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NSF Awards NCSU Team $2M For Research on Deriving Drop-in Renewable Hydrocarbon Fuels from Algae

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The team will begin working with marine algae called Dunaliella , which grow in brackish or salty water. The $2 million grant is part of the federal stimulus package and comes from NSF’s Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation program. student Tim Turner, and industry partners Diversified Energy Corp. Dunaliella.

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EPFL/Technion team develops “champion” nanostructures for efficient solar water-splitting to produce hydrogen

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-Fe 2 O 3 (hematite) electrodes that achieve the highest photocurrent of any metal oxide photoanode for photoelectrochemical water-splitting under 100?mW?cm Warren, first author, now at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Its efficiency was such that gas bubbles emerged as soon as it was under a light stimulus.

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