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The selected projects are: The University of California, San Diego, Development of Efficient and Scalable Direct Recycling Technology for Lithium-Ion Batteries. The CEC received four project applications and is proposing two of them for funding; the total amount recommended is $2,686,115. e00152 (open access).

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

million to a team led by the University of California San Diego for battery research in advanced vehicle technologies. Shirley Meng, a professor of nanoengineering and the director of the Sustainable Power and Energy Center at UC San Diego, is the lead investigator on the project. Judith Alvarado, Marshall A.

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APRIL 18, 2019

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have improved their recycling process that regenerates degraded cathodes from spent lithium-ion batteries. Zheng Chen, a professor of nanoengineering who is affiliated with the Sustainable Power and Energy Center at UC San Diego, led the project. 2019) “Ambient?Pressure

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OCTOBER 29, 2023

Reminiscent of the TV show “ Shark Tank ,” on which business leaders often advise entrepreneurs, the students presented their projects to IEEE Pre-University Education Coordinating Committee volunteers, who provided feedback and guidance. They also toured the San Diego headquarters of Qualcomm , a wireless-technology company.

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JULY 24, 2020

Researchers from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Texas at Austin, with colleagues at the US Army Research Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have developed a thick cobalt-free high voltage spinel (LiNi 0.5 O 4 (LNMO)) cathode material with high areal capacity.

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APRIL 11, 2023

With funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Environmental Microbes as a BioEngineering Resource ( EMBER ) program ( earlier post ), San Diego State University researchers are developing advanced extraction methods with the aim of boosting the domestic supply of REEs.

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MAY 29, 2022

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have found that autonomous vehicles can be tricked into an abrupt halt or other undesired driving behavior by the placement of an ordinary object on the side of the road. The team recently. Ziwen Wan et al. Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium 2022.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

CalTestBed connects clean energy entrepreneurs with the immense resources within the UC system and at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. —Sandra Brown, UC San Diego’s vice chancellor for research. The initiative will provide $8.8 million in vouchers ranging from $10,000 to $300,000.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

Shirley Meng, a nanoengineering professor at UC San Diego. Schuller at UC San Diego, which is supported in part by the Office of Basic Energy Science, US Department of Energy. The cells still fail because a lot of inactive lithium is forming in these batteries. —Professor Meng.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

Engineers at the University of California San Diego and the University of California Los Angeles have developed an energy-efficient approach to regenerate Li-ion battery cathode materials (using LiCoO 2 as a model material) by hydrothermal treatment of cycled electrode particles followed by short annealing.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The Center will consist of one virtual hub and two physical locations—one in San Diego, which will be managed by the California Center for Sustainable Energy, and one in Los Angeles, which will be managed by the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator. The California Energy Commission contract is scheduled to begin in June 2014.

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JULY 20, 2018

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have shed new light on the atomic-level mechanism of the sulfur embrittlement of nickel, a classic problem that has puzzled the scientific community for nearly a century. A faceted grain boundary in intergranularly-fractured sulfur-doped nickel. —Jian Luo.

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JULY 1, 2019

The research, published in the journal Joule , builds on innovations first reported in Science in 2017 by the same research group at the University of California San Diego and the university spinout South 8 Technologies. At minus 60 ?C, C, the team demonstrated lithium-metal anode cycling efficiency of 98.4%. Yang et al.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In his keynote speech at IBA 2019 in San Diego earlier this year, Arumugam Manthiram from the University of Texas noted that: The lithium-ion battery industry is now based on layered LiMO 2 cathodes with fractions of M = Mn, Co, and Ni as each of them has its own advantages and disadvantages. … Croy, Brandon R. 2019.227113.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

University of California San Diego nanoengineers, in collaboration with researchers at LG Energy Solution, have developed a battery that combines a solid-state electrolyte and an all-silicon anode. The initial rounds of tests show that the new battery is safe, long lasting, and energy dense. —Darren H. Tan, lead author.

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AUGUST 16, 2020

Fusion combines light elements in the form of plasma—the hot, charged state of matter composed of free electrons and atomic nuclei that makes up 99% of the visible universe—to generate massive amounts of energy. Resources. Support for this research comes from the DOE Office of Science. Nazikian, B.?A. Grierson, N.?C.

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APRIL 14, 2016

The California Energy Commission approved nearly $9 million in grants for the installation of DC fast chargers along major state freeways and highways to allow electric vehicle drivers to travel from San Diego to the Oregon border without worrying about running out of energy. The grants went to four companies—Chargepoint Inc.;

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AUGUST 30, 2019

The Los Angeles megacity—the third-largest metropolitan area in the world—occupies 4,850 square miles and houses more than 18.5 million people. Other cities Gurney has mapped to this degree are Indianapolis, Salt Lake City and Baltimore. Gurney hopes that will inspire people to become more engaged in policy development. Gurney, K.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric Co. Two of the awardees, Halotechnics and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), also received funds from the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E). First NorCal Retail H 2 Refueling Station Open.

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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. Princeton University.

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AUGUST 15, 2018

Funding was received from the Prop 1B program administered by the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District and the California Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Program (HVIP). The purchase of 46 new trucks represents about 50% of FXI’s California fleet.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The NNCI sites will provide researchers from academia, government, and companies large and small with access to university user facilities with leading-edge fabrication and characterization tools, instrumentation, and expertise within all disciplines of nanoscale science, engineering and technology. million each per year.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Of those selected, approximately 43% of OPEN 2018 projects will be led by universities, 35% by small businesses, and the remainder by large businesses, non-profit organizations or federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). Drop-In Replacement Materials from Abundant Resources to Double Energy in EV Batteries – $3,100,000.

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EPA AQI map of the San Diego County region,with a box added to. Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego have built a portable pollution sensors that transmit transmit their air quality readings to smart phones, allowing users to monitor air quality in real time. indicate UCSD campus.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

Scientists from Idaho National Laboratory and the University of California San Diego have shown that slow, low-energy charging causes lithium atoms to deposit on electrodes in a disorganized way that improves charging behavior. That initial nucleation may affect your battery performance, safety and reliability. Pawar, G.,

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

LimX Dynamics ] Robots built by engineers at the University of California, San Diego helped achieve a major breakthrough in understanding how insect flight evolved, described in the 4 October 2023 issue of the journal Nature. Pre-orders should open before the end of this year. ARL ] How self-healing is self-healing?

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JANUARY 10, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved funding to advance further the development of its pioneering 42 MW peak microgrid and expand electric vehicle charging at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). million award to increase its previously awarded funding of $1,394,298 for the university’s microgrid.

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—Michael Greenstone, Director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and co-author of the study. —Guojun He, research director at EPIC China and a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

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APRIL 27, 2009

SG Biofuels opened its Jatropha Genetic Resource Center (GRC) to further accelerate profitable, large-scale production of Jatropha as a low-cost, sustainable source of feedstock for biofuel. It can be effectively grown on abandoned lands that are unsuitable for other crops.

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MARCH 17, 2020

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have conducted a statistical analysis of pollution exposure and yields from 1980 to 2015 on a key sector making up about 38% of the state’s total agricultural output: perennial crops such as almonds, grapes, nectarines, peaches, strawberries and walnuts. Mueller, N.D.,

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MAY 27, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and General Motors named The Ohio State University this year’s winner of the EcoCAR 3 – Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition during an awards ceremony at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego. Virginia Tech and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University took second and third place respectively.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, will this month launch a pre-production phase of Gordon, the first high-performance supercomputer to use large amounts of flash-based SSD (solid state drive) memory. —SDSC Director Michael Norman.

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MAY 21, 2016

Researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), in collaboration with researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a workflow that integrates various “omics” data and genome-scale models to study the effects of biofuel production in a microbial host.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a pedestrian detection system that performs in near real-time (2-4 frames per second) and with higher accuracy (close to half the error) compared to existing systems.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

Under current policies, home energy storage systems would also often increase carbon emissions, according to a study by a team of researchers at the University of California San Diego published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Oytun Babacan, Ahmed Abdulla, Ryan Hanna, Jan Kleissl, and David G. 8b03834.

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JULY 9, 2014

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), with colleagues at UC San Diego, have developed a “mesoporous silicon sponge” material that, when applied as an anode in a lithium-ion battery, can deliver capacity of up to ~750?mAh?g The porous, sponge-like nanomaterial made of silicon. Source: PNNL. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 25, 2015

The scientists used a device developed at PPPL to inject grains of lithium measuring some 45 millionths of a meter in diameter into a plasma in the DIII-D National Fusion Facility—or tokamak—that General Atomics operates for DOE in San Diego. This work was supported by the DOE Office of Science. Osborne, G.L. Jackson, Z.

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