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XG Sciences silicon graphene anode material shows stability over 400 cycles with 600 mAh/gram

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We foresee a wide range of applicable battery applications in any market where energy storage is a high priority—like handheld electronics, automotive, and industrial energy storage. Doron Aurbach (Bar Ilan University) for a 3-day technical seminar on batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells and electric vehicles.

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SwRI, India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research sign strategic alliance agreement on fuels research and engine development

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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) signed a three-year Strategic Alliance Agreement in Pune, India, to cooperate in the development of novel technologies in fuels research and engine development projects.

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Video Friday: Punch-Out

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This small soft robot has the potential to be employed as a robotic system for inner and outer pipe inspection and confined space exploration in the oil and gas industry. KIMLAB ] Humanoid robots have the potential of becoming general purpose robots augmenting the human workforce in industries. VISTEK ] Thanks, Poramate!

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Hyundai Motor Group and Seoul National University open joint battery research center; focus on Li-metal and solid-state

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This collaborative effort between the Group and SNU aims to advance battery technologies and foster industry-academia cooperation to establish global leadership in the battery field. In the case of general industry-academia research, additional time and cost are inevitable to apply the results to mass-produced products.

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Video Friday: Beyond the Limit

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KIMLAB ] Marwa Eldiwiny is a PhD student and Early Stages Researcher (ESR) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel whose current research focus is on modelling and simulating self-healing soft materials for industrial applications. MIT CSAIL ] This UPenn GRASP SFI Seminar is by E Farrell Helbling at Cornell, on Autonomy for Insect Scale Robots.

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Video Friday: Peep Handling

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The grasper can pick up a wide range of sizes and shape in power grasps and move them around in different axes without lifting the fingers. The ability to re-orient objects in a power grasp provides unique value to both industrial and domestic applications. Sigh, I wish my fingers could do that.

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U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce

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economy, there’s a potential problem: Where will the industry find the qualified workforce needed to run these plants and design the chips they’ll make? The United States today manufactures just 12 percent of the world’s chips, down from 37 percent in 1990, according to a September 2020 report by the Semiconductor Industry Association.

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