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JULY 31, 2020

SK Innovation will develop next-generation battery technology with University of Texas at Austin Professor John Goodenough, who was awarded a 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his foundational work on the lithium-ion battery.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Researchers from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of Illinois at Chicago have developed a room-temperature solid-state lithium-air battery that is rechargeable for 1,000 cycles with a low polarization gap and can operate at high rates.

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APRIL 15, 2012

A team of researchers from the US and China have developed novel polymer?graphene polymer with a stable skeleton and highly electroactive functional group can potentially be a high-power cathode candidate because its redox reaction intrinsically has faster kinetics than inorganic intercalation cathodes. Credit: ACS, Song et al.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered how nanoscale polymer films limit future cost reductions in fuel cell electric vehicles. Researchers agree that polymer electrolyte films that are only tens of nanometers thick are in some way responsible. The results were reported in a paper in the ACS journal Langmuir.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Various industry sources have stated that radiators for Class 8 Trucks running with low-temperature polymer electrolyte membrane (LT-PEM) technology are an enormous challenge. Superior Heat Management: Completely remove the external humidifiers/demisters and substantially reduce the size of the radiator.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A research team from Brown University and the University of Maryland has developed a new solid ion-conductor that combines copper with cellulose nanofibrils—polymer tubes derived from wood. In fact, we found this ion conductor achieved a record high ionic conductivity among all solid polymer electrolytes.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in Austria has launched the Christian Doppler (CD) Laboratory for Solid-State Batteries. —Daniel Rettenwander from the Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Materials at Graz University of Technology. Twelve CD labs are currently active at Graz University of Technology.

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OCTOBER 17, 2020

They replaced the all-copper conductor, middle, with a layer of lightweight polymer coated in ultrathin copper (top right), and embedded fire retardant in the polymer layer to quench flames (bottom right). Yusheng Ye/Stanford University). So scaling it up for commercial production, he said, “should be very doable.”

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JUNE 21, 2020

Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. The development of high-power fuel cells could advance the electrification of the transportation sector, including marine and air transport. Wittcoff Distinguished University Professor and corresponding author. —Vijay Ramani, the Roma B.

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JUNE 15, 2016

Using particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO), the researchers created a biocatalytic polymer material that converts methane to methanol. The enzymes retain up to 100% activity in the polymer construct. Remarkably, the enzymes retain up to 100 percent activity in the polymer. a) Schematic of PEG-pMMO hydrogel fabrication.

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JULY 21, 2020

Enabling Low Cost PEM Electrolysis at Scale Through Optimization of Transport Components and Electrode Interfaces. University of Kentucky. University of Virginia. Antioxidant Functionalized Polymers for Extended HD Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Lifetimes. University of Tennessee: Knoxville. . $4,854,808.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2015

The team, led by scientists from Harvard University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, employed a microfluidic assembly technique to produce microcapsules that contain liquid sorbents encased in highly permeable polymer shells. The polymer microcapsules are then heated to release absorbed CO 2 for subsequent collection.

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AUGUST 3, 2019

Plant cell walls resist chemical or biological degradation, making the breakdown of lignocellulosic biomass into renewable chemical precursors for conversion into chemicals and transportation fuels challenging and costly. As a result, economically viable methods of transforming biomass into biofuels have yet to be realized.

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AUGUST 26, 2015

University of Texas Austin. Vanderbilt University. High-Performance Li-Ion Battery Anodes from Electrospun Nanoparticle/Conducting Polymer Nanofibers This project will develop a novel electrospun anode material utilizing a conductive polymer binder. Polymer Plus. . $1,332,660. 1,014,352.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

(a) Chemical structure of the PEDT:PSSH polymer blend. (b) A team from the National University of Singapore's Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative (NUSNNI), led by principle investigator Dr. Xian Ning Xie, has developed a polystyrene membrane-based supercapacitor that they say will be easier to scale up than the current alternatives.

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APRIL 29, 2023

It was very curiosity-driven,” says Isak Engquist, a professor at Linköping University who led the effort. “We Isak Engquist, Linköping University Even though the wooden transistor still awaits its killer app, the idea to build wood-based electronics is not as crazy as it sounds. We thought: ‘Can we do it?

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Polymer Universal Water Transportation 145

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MARCH 22, 2011

Researchers at Case Western University have developed catalysts made of carbon nanotubes dipped in a polymer solution that equal the energy output and otherwise outperform platinum catalysts in fuel cells. Credit: ACS, Wang et al. Click to enlarge. A paper on their work is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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JULY 17, 2020

VTO research pathways focus on fuel diversification, vehicle efficiency, energy storage, lightweight materials, and new mobility technologies to improve the overall energy efficiency and affordability of the transportation system. The Research Foundation for The SUNY Stony Brook University. University of Delaware.

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APRIL 19, 2023

AEM electrolysis combines the respective technical advantages of polymer exchange membrane electrolysis (PEM) and alkaline electrolysis (AEL). In addition, porous transport layers (PTL) are optimized. Technologies such as pressurized alkaline or high-temperature electrolysis are already being installed in industrial environments.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

A team of researchers at MIT and Pennsylvania State University, which has been working on a new layer-by-layer (LbL) method for producing novel kinds of membranes, has developed a new solid-state polymer electrolyte for use in electrochemical devices such as fuel cells and batteries using that method. Argun et al. Herring, David K.Y.

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MARCH 23, 2021

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, in collaboration with KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, have produced a structural battery that performs ten times better than all previous versions. It contains carbon fiber that serves simultaneously as an electrode, conductor, and load-bearing material. Image: Marcus Folino.

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JANUARY 21, 2013

John Goodenough at the University of Texas at Austin and colleague Kyu-Sung Park have written a perspective paper on Li-ion batteries (LIBs), published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. More recently, at the University of Texas, Austin, Dr. Goodenough patented a new class of iron phosphate materials. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The selected OPEN 2018 projects are in 21 states and fall into 9 technical categories, including transportation, electricity generation and delivery, and energy efficiency. . Transportation. Of the 40 projects, 15 are transportation-related, with total funding of $41.5 Georgia Tech Research Corporation. Ionic Materials, Inc.

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JULY 6, 2021

Researchers at the University of Bath have developed a graphene oxide (GO)/polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) aerogel (GPA) weighing just 2.1 We managed to produce such an extremely low density by using a liquid combination of graphene oxide and a polymer, which are formed with whipped air bubbles and freeze-casted.

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JANUARY 30, 2011

The final product is either a fine micro-fibrous polymer mat that resembles white tissue paper, or polymer micro-beads with a diameter of ~ 0.5 - 5µm, with the hydride material entrained in ~50 - 200nm pores within the polymer. For most hydrogen storage materials this releases megajoules of energy.

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Hydrogen Commercial Transportation Polymer 262

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AUGUST 9, 2019

Henkel is partnering in a research and development project called SYMPA, sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Federal Ministry Republic of Austria Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT).

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APRIL 26, 2018

Researchers at Zhejiang University of Technology in China have fabricated magnesium borate (of the form Mg 2 B 2 O 5 ) nanowire-enabled poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)-based solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) for solid-state lithium-ion batteries (SSLIBs). Polymer electrolytes such as PEO may show low conductivity near 10 ?6

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Li-ion Polymer Lithium Ion Cheap 207

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JANUARY 22, 2018

However, the low conductivity of most carbon-based structures and poor interfacial engineering of heterostructures still greatly impede the transport of electrons and electrolyte ions during the electrochemical processes, limiting their overall oxygen reduction performance. Tang et al. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 26, 2021

—John Holladay, PNNL scientist and co-director of the joint Bioproducts Institute, a collaboration between PNNL and Washington State University. It addresses the need to convert biocrude, a mixture of carbon-based polymers, into biofuels. campus of Washington State University Tri-Cities.

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MARCH 23, 2012

Grzegorz Milczarek from Poznan University of Technology (Poland), and Olle Inganäs from Linköping University (Sweden), have combined lignin derivatives, which are electronic insulators, with polypyrole, a conductive polymer, into an interpenetrating composite suitable for use as a battery cathode. 1 (inner to outer).

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Polymer Battery Batteries Renewable 268

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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. In addition to being nonflammable, PFPE exhibits very interesting properties such as its ion transport. Most polymers don’t mix with salts, but this one did—and it was nonflammable. Dominica H.

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Li-ion Dominica Lithium Ion Batteries 261

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APRIL 19, 2018

Researchers at Jilin University in China have developed a new class of self-assembled crystalline porous organic salts (CPOSs) featuring high proton conductivity for applications such as proton-exchange membranes for fuel cells. In the salts, the transport mechanism is different. Crystal structure of four different CPOSs. Xing et al.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

University of Michigan. The Ohio State University. Arizona State University. Mississippi State University. Johns Hopkins University. The Ohio State University. Michigan State University, Composite Vehicle Research Center. The Pennsylvania State University. Lead organization. Description.

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AUGUST 21, 2014

million in 14 cooperative agreements with small businesses and institutions of higher education to develop and to deploy efficient and environmentally friendly highway transportation technologies that will help reduce petroleum use in the United States. University of Colorado Boulder. University of Wisconsin - Madison.

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JULY 2, 2017

The University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) received a $1 million U.S. The center is home to the largest carbon fiber spinline at any university in North America. Department of Energy (DOE) grant to continue their research in developing low-cost, high-strength carbon fiber.

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JULY 7, 2016

These projects, selected through collaborative research consortia, will leverage industry, university and laboratory expertise to accelerate advanced hydrogen storage technologies and fuel cell performance and durability. University of Missouri, St. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 13, 2020

Researchers at Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan have developed an active sulfur material and carbon nanofiber (S-CNF) composite material for all-solid-state Li-sulfur batteries using a low-cost and straightforward liquid phase process. Copyright Toyohashi University Of Technology.

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