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University of Maryland wins 2012 Hydrogen Student Design Contest

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The team of the University of Maryland is the winner of the 2012 Hydrogen Student Design Contest, announced on Sunday by the US Department of Energy at the Young Scientist Symposium of the World Hydrogen Energy Conference 2012 in Toronto, Canada. At the awards ceremony, the theme for the next Contest was announced as well.

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ION Storage Systems to partner with U Maryland on $4.8M ARPA-E EVs4ALL award

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million grant awarded to the University of Maryland (UMD). This design will increase the charge and discharge-rate capability, energy density and operative temperature of solid-state lithium batteries. ION Storage Systems Inc. Earlier post.)

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UMD, Army Researchers design new electrolyte enabling high energy density rechargeable Mg and Ca batteries

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This work provides a versatile electrolyte design strategy for divalent metal batteries. In an effort to address this problem, a UMD research team led by Chunsheng Wang, professor of chemical engineering and director of the Center for Research in Extreme Batteries, developed a novel design strategy that incorporated a new class of solvents.

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New machine learning method accurately predicts battery state of health

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In the reported study, the team designed and evaluated a machine learning pipeline for estimation of battery capacity fade—a metric of battery health—on 179 cells cycled under various conditions. A paper describing the method is published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence.

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NSF awards Univ. of Maryland and Genovation $438K to develop novel hybrid energy storage system for EVs

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The National Science Foundation has selected a project by researchers at the University of Maryland and their partners from Genovation Cars ( earlier post ) for a $438,418 GOALI (Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry) award to develop a novel hybrid energy storage system for electric vehicles.

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Battery500 Consortium awarded $75M for Phase 2 of research

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This progress includes the identification and quantification of cell failure processes, improvement of electrode materials, creation of novel electrolytes, development of innovative electrode architectures and cell designs, and creation of new testing procedures and protocols.

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Inside the Universe Machine: The Webb Space Telescope’s Chilly Sun Shield

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How then did the engineers and designers of this massive telescope ever make it possible to cool the telescope down enough—all at a remove of nearly four times the earth-moon distance—to possibly do its job? It is specifically designed the way that it is because they wanted to do intensive infrared science.” billion years ago.

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