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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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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. We hope that it can be a steppingstone for future sustainable solar fuel production.

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

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Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. 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.

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$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

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Some plant-like bacteria (cyanobacteria) are able to fix nitrogen using solar energy via specialized cellular machinery. However, there is only one recorded sighting of this bacterium, which grows in toxic environments. Researchers led by Washington University in St. Louis biologist Himadri B. Louis; and Costas D.

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

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The mission of the EFRCs is to accelerate the rate of scientific breakthroughs needed to create advanced energy technologies for the 21 st century. Solar Energy Conversion in Complex Materials (SECCM). Solar Fuels and Next Generation Photovoltaics. Polymer-Based Materials for Harvesting Solar Energy. $16.

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

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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. Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research (ANSER) Center.

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ARPA-E awards $43M to 19 energy storage projects to advance electric vehicle and grid technologies

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environment of a lithium-ion battery in real-time. Washington University in St. Louis will develop a predictive. Det Norske Veritas will develop a gas monitoring system to. batteries degrade, they emit measurable quantities of gas. modeling of the battery’s internal environment. Battelle Memorial.