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The team of the University of Maryland is the winner of the 2012 Hydrogen Student Design Contest, announced on Sunday by the US Department of Energy at the Young Scientist Symposium of the World Hydrogen Energy Conference 2012 in Toronto, Canada.
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.
The National Science Foundation has selected a project by researchers at the University of Maryland and their partners from Genovation Cars ( earlier post ) for a $438,418 GOALI (Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry) award to develop a novel hybrid energy storage system for electric vehicles.
Credit: Maryland NanoCenter Click to enlarge. Engineers at the University of Maryland have created a solid-state Li-ion battery that is made entirely out of one material. The Maryland team took a radically different approach to solve the problem of what happens at the interface between the electrolyte and the electrode.
We first understand battery degradation through collaborations with the CALCE group at the University of Maryland, where in-house degradation testing of batteries was carried out. By contrast, our work is built from the ground up.
million grant awarded to the University of Maryland (UMD). ION Storage Systems Inc. ION) will participate in the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) EVs4ALL program as part of a $4.8-million Earlier post.)
Source: Estimated for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics by the Maryland Transportation Institute and Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory at the University of Maryland. The trips included driving, rail, transit, and air.
Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a nanocomposite material of amorphous, porous FePO 4 nanoparticles electrically wired by single-wall carbon nanotubes as a potential cathode material for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). Systematic diagram for the nanocomposite of SWNT?amorphous amorphous porous FePO 4.
Researchers at the University of Maryland have improved the cycle life of silicon/carbon matrix-composite electrodes by 300%, even at mass loadings, solely by the chemical tailoring of the interface between the silicon and the carbon with atomic oxygen. Interfacial oxygen between the silicon and carbon improves electrode performance.
Fuel cell designer and manufacturer Ballard Power Systems, with founding partners University of Maryland (UMD) and US Department of Defense Army Research Laboratory (ARL), has launched a new center of excellence for the advancement of fuel processing technology.
For example, the University of California, San Diego will receive approximately $3.5 University of Houston. The University of Houston (UH) will develop a battery using a novel water-based, lithium-ion chemistry that makes use of sustainable, low-cost, high-energy, organic materials. Princeton University. Description.
Source: Estimated for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics by the Maryland Transportation Institute and Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory at the University of Maryland. Multiple stays of longer than 10 minutes before returning home was counted as multiple trips.
University of Maryland, College Park: Garnet Electrolyte Based Safe, Lithium-Sulfur Energy Storage. Proposals for Phase II were received from federally funded research and development centers, universities and industry. The selected awardees, and their project titles, are: Amprius Inc.
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A team at the University of Maryland has demonstrated that a material consisting of a thin tin (Sn) film deposited on a hierarchical conductive wood fiber substrate is an effective anode for a sodium-ion (Na-ion) battery, and addresses some of the limitations of other Na-ion anodes such as capacity fade due to pulverization.
Kohn and Seon-Woo Kim are faculty members at the University of Maryland where the organisms were first discovered. The US Patent and Trademark Office has issued patent Nº 9,193,979 for ethanol-tolerant microorganisms that convert cellulosic biomass to ethanol. Inventors Richard A. Earlier post.) corn stalks), algae, or leaves.
The Research Consortia funded are: Lead Institution: The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute. Lead Institution: Texas A&M University at College Station. Lead Institution: Florida State University. Lead Institution: Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. Lead Institution: University of South Florida.
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During the IARPA Robust Energy Sources for Intelligence Logistics in Extreme Novel and Challenging Environments (RESILIENCE) project, Solid Power plans to collaborate with the University of Maryland to develop a nano-scale iron sulfide pyrite (FeS 2 ) cathode that is largely composed of iron and sulfur.
Researchers at the University of Maryland, with colleagues at the University of Illinois at Chicago, report on a new method for expanding graphite for use as a superior anode for sodium-ion batteries in a paper in Nature Communications. 1 at a current density of 20?
University of Maryland (UMD) and US Army Research Lab (ARL) researchers are spearheading a public-private sector collaboration to further develop a lithium-ion battery that would be safer to operate and less costly to dispose of than those currently available on the market. Earlier post.)
Illinois Basin (Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Tennessee): Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois aims to lead a project to evaluate the domestic occurrence of strategic elements in coal, coal-based resources and waste streams from coal use. DOE Funding: $1,483,787. DOE Funding: $1,500,000. DOE Funding: $1,499,817.
Advanced High Energy Rechargeable Lithium-Sulfur Batteries, submitted by Indiana University in Bloomington. Garnet Electrolyte Based Safe, Lithium-Sulfur Energy Storage, submitted by the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Researchers at the University of Minnesota have demonstrated a new method for the direct conversion of heat to electricity using a multiferroic alloy, Ni 45 Co 5 Mn 40 Sn 10 , which they had discovered earlier (Srivastava 2010). An open access paper on the work appears in the journal Advanced Energy Materials.
Researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) led by Chunsheng Wang—a professor with joint appointments in the Departments of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE), and Chemistry & Biochemistry—have developed a highly reversible 5.3
Researchers at the University of Maryland, led by Dr. Sang Bok Lee, have published a review of advanced heterogeneous nanostructured materials for use in future electrochemical energy storage systems in the RSC journal Chemical Communications. high energy density, high conductivity, and excellent mechanical stability).we
University of Colorado, Boulder. The University of Colorado Boulder will lead a multi-institutional team to develop a data-driven framework of physical testing and modeling to enable the gas industry to better evaluate products to rehabilitate cast iron and steel natural gas pipes and enhance their performance and longevity.
a Maryland-based industrial biotechnology company that develops products for the renewable chemicals and advanced fuels industries. The genome of the Z-microbe has been fully sequenced by researchers at the University of Maryland. Steve Hutcheson, founder of Zymetis and professor at the University of Maryland.
Beyond PNNL, collaborators continuing from Phase 1 are Brookhaven National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Binghamton University, the University of Texas at Austin, Stanford University, the University of California at San Diego, and the University of Washington.
The University of Maryland (UMD) Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) has been award ed a $1.1million US Department of Energy (DOE) grant to elucidate the mechanism of rust pathogenesis in poplar in an effort to engineer durable resistance for this important, second-generation biofuel crop. Eisenstein.
The universities receiving the funding through EPA’s Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program include: Colorado State University, to gain insights on how emissions from wildfires and volatile chemical products (for example, personal care products, cleaning agents, and coatings) contribute to the formation of fine particles in the atmosphere.
Researchers at the University of Maryland have designed a flexible lithium-ion conducting ceramic textile featuring fast lithium-ion conductors, good electrochemical stability, and scalable processing approaches to device integration for solid-state lithium metal batteries. Earlier post.).
The research team, led by NASA and University of California, Irvine, scientists, used data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment ( GRACE ) satellite mission to track changes in the mass of the Colorado River Basin, which are related to changes in water amount on and below the surface.
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?
The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at 11 universities and one non-profit research organization. million to the University of Maine (Orono, Me.)
Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) and the Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS), University of Maryland School of Medicine, published the sequence and analysis of the castor bean ( Ricinus communis ) genome in Nature Biotechnology. A research team co-led by scientists from the J.
Researchers at the University of Maryland and Yeshiva University report the synthesis of PtMo alloy and MoO x @Pt core-shell nanoparticles (NPs). The work was supported by funding from the US Department of Energy and the University of Maryland Energy Research Center (UMERC). Zhufang Liu, Jenny E.
University of Maryland: College Park. Penn State University Park. University of Maryland: College Park. University of Pittsburgh. Cornell University. University of Maryland: College Park. Wayne State University. Oregon State University. SUNY University at Stony Brook.
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The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University. The Ohio State University.
Boston University. Stanford University. University of Wisconsin, Madison. West Virginia University. University of Connecticut. University of Maryland. The projects include: ?. Topic Area 1: Electrochemical Performance Enhancement Activity. Topic Area 2: Durability of Cathode Materials.
The study led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln assistant professor Adam Liska, funded through a three-year, $500,000-grant from the US Department of Energy, used carbon dioxide measurements taken from 2001 to 2010 to validate a soil carbon model that was built using data from 36 field studies across North America. —Bentsen et al.
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