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Heat-conducting polymer cools hot electronic devices at 200 C; potential for automotive applications

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A team led by researchers from Georgia Tech have used an electropolymerization process to produce aligned arrays of polymer nanofibers that function as a thermal interface material able to conduct heat 20 times better than the original polymer. Fiber diameters range from 18 to 300 nanometers, depending on the pore template.

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White House announces new commitments in support of Materials Genome Initiative

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Industry, academic, and government researchers working at the Center will collectively identify critical technical barriers to progress on a wide range of advanced materials research topics. Georgia Institute of Technology launches New Institute for Materials. million organic molecules of potential use in organic solar cells.

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Sandia, ASU collaborate on algae computational modeling, look for algae pond predators

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Sandia National Laboratories and Arizona State University (ASU) have teamed up to improve computational models of algae growth in raceway ponds that can predict performance, improve pond design and operation and discover ways to improve algae yield outdoors.

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NIST Awards $123M in 12 Recovery Act Grants for New Research Facilities; Univ. of Ky CAER to Expand Capacitor and Battery Manufacturing Research with its $11.8M Award

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The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at 11 universities and one non-profit research organization. million to the University of Maine (Orono, Me.)

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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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Award amounts range from $500,000 to $80 million, with most receiving at least $2 million. University of California Riverside, “Scale-up Demonstration of Hybrid Catalytic Biorefining of Biomass to Sustainable Aviation and Marine Fuels”, $2,000,000. RTI International and partners at POET Research, Inc. MicroBio Engineering Inc.,

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Alabama A&M University. Alabama A&M University’s Bulldog Transit System will receive funding to purchase electric buses, charging stations, and other associated equipment. Because the charging stations will utilize Jacksonville Electric Authority's Solar Smart Power program, the buses will truly have zero emissions.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. How fast can you ramp your power plants up and down to handle the variability from wind and solar?

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