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Prominent Universities Sign Open Access Agreements with IEEE

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The University of California and the Conference of Italian University Rectors (a consortium of state and non-state universities known as the CRUI) each recently signed what’s known as a read-and-publish agreement with IEEE. Gold open access refers to periodicals in which all content is freely available once published.

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Renewable plastic precursor could reduce cost of cellulosic ethanol by >$2/gallon

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The hydrogenation of 5-HY-Val in the presence of the 2-HY-THP monomers and dimers with a Ru catalyst results in 97% overall yield of 1,5-PD from DHP.The researchers refer to this routeas the dehydration, hydration, and hydrogenation (DHH) pathway. Comparison of costs and MSPs for the DHH pathway with the direct hydrogenolysis pathway.

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How This Startup Cut Production Costs of Millimeter Wave Power Amplifiers

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The company’s name, she says, refers to atmospheric emission of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources. Department of Energy national lab operated by Stanford University. Elves can be seen as a flat ring glowing in Earth’s upper atmosphere.

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CMU researchers find controlled charging of PHEVs can cut cost of integration into electricity system by 54-73%; higher benefits with wind power

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In a new study published in the journal Applied Energy , Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers found that controlled charging of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) reduces the costs of integrating the vehicles into an electricity system by 54–73% depending on the scenario.

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MIT team develops data-driven safety envelope for lithium-ion batteries for EVs

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Researchers at MIT, with a colleague from Tsinghua University, have developed a safety envelope for Li-ion batteries in electric vehicles by using a high accuracy finite element model of a pouch cell to produce more than 2,500 simulations and subsequently analyzing the data with Machine Learning (ML) algorithms.

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GWU team suggests C2CNT carbon nanotube composites could amplify reduction of GHG emissions

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A team of researchers at George Washington University led by Prof. In the figure "ton" refers to metric tonne and CNT, carbon nanotube. B) Carbon mitigation with CNT-Al. The latter (B) includes a cascade effect due to virgin Al’s large carbon footprint, triggering larger CNT-composite induced CO 2 emission elimination. Licht et al.

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U of I study: synthetic fuels via CO2 conversion and FT not currently economically & environmentally competitive

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A study by a team at University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign has found that, with currently achievable performance levels, synthetic fuels produced via the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 and the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process system are not economically and environmentally competitive with using petroleum-based fuel. —Li et al.