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Solvay to produce silica from rice husk ash for tires in Europe, expansion plans in N America

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Solvay is investing at its Livorno, Italy site to launch the company’s first unit of circular highly dispersible silica (HDS) made with bio-based sodium silicate derived from rice husk ash (RHA). This new generation of precipitated silica will also address the needs of the home & personal care and the feed & food industries.

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Horizon Unveiling Small Hydrogen Refueling and Storage System for the Home

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Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies will introduce a “personal hydrogen station”—HydroFill—at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. HydroPak offers 60W output (120W peak) using water-activated sodium borohydride cartridges supplied by Horizon. The system has a generating capacity of 200 Wh.

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Gulf oil giants Saudi Aramco, Adnoc set sights on lithium – ET Auto

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One of the people said Aramco was working on using new filtration technology that seeks to solve the issue of concentration, while another person said Adnoc was also addressing that. “They have done good work, they have done good extractions of sodium, magnesium, and traces of lithium.

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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Personalized health care could revolutionize traditional medical practice,” Gao says. This second-generation e-skin sandwiched thin sheets of Teflon, copper, and polyimide that slide as the person moves, generating maximum power of 0.94 But to incorporate many different types of sensors, we need different material designs and tools.

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ANL team develops new class of Li- and Na- rechargeable batteries based on selenium and selenium-sulfur; greater volumetric energy densities than sulfur-based batteries

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Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have developed selenium and selenium–sulfur (Se x S y )-based cathode materials for a new class of room-temperature lithium and sodium batteries. g), and it is included, in trace quantities, in supplements and personal care items. Click to enlarge. V) without failure. S y systems.

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Researchers call for integration of materials sustainability into battery research; the need for in situ monitoring

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In their paper, they discuss key advances in both more sustainable chemistries and operando techniques, along with some of the remaining challenges and possible solutions, as we personally perceive them. Substantial progress in battery technology is essential if we are to succeed in an energy transition towards a more carbon-neutral society.

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PARC building cleantech portfolio; co-extrusion printing of novel battery electrodes and carbon-neutral renewable liquid fuels from atmospheric CO2

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PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), the home of a long line of technology innovations, including laser printing, object-oriented programming, and personal workstations with graphical user interfaces (e.g., The technique uses a solvent such as sodium or potassium hydroxides, converted by reacting with CO 2 to aqueous carbonates or bicarbonates.

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