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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

With oxygen in the air acting as an oxidant, the catalyst species produces this effect even under dark conditions at room temperature without requiring light irradiation, as is usually the case with oxidation. This technology utilizes organic nitroxyl radical oxidation catalysts (radical catalysts).

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AUGUST 13, 2020

The vehicle proposes an application of the emissions-free light-duty truck to make essential garbage collection services more efficient and environmentally conscious. The FUSO eCanter has so far proven itself as a reliable all-electric light-duty truck in customer operations with more than 160 vehicles running in Japan, Europe and USA.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Organic materials for batteries have received much attention because of their beneficial properties such as light weight, flexibility and availability from easily accessible natural sources. Versatility of chemical structures is a benefit of functional materials based on organic molecules. Extended charge?discharge

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MARCH 20, 2014

Findings from a study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Berkeley National Laboratory suggest that lubricating oil is the dominant source of primary organic aerosol (POA) from both gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles. 7500 light duty, 50?200 Credit: ACS, Worton et al. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a method to convert CO 2 directly into aviation fuel using a novel, inexpensive iron-based catalyst. The conversion reaction also produces light olefins—ethylene, propylene, and butenes—totalling a yield of 8.7%. and selectivity to C 8 –C 16 hydrocarbons of 47.8%

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OCTOBER 29, 2022

Together with eleQtron, ParityQC, QUDORA Technologies and the Technical University of Hamburg, NXP will pool expertise from across the industry to enable rapid advances in quantum computing and help roll out scalable and marketable solutions in the near future. —Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla, Chair of the DLR Executive Board.

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APRIL 20, 2023

The revoLect project (“High-efficiency electrodes with ultra-light fabric-based current collectors for lithium-ion batteries”) is pursuing two key innovations: replacing the usual metal foils with a metallized fabric structure and using silicon as the anode material.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2020

Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego and their colleagues have designed 3D-printed, coral-inspired structures capable of growing dense populations of microscopic algae. the algae that lives in association with corals in the wild.

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JUNE 15, 2015

A team at McGill University in Canada has developed a reversible hydrogen storage/release system based on the metal-catalyzed hydrogenation and photo-induced dehydrogenation of organic cyclic hydrocarbons at room temperature. under visible light illumination (420–600 nm) without any other energy input. .

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

PCC 6803—and demonstrated that the organism remained stable through at least four generations, producing ethylene gas that could be easily captured. The organism produced ethylene at a high rate and is still being improved. into a cyanobacterium— Synechocystis sp. Up to 5.5% 1 , or 171 mg L ? —Ungerer et al.

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Cars That Think

MAY 24, 2024

This makes it hard to develop tiny autonomous drones, which are too small and light for heavy hardware and big batteries. Science ] In the beginning of the universe, all was darkness — until the first organisms developed sight, which ushered in an explosion of life, learning and progress.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Is there a better way for scientists to shine a light on nerve cells throughout the body? Optogenetics is an interdisciplinary branch of science in which cells are genetically altered to be light-sensitive, making it possible to inhibit or excite cells and to study their function by applying colored light.

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APRIL 29, 2020

An international research collaboration has developed a novel, porous, and hydrophobic metal–organic framework (MOF) based on copper ions and carborane–carboxylate ligands that can efficiently separate biobutanol from the broth of fermented biomass needed for the fuel’s production. —Gan et al. Lei Gan, Arunraj Chidambaram, Pol G.

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AUGUST 5, 2020

while working with the Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) and the University of Hawaii College of Engineering to extend the deployment of connected vehicle infrastructure across the entire state of Hawaii with C-V2X. Applied Information will exclusively implement C-V2X technologies developed by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2020

Improvements in the lifecycle energy consumption of products of interest: This includes jet engine efficiency; materials and shape optimization for light-weighting in transport technologies; semiconductor electrical efficiency; and recycling and reuse for industrial-scale materials production and processing waste.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Working with collaborators at the University of Michigan and Toyota Motor North America, the team is sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) as part of its Next-Generation Energy Technologies for Connected and Automated On-Road Vehicles (NEXTCAR) program. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 10, 2021

The researchers say that their findings, recently published in an open-access paper in the journal Science Advances , are key to understanding how the universe evolved with the growth of carbon compounds. That insight could also help the car industry make cleaner combustion engines. —Zhao et al.

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MARCH 2, 2020

Atmospheric soot particles as seen under a transmission electron microscope are coated by organic and inorganic materials. Scientists for years have approximated black carbon particles as spherically shaped in models that frequently became coated by other organic materials. —Laura Fierce, lead author.

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JANUARY 2, 2021

Using light metal hydrides as hydrogen carriers offers potential for safe and compact storage of hydrogen. Now, a team led by researchers from Zhejiang University in China has achieved ambient-temperature reversibility of hydrogen storage for MgH 2 by fabricating non-confined ultrafine nanoparticles. However, bulk MgH 2 is stable (?H

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JUNE 25, 2021

Rice University engineers have led the development of a process that uses functionalized graphene quantum dots to trap transition metals for higher metal loading single-atom catalysis. Credit: Wang Group/Rice University). Rice University and The Welch Foundation supported the research. —Haotian Wang.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Neutron scattering analysis performed at ORNL shows the lamellar structure of a hydrogen-producing, biohybrid composite material formed by the self-assembly of naturally occurring, light harvesting proteins with polymers. Eventually, the protein could be synthetically produced and optimized to respond to light. Source: ORNL.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

But the see-through technology faces a big barrier to reaching mainstream adoption: organic materials degrade relatively quickly as they bake in the sunlight. A new approach by the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor might dramatically extend the working life of solar windows. Transparent solar cells can transform buildings into.

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JUNE 8, 2021

As efforts accelerate to decarbonize energy sectors beyond light-duty transportation, applied risk assessment and modeling of large-scale deployment of these H2@Scale applications is required.

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JANUARY 14, 2024

He was a key figure in the creation of EIT Digital , an organization that invests in research and continuing education to bring new digital technologies to the European market. Saracco also taught courses on technology forecasting and market impact at the University of Trento in Italy. The organization supports Ph.D.

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JUNE 11, 2019

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed nanobio-hybrid organisms capable of using airborne carbon dioxide and nitrogen to produce a variety of plastics and fuels, a promising first step toward low-cost carbon sequestration and eco-friendly manufacturing for chemicals. Ding et al. —Ding et al.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

The NSF Engineering Research Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources ( CISTAR ) will develop technologies for responsible conversion of alkanes—light hydrocarbons including methane, ethane and propane—into more valuable liquid fuels, including gasoline and diesel fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2020

The resulting glassy polymer membranes demonstrated nonthermal membrane fractionation of light crude oil through a combination of class- and size-based “sorting” of molecules. With this application in mind, we created spirocyclic polymers with N-aryl bonds that demonstrated noninterconnected microporosity in the absence of ladder linkages.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Industrial and university partners will contribute additional funding and critical resources, augmented with expertise from national laboratories and national and international research organizations. CISTAR was recently chosen by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as one of their Engineering Research Centers (ERCs).

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Universal Display Corp. OLEDs—organic light-emitting diodes—convert electrical energy directly into photons. When current passes through an OLED, electrons leave the cathode and holes leave the anode; they recombine in the central emissive layer, joining into excitons and releasing either light or heat as they decay.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 31, 2023

.” Art Wheaton, director of labor studies at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, also noted that the UAW’s deals against the Detroit Big Three would likely result in non-union automakers like Tesla, Toyota, and Honda feeling some pressure.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

A new study, led by academics at St John’s College, University of Cambridge, has used semi-artificial photosynthesis to explore new ways to produce and store solar energy. Their method also managed to absorb more solar light than natural photosynthesis. Katarzyna P.

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DECEMBER 6, 2009

A team of researchers from the US and Germany has identified the protein LHCSR—an ancient light-harvesting protein—as the molecular photo-protective mechanism that acts to prevent green algae from absorbing too much sunlight during photosynthesis and suffering oxidation damage as a consequence. —Krishna Niyogi, Berkeley Lab.

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MAY 9, 2018

A research group from the University of Turku, Finland, has developed a new protocol to deliver sustained hydrogen photoproduction in green algae under a train of strong white light pulses interrupted by longer dark phases. Efficient H 2 photoproduction in green algae occurs in the light after a period of dark anaerobic incubation.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Pennsylvania has awarded more than $3 million in Fuel Incentive Grants (AFIG) to 33 companies, counties and organizations making the switch to compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied natural gas (LNG), or propane for medium to light-weight fleet vehicles. This year, AFIG grants focused on medium- to light-weight vehicles.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

Grove Award “for contributions to materials for nanoscale electronics and organic light-emitting devices.” She joined IBM Research in Zurich in 1998 while pursuing her doctorate in physics in collaboration with the University of Bayreuth , also in Germany. Riel is the recipient of this year’s IEEE Andrew S.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The vision document also explores the synergies between light-duty and heavy-duty fueling infrastructure, the opportunities for renewable hydrogen and the role of hydrogen in the increasingly renewable electrical grid. Source: “The California Fuel Cell Revolution”.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2022

The Jellyfishbot is studded with sensors that not only allow it to navigate autonomously, but also measure the quality of the water in terms of salinity, temperature, turbidity, and the proliferation of organisms, including cyanobacteria and phytoplankton. Mark Stone/University of Washington AI on the Fusion Menu.

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