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JUNE 14, 2019

Natron Energy, a developer of new battery cell technology based on Prussian Blue analogue electrodes and a sodium-ion electrolyte, has ( earlier post ), has been awarded a $3-million grant by the California Energy Commission (CEC) for “Advanced Energy Storage for Electric Vehicle Charging Support.”

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AUGUST 11, 2010

In October 2008, Xcel began testing a one-megawatt sodium-sulfur (NaS) battery ( earlier post ) to demonstrate its ability to store wind energy and move it to the electricity grid when needed. The project received a $1 million grant from Xcel Energy’s Renewable Development Fund. They are able to store about 7.2

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OCTOBER 11, 2014

Three MIT-led research teams have won awards from the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Programs ( NEUP ) initiative to support research and development on the next generation of nuclear technologies. Fluoride-salt High-Temperature Reactor. Seawater uranium.

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MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. times above that of sodium-ion batteries with graphite electrodes.

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MARCH 1, 2017

lithium, sodium or potassium) on a copper–carbon cathode current collector at a voltage of more than 3.0 Finally, sodium is cheaper than lithium and widely available from the oceans, which makes a sodium battery preferable to a lithium battery, but insertion hosts for Na + have lower capacities than insertion hosts for Li +.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

“Energy is something we take for granted, because we just plug things into the wall, and it feels as inevitable as air. Tohoku University Looking to the future more broadly, some researchers are focused on combining unique materials and creating energy-harvesting systems from more sustainable materials.

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MARCH 23, 2015

These carbonaceous electrodes could also be used for rechargeable sodium-ion batteries. The researchers acknowledge funding from Purdue University, the university’s School of Chemical Engineering and the Kirk Endowment grant from the Birck Nanotechnology Center.

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But a new study led by Sujay Kaushal of the University of Maryland warns that introducing salt into the environment—whether it's for de-icing roads, fertilizing farmland or other purposes—releases toxic chemical cocktails that create a serious and growing global threat to our freshwater supply and human health.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

A team of researchers from Vanderbilt University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has discovered an entirely new form of crystalline order that simultaneously exhibits both crystal and polycrystalline properties, which they describe as “interlaced crystals.”. CIS is a bit more complicated. Resources.

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AUGUST 29, 2010

The biorefinery will convert the process waste effluent from the plant into cellulosic ethanol, sodium acetate and clean, warm water. Michigan Technical University will contribute research to improve fermentation processes and also on the use of sodium acetate for novel de-icing applications.

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JULY 4, 2010

Researchers at North Carolina State University are developing an ozone-based pre-treatment technique (ozonolysis) to release sugars from the energy grass miscanthus for production into renewable fuels or chemicals with minimal generation of chemical waste streams and degradation of the carbohydrate components.

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

Several types of recipients were eligible for funding, such as private industry, universities, and federal labs, through contracts, grants, and other mechanisms. Sodium batteries. In addition to these obligations, DOE supported about $596 million in direct loans. through 2012. Number of obligations. Li-ion batteries.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

The awarded grants will go to projects with lead researchers in 17 states. Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. DOE grant: $7,200,000).

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

Two chemists at Brown University have streamlined the conversion of waste vegetable oil (WVO) into biodiesel, eliminating the need for corrosive chemicals to perform the reactions. Also, the conversion requires the toxic chemicals sulfuric acid and either potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide. That makes the process less efficient.

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OCTOBER 25, 2014

An in-depth study based on first-principles calculations by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University has shown that the anions of commercially available electrolytes for Li-ion batteries are all superhalogens. Most electrolytes currently used in Li-ion batteries contain halogens, which are toxic. —Puru Jena. 201408648.

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MAY 23, 2023

It’s got sodium, potassium, calcium, etc., It doesn’t really like sodium so much. This was work from Denis Jabaudon at the University of Geneva, and they were looking at how neurons actually differentiate. Adee: Well, so Michael Levin is a professor at Tufts University. This is like sieve water. That was in the 1800s.

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

A team of researchers from universities and national laboratories led by Tufts University has developed catalysts composed of a unique structure of single gold atoms bound by oxygen to several sodium or potassium atoms and supported on non-reactive silica materials. —Yang et al. — Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos.

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