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QUILL researchers showcasing ionic liquid-based processes for removing mercury from natural gas, capturing CO2

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Researchers from QUILL —the Queen’s University (Belfast) Ionic Liquid Laboratories—will display a novel process for removing toxic mercury from natural gas using ionic liquids at the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition. It’s also how we tailor?make make ionic liquids to trap carbon dioxide.

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With this Ruby Laser, George Porter Sped up Photochemistry

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student in chemistry at the University of Cambridge in 1945, he found the equipment there “remarkably primitive,” as he told an interviewer in later life. George Porter’s flash of insight at a lighting factory On a trip to collect a mercury arc lamp for the searchlight, Porter saw flash lamps being made at a Siemens factory.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

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At Northeastern University , in Boston, Matteo Rinaldi's group has demonstrated an event-driven sensor that could help detect a forest fire by reacting to the infrared light emitted from a hot object. Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University. Tiny forces can actuate them and thus power electronic circuits embedded within the silicon.

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Will an EV-Filled World Pass The Sulfuric Acid Test?

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The minerals that contain sulfur often also tend to contain toxic metals like mercury, arsenic, and thallium. Jean-Michel Lavoie, University of Sherbrooke In swept the fossil fuel industry’s waste to save the day. The Frasch process can be tremendously damaging to the surrounding environment and mineworkers’ health.

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KULR Technology exclusive manufacturer and distributor of Li-ion battery Internal Short Circuit (ISC) devices developed by NASA, NREL

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Working with University College London in the UK, we have been able to use synchrotron imaging to watch failures in real time which allows us to design solutions. KULR will begin shipping the ISC and ISC trigger cells in October, 2018. The ISC is a major step towards making battery technologies safer.