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UT El Paso-led team designs cactus-inspired low-cost, efficient water-splitting catalyst

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Researchers led by engineers at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) have proposed a low-cost, cactus-inspired nickel-based material to help split water more cheaply and efficiently. The material is described in a paper in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. who led the study. —Attarzadeh et al.

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Phillips 66 receives $3M grant to advance reversible solid oxide fuel cell technology

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Phillips 66 has received a $3-million grant from the U.S. Phillips 66 will collaborate with the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of a low-cost and highly efficient RSOFC system for hydrogen and electricity generation. Earlier post.)

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CleanSpark, Inc. and ReJoule awarded $2.9M second-life EV battery grant with support from Ford

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million grant to CleanSpark, Inc., The grant is slated to be deployed over the next 30 months. CleanSpark expects to receive approximately $470,000 of the grant funding for its microgrid design and mVSO software services and follow-on deployment of its mPulse software and controls.

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USDA awards Microvi grant for biobutanol production technology

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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded Microvi Biotechnologies a grant to develop a new technology to improve significantly the yield and performance of biobutanol processes. Based on preliminary investigations, Microvi’s technology has shown substantial increases in the titer of butanol over its solubility limit.

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Gevo awarded patent covering low-cost separation technology to remove isobutanol from fermentation broth

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The USPTO granted the ‘505 Patent in view of art cited against Gevo’s earlier-issued U.S. This increases productivity of the genetically modified yeast cells because yeast does not thrive in high concentrations of isobutanol, said Brett Lund, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Gevo.

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European consortium receives €1.35M grant to develop supply chains for PEM electrolyzer components

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million) grant to a consortium to develop supply chains for PEM electrolyzer components. Presently, the active incumbent materials contribute to about 70% of stack costs. Thus, the focus of the project is on low-cost electrocatalyst, low-noble metal loading electrodes and membrane development. million (US$1.7-million)

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Virginia Tech Transportation Institute receives University Transportation Center Tier 1 Grant; focus on connected vehicle technology

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A primary reason for this advancement is the ability of the connected vehicle technology to share high quality data derived from information that currently resides on vehicles and at the roadside via low-cost, dedicated radios. million grant that they must match with funds from non-federal sources.

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