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ORNL to lead new EFRC focused on polymer electrolytes for energy storage

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Centers bring together multidisciplinary teams from universities, nonprofits, industry and national laboratories to tackle challenges across promising areas for future energy technologies. Our overall goal is to promote the design of novel polymers that enable ions, such as lithium or hydrogen, to move extremely fast.

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US DOE awards ~$5M to expand research on methane hydrates

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Selected projects are: Georgia Tech Research Corporation. The University of Texas at Austin. Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) TEES, in conjunction with the Georgia Institute of Technology, will develop a numerical model to address the many complexities associated with production from hydrate-bearing sediments.

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DOE Awarding More Than $3.3M to 7 Universities To Conduct Advanced Turbine Technology Studies for Advanced Coal-Based Power Generation

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million to 7 universities to conduct advanced turbine technology studies under the Office of Fossil Energy’s (FE) University Turbine Systems Research (UTSR) Program. The selected projects, each 36 months in duration, include: Georgia Tech Research Corporation , Atlanta, Ga. Texas A&M University , College Station, Texas.

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SRC launches Synthetic Biology Research on biomedical and minimal-power electronic devices for novel semiconductor applications

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Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world’s leading university-research consortium for semiconductor technologies, has launched the Semiconductor Synthetic Biology (SSB) research program on hybrid bio-semiconductor systems to provide insights and opportunities for future information and communication technologies.

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NREL-led research could lead to improved enzyme performance to break down biomass for renewable fuels

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A team led by researchers from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have gained new insights into how glycosylation—the natural attachment of sugars to proteins—affects a key cellulase enzyme. —co-author Antonella Amore, a postdoc at NREL.

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NIST awards $7.4M in grants for additive manufacturing research

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NIST is awarding $5 million to the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII) in Youngstown, Ohio, which is operated by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining, for a three-phase collaborative research effort involving 27 companies, universities and national laboratories. NIST is also awarding $2.4

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Tesla partners with EV charging reliability platform for Destination network

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said its partnership with Tesla will start in California as the platform will survey Destination stations to provide critical data points and insights pertaining to the station’s overall performance. A study from the University of California Berkley that found that only 72.5% ChargerHelp! Hyundai announced a $5.5