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AUGUST 13, 2021

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) Swanson School of Engineering are working with Powdermet Inc. , Most electric motors for electric vehicles rely on permanent magnets made with rare-earth metals, which are a limited resource. Brandt A.

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MAY 31, 2019

Long-term exposure to ambient ozone appears to accelerate arterial conditions that progress into cardiovascular disease and stroke, according to a new University at Buffalo study. The longitudinal study followed nearly 7,000 people aged 45 to 84 from six US regions: Winston-Salem, North Carolina; New York City; Baltimore; St.

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MAY 3, 2022

A team of researchers from North Carolina State University, SINTEF in Norway and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, has developed a polymer membrane technology that removes carbon dioxide from mixed gases with both high permeability and high selectivity. Marius Sandru et al.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources. University of Alabama. University of North Dakota. North Carolina State University. Oregon State University.

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JULY 27, 2018

Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), with colleagues from North Carolina State University and the University of Connecticut, have engineered the hyperthermophilic anaerobe Thermotoga maritima to produce 46% more hydrogen per cell than the wild type. The team’s highest reported yield—5.7

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

The project objective is to construct a new, commercial-scale lithium materials processing plant at Kings Mountain, North Carolina, that uses sustainably extracted spodumene minerals from the site’s lithium mine. Most of the world’s lithium resources are found in naturally occurring salt solutions, known as brines.

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MAY 21, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 42 university-led research and development projects for awards totaling $38 million. These projects, funded over three to four years through the Department’s Nuclear Energy University Program, are intended to help advance nuclear education and develop the next generation of nuclear technologies.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

A new study from North Carolina State University finds that while shared e-scooters may be greener than most cars, they can be less green than several other options, including, in some cases, buses. Their open-access paper is published in the journal E.nvironmental Research Letters. —Jeremiah Johnson.

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APRIL 15, 2011

At the SAE 2011 World Congress in Detroit, Michigan, US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, David Sandalow, announced the official launch of the EcoCAR 2 : Plugging into the Future competition and the sixteen university teams selected to participate.

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OCTOBER 20, 2018

A new study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found that deaths related to air pollution in the US were nearly halved between 1990 and 2010. We’ve invested a lot of resources as a society to clean up our air. Trends in the total mortality burden (black) for PM 2.5 (a, Zhang et al.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

A January 2023 study from the University of Michigan found that “more than half of the lowest-income U.S. households (an estimated 8.3 Policy interventions are needed to increase EV accessibility so that all Americans can benefit from the EV transition.”

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APRIL 20, 2023

According to the Natural Resources Defense Council , climate change contributes to severe weather events such as hurricanes, flooding, and tornadoes, as well as long-term drought and regularly occurring heat events in traditionally moderate climate zones. The EPICS contest asked students and faculty at U.S. I’ve learned so many things.”

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JANUARY 17, 2019

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an artificial enzymatic pathway for synthesizing isoprenoids, or terpenes, in E. A paper on their work is published in the journal ACS Synthetic Biology. The work was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health (grant GM104258). 8b00383.

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JULY 13, 2016

The report uses scientific modeling systems to project biomass resource availability under specified economic and sustainability constraints. The first conducted in 2005, answered the fundamental question, “Do we have enough biomass resources to make a meaningful impact on our petroleum consumption?”

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JUNE 21, 2011

To reconstruct sea level, the scientists used microfossils called foraminifera preserved in sediment cores extracted from coastal salt marshes in North Carolina. The age of the cores was estimated using radiocarbon dating and other techniques. Kemp, Benjamin P. Horton, Jeffrey P. Donnelly, Michael E.

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JUNE 13, 2012

million for the creation of two new Biomass Crop Assistance Program ( BCAP ) project areas in New York and North Carolina, and the expansion of an already established BCAP project area in Arkansas. targeted for the heart of North Carolina, where it will grow more than 4,000 acres of Freedom Giant Miscanthus and switch grass.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Research in mesoscale atmospheric modeling by the University of North Carolina (UNC) Charlotte’s Amanda S. Adams and Harvard University’s David W. Current estimates of the global wind power resource over land range from 56 to 400 terawatts (TW). —Amanda Adams. 8 015021 doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015021.

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JULY 19, 2016

The paper by the team from Tsinghua University, Duke University, NASA Goddard Institue for Space Studies and North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics is published in the journal Nature Climate Change. The total number of vessels observed in 2013 in this region is 18,324.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Source: University of Leicester. Source: University of Leicester. Cooper, from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, chairs the TOAR Steering Committee and has been working to develop the assessment since 2014. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Owen Cooper.

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JUNE 4, 2018

ARPA-E developed this funding opportunity in close coordination with DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy, and MEITNER teams will have access to department modeling and simulation resources as they develop their concepts. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Enabling Load Following Capability in the Transatomic Power MSR – $774,879.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The study was supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (R01ES025888), the National Institute on Aging (R01AG033078, R21AG051113, R01AG033078, RF1AG054068 and RF1AG054068), the Southern California Environmental Health (5P30ES007048), the National Institutes of Health (P50AG047366, P50AG05142).

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Since the 1980s, air pollution has increased worldwide, but it has increased at a much faster pace in regions close to the equator. But continuing aircraft and satellite observations of ozone across the tropics can monitor the situation and model forecasts can guide decision making for controlling global ozone pollution. —Owen R.

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MARCH 26, 2010

Holland, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Plant Science Research Unit at North Carolina State University. Lines with strong photoperiod response were identified as those flowering much later in North Carolina, compared to Florida. Coles, Michael D. McMullen, Peter J. Pratt, and James B.

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JANUARY 24, 2014

Researchers at North Carolina State University and Duke University have shown that a one-atom thick film of molybdenum sulfide (MoS 2 ) may work as an effective catalyst for creating hydrogen. While not as efficient as platinum, the MoS 2 think films are relatively inexpensive.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Researchers led by chemist Joseph DeSimone at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in collaboration with Nitash P. Balsara at UC Berkeley, have identified a new class of nonflammable electrolytes based on functionalized perfluoropolyethers (PFPEs) for lithium-ion batteries. It was an unexpected result. Dominica H.

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

Researchers from North Carolina State University have å a new technique that allows users to better determine the amount of charge remaining in a battery in real time. Habiballah Rahimi-Eichi and Mo-Yuen Chow (2012) Adaptive Parameter Identification and State-of-Charge Estimation of Lithium-Ion Batteries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2012

Researchers at North Carolina State University have identified the origin of the nonlinear dielectric response and high energy density of polyvinylidene-fluoride-based (PVDF) polymers enabling capacitors to store and release large amounts of energy quickly. Resources. —Vivek Ranjan. Buongiorno Nardelli and J.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

The Bioenergy Technologies Office is working to produce cost-competitive ($3/gallon of gasoline equivalent) advanced biofuels from non-food biomass resources that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% or more versus petroleum-based alternatives. Metabolix in collaboration with North Carolina State University.

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APRIL 9, 2019

A study by a team from North Carolina State University, with colleagues from the Urban Air Initiative and 3DATX Corporation, has shown that non-FFVs (flexible-fuel vehicles) can adapt to a mid-level ethanol blend—specifically E27. The study was commissioned by the Urban Air Initiative. — Yuan et al. Weichang Yuan, H.

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MAY 10, 2016

The researchers attributed the enhanced electrochemical properties to the increase in surface area and shortened Li + diffusion lengths because of the nanoscale primary particles and porous structure of the synthesized LTO particles. 6b00895.

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AUGUST 17, 2016

The research teams include experts from universities and other national labs. A longtime user of NERSC supercomputers, Louie has a dual appointment as Senior Faculty Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab and Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Chelikowsky, University of Texas, Austin.

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DECEMBER 24, 2015

The researchers noted that magnesium is an abundant resource and that scaling up its use would not cause environmental damage. Chen is now an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology. of Minneapolis; and Suveen Mathaudhu of UC Riverside.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Researchers at the Future Renewable Electric Energy Distribution and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center at North Carolina State University have developed an inverter for hybrid and electric vehicles using off-the-shelf components made of the wide-bandgap semiconductor material silicon carbide (SiC). kW/L by 2020.

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MARCH 26, 2013

Researchers at the University of Georgia and North Carolina State University have used a unique temperature-dependent approach in engineering a hyperthermophilic archaeon, Pyrococcus furiosus to be able to use CO 2 and hydrogen to produce 3-hydroxypropionic acid, one of the top 12 industrial chemical building blocks.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

program; and create the DriveElectricMN.org website as an online resource. North Carolina State. University, North. Carolina Solar Center. The Alternative Fuel Implementation Team (AFIT) for North Carolina project. University of Central. Bay Area Air Quality. Management District.

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MAY 28, 2010

The Hub, which includes partners from universities, industry and other national labs, will use advanced modeling and simulation capabilities (e.g., They will be managed by top teams of scientists and engineers with enough resources and authority to move quickly in response to new developments. University of Michigan.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Researchers at Auburn University and North Carolina State University have shown that using a simple pretreatment process—torrefaction—improves the quality of bio-oil produced via catalytic fast pyrolysis. Srinivasan et al. Click to enlarge. Energy & Fuels doi: 10.1021/ef301469t.

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