoption Divide Mapped

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Those states are California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Washington, Oregon and Maryland. Four of those 10 — California, Colorado, Massachusetts and Maryland — are among the states with the highest EV adoption rates. To advance mass market adoption, the industry needs more mass-market availability at lower prices.”

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AE Biofuels acquires biotechnology company Zymetis

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a Maryland-based industrial biotechnology company that develops products for the renewable chemicals and advanced fuels industries. The genome of the Z-microbe has been fully sequenced by researchers at the University of Maryland. Steve Hutcheson, founder of Zymetis and professor at the University of Maryland.

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USPTO awards patent to UMD team for process to make gasoline through fermentation; electrofuels

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The inventors are Professor Richard Kohn and Faculty Research Associate Dr. Seon-Woo Kim from the University of Maryland (UMD). For the biogasoline process, the inventors developed microorganisms that grow on carbon dioxide, which can be obtained as a byproduct from many industrial and agricultural processes. Earlier post.)

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