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ION Storage Systems to partner with U Maryland on $4.8M ARPA-E EVs4ALL award

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ION) will participate in the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) EVs4ALL program as part of a $­4.8-million million grant awarded to the University of Maryland (UMD). ION Storage Systems Inc. Earlier post.)

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Sandia testing method yields pathway to better, longer-lasting solid-state batteries

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The team found that a large part of the electrical potential of the battery was getting lost at the boundary between the electrolyte and the anode (negative) terminal. The work was done in collaboration with NIST, Naval Research Labs, University of Maryland College Park and Brown University.

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U. Maryland and Redox Power partnering to commercialize low-temperature solid oxide fuel cells for distributed generation and transportation

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University of Maryland researchers have partnered with Redox Power Systems LLC to commercialize low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell (LT-SOFC) technology for distributed generation—and ultimately transportation—applications at about one-tenth the cost and one-tenth the size of current commercial fuel cell systems.

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Battery500 Consortium awarded $75M for Phase 2 of research

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The new funding, provided by the Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO), is part of $209 million awarded by VTO for advancing electric vehicles, batteries, and connected vehicles ( earlier post ).

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Inside the Universe Machine: The Webb Space Telescope’s Chilly Sun Shield

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After more than 25 years’ work and technological hurdles beyond counting, the Webb team has launched and stationed its mammoth observatory in solar orbit—and brought its instruments below 40 kelvins (minus 233 ºC), cold enough to see the early universe more than 13.5 billion years ago.

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Univ. of Maryland researchers using modified Tobacco Mosaic Virus as template for Li-ion electrodes

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An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Maryland’s A. Because TMV can be programmed to bind directly to metal, the resulting components are lighter, stronger and less expensive than conventional parts. Micrograph of electrode and image of individual nanorod showing core/shell structure. Resources.

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Advanced Biofuels USA receives USDA grant for feasibility study of eastern shore energy beet-to-jetfuel project

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The US Department of Agriculture has provided $16,893 to Advanced Biofuels USA , a Maryland-based 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization, for a feasibility study of producing bio-jetfuel from energy beets grown on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Can this process be optimized to improve job creation and profit opportunities?

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