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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic forced colleges and universities to close classrooms and shift to remote learning, prompting instructors to adapt their curricula and teaching style. The IEEE Teaching Excellence Hub is meant to help all university staff access resources and tools they can use in the ever-adapting world of education."

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OCTOBER 13, 2019

A new material that can selectively capture CO 2 molecules and efficiently convert them into useful organic materials has been developed by researchers at Kyoto University, along with colleagues at the University of Tokyo and Jiangsu Normal University in China. —Wu et al.

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APRIL 3, 2022

Liquid organic hydrogen carriers are flexible media for the storage and transportation of renewable energy. Liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs) technology is one of the promising solutions for safe transportation of hydrogen. This collaboration comes at a timely moment, on the back of rising oil prices.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Building on earlier work, researchers in China have fabricated a hierarchical metal-organic nanocomposite for use as a cathode in sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). 2017) “In-Situ Formed Hierarchical Metal-Organic Flexible Cathode for High-Energy Sodium-Ion Batteries” ChemSusChem doi: 10.1002/cssc.201701484. —Huang et al. and Huang, Y.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

Researchers at Columbia University, with colleagues at Boston University and Abt Associates, have identified concentration-response (C-R) functions for a number of adverse health outcomes in children associated with air pollutants largely from fossil fuel combustion. Resources. Ashrafi, P. 2018.12.016.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

After animals die, rapid biological and chemical processes begin to destroy cells and organs. Though the preliminary research is far from being used with humans, the researchers say that it could eventually help keep organs viable for donations for longer after an organ donor dies.

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JUNE 26, 2018

A international team of researchers, led by Lancaster University in the UK and Jilin University in China, reports the first organically synthesized sp?sp D Organically Synthesized Porous Carbon.” sp 3 hybridized porous carbon, OSPC?1. date and the ability to inhibit dangerous lithium dendrite formation. Heasman, P.,

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

A team from Monash University, a leading university in Australia, and the Toyota Research Institute North America (TRINA), a division of Toyota Motor North America R&D (TMNA) based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, reports a novel family of closo-boron-cluster based room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs). Photo Credit: Dr. Mega Kar.

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AUGUST 13, 2023

A joint research team from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and collaborators have developed a stable artificial photocatalytic system that is more efficient than natural photosynthesis. Photo credit: (left) Professor Ye Ruquan’s research group / City University of Hong Kong and (right) Biophysical Journal, 99:67-75, 2010.

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MAY 8, 2023

Researchers led by a team at Temple University have developed a soft solid electrolyte—(Adpn) 2 LiPF 6 (Adpn, adiponitrile)—that exhibits high thermal and electrochemical stability and good ionic conductivity, overcoming several limitations of conventional organic and ceramic materials. Resources Prakash, P.,

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Industrial and university partners will contribute additional funding and critical resources, augmented with expertise from national laboratories and national and international research organizations.

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AUGUST 13, 2022

As a research-first organization, the Institute will work on solving the most important and difficult challenges facing the creation of advanced robots. In addition to developing technology with its own staff, the Institute plans to partner with universities and corporate research labs. Earlier post.).

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JULY 5, 2023

This year it included events , online resources , and special offers on educational products and services. From preuniversity STEM programs and university offerings to continuing professional education courses and tutorials, IEEE Education Week highlights the many ways to engage with education across the enterprise.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. candidate in computational imaging at BU, Greene continues to be involved with the honor society by mentoring grad students and organizing events to engage alumni. Now a Ph.D.

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JUNE 27, 2014

Scientists at USC have developed a novel water-based Organic Redox Flow Battery (ORBAT) for lower cost, long lasting large-scale energy storage. ORBAT employs two different water-soluble organic redox couples on the positive and negative side of a flow battery. We have termed this battery an Organic Redox Flow Battery (ORBAT).

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MAY 18, 2020

Professor Yutaka Amao of the Osaka City University Artificial Photosynthesis Research Center and Ryohei Sato, a 1 st year Ph.D. The development of an effective catalyst is an important step in creating an artificial photosynthesis system that uses sunlight to convert carbon dioxide into organic molecules.

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MARCH 16, 2022

University programs are moving away from traditional lectures to flipped classrooms and hands-on labs, and from traditional textbooks to bite-size digital media, with an increased focus on engaging students as they grow. It also offers discounts for students, engineers, and technical professionals all over the globe.

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MAY 17, 2021

We have tested similar farm designs in New England and Alaska, but this will be the first test of the array in warm tropical waters where we expect higher fouling rates from other marine organisms, UV damage, and threats from hurricanes. —Loretta Roberson. Additional farms are being tested in Florida and Belize to assess scalability.

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JULY 20, 2023

Researchers from the University of Bialystok (Poland), the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and colleagues have achieved the highest specific capacitance value reported of 638 F g −1 in aqueous acidic solutions by combining spherical carbon nanostructures with covalent triazine-based frameworks. Resources Hryniewicka, A.,

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MAY 3, 2021

On 19 April, Orocobre announced a $4-billion merger with Galaxy Resources to create a lithium major. Preliminary research has shown that lithium ions transport through the metal organic framework nanoparticles at “unprecedented” rates. Earlier post.) EnergyX and Orocobre plan to deploy their pilots in the near future. Source: EnergyX.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2018

A team led by Kanazawa University in Japan has developed a cleaner method for the recycling of several rare earths (REs) such as yttrium (Y) and europium (Eu) used as phosphors in fluorescent lamps (FLs). Chelators—organic compounds containing elements such as N or O—bond to metals through electron donation.

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APRIL 15, 2022

“When I was learning data structures, I began to see things from a different viewpoint—how to make things efficient,” says Lu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and a university faculty scholar at Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering , in West Lafayette, Ind.

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AUGUST 4, 2014

South Africa-based Anglo American Platinum , the world’s leading primary producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), has invested in the first close of the Series A financing round of Hydrogenious Technologies, a company developing liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) hydrogen storage technology. The round was fully funded by Anglo American.

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MARCH 10, 2010

Scientists from IBM and Stanford University are developing organic molecules for use as catalysts (organocatalysis) that could lead to the development of new types of biodegradable, biocompatible plastics. Kiesewetter, Eun Ji Shin, James L. Hedrick and Robert M. Macromolecules , 43 (5), pp 2093–2107 doi: 10.1021/ma9025948.

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MAY 6, 2013

A research team from the University of Michigan has nearly doubled the efficiency of certain organic thermoelectric materials. These convert heat into electricity more than four times as efficiently as the organic semiconductors created to date. for organic semiconductors. Resources. Zhang & K.

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JUNE 8, 2023

In a recent open-access paper published in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology , researchers from the University of York report that alcohols in windshield washer fluid account for a larger fraction of real-world vehicle emissions than previous estimates have suggested. Resources Samuel J. Cliff et al. Cliff, Alastair C.

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AUGUST 28, 2015

In a 23-year experiment, a team from Lund University, Sweden, and the University of New Hampshire has determined that the common understanding of how organic material is decomposed by fungi and bacteria is fundamentally wrong. —Johannes Rousk, researcher in Microbial Ecology at Lund University.

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MAY 16, 2017

Honda Research Institute (HRI), a Honda R&D subsidiary, and Boston University have agreed to begin joint research in the area of data security and privacy for artificial intelligence (AI) research. A first research project will investigate data privacy control using a technology called secure multi-party computation (MPC).

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JANUARY 28, 2018

Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) is a major component of fine particulate matter—which causes adverse health effects—even in urban environments; vehicles may be a dominant source of SOA in urban areas, although there is still an ongoing debate over SOA formation from on-road sources. —Zhao et al. Yunliang Zhao, Andrew T.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Organic materials for batteries have received much attention because of their beneficial properties such as light weight, flexibility and availability from easily accessible natural sources. Versatility of chemical structures is a benefit of functional materials based on organic molecules. Extended charge?discharge Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 12, 2013

Results of a study funded and released by the California Air Resources Board (ARB) suggest that the organic constituents of ultrafine PM (UFP, particles ? technology for the removal of the organic constituents as well as the reduction of the number of particles. PM comprises solid, liquid, and semi-volatile organic components.

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JULY 6, 2023

FluoRok, a spin-out of the University of Oxford developing a new method for the direct synthesis of high value fluorochemicals, announced £3 million (US$3.8 FluoRok was founded by Professor Véronique Gouverneur FRS together with Dr Gabriele Pupo, both originating from the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford. (In

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APRIL 20, 2023

Eight German partners are collaborating in a project, funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, to develop new technologies and components that can be used to produce lithium-ion batteries more efficiently and in a way that conserves resources.

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MAY 2, 2011

Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) can be used to recover low-grade waste heat. Mu (2011) Study of working fluid selection of organic Rankine cycle (ORC) for engine waste heat recovery. A paper on their work appears in the journal Energy. When a vehicle is running, the engine exhaust gas states have a wide range of variance. Zhang, B.Y.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

In the search for more effective PEMs, reseachers have looked to porous solids such as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) or covalent organic frameworks. However, there are few examples of proton conduction in porous organic molecular solids. … We demonstrate this concept for a range of crystalline porous organic cages.

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MAY 3, 2024

There are now more than 270 IEEE-HKN chapters at universities around the world. There are now 30 chapters outside the United States, including ones recently established at universities in Ecuador, Hungary, and India. In October the Nu Theta chapter debuted at Purdue University Northwest in Hammond, Ind.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Researchers at Columbia University have solved the first piece of the puzzle; they have proved that CO 2 electroreduction begins with one common intermediate, not two as was commonly thought. Their paper is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). —lead author Irina Chernyshova. 1802256115.

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