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DOE awarding $19.4M to 22 advanced vehicle technologies projects; Mercedes-Benz, GM Li-S battery projects

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University of Maryland: College Park. Research innovative iron-based materials for high energy cathodes for high energy lithium ion battery technologies. Research thick cathodes using freeze casting methods for solid-state lithium batteries. Penn State University Park. University of Maryland: College Park.

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First crop of DOE Battery500 seedlings awarded nearly $6M; high-risk, high-reward toward 500 Wh/kg

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University of Maryland: College Park. Research innovative iron-based materials for high energy cathodes for high energy lithium ion battery technologies. Research thick cathodes using freeze casting methods for solid-state lithium batteries. Penn State University Park. University of Maryland: College Park.

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PNNL licenses three technologies via Startup America; batteries, fuel cells and buildings

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Vorbeck, a manufacturer and developer of applications using its proprietary graphene material ( earlier post ), optioned the technology for use in a graphene-based electrode for lithium-air and lithium-sulfur batteries.

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3 winners of DOE’s “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator” Challenge: hydrogen-assisted lean-burn engines, graphene for Li-air and -sulfur batteries, and titanium process

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The three winning companies are: Umpqua Energy , a startup company based in Medford, Oregon, is using an Argonne National Laboratory technology to develop a system that allows a gasoline engine to operate in an extreme lean burn mode in order to increase gasoline mileage.

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