2014 Carbon Convert Universal 
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 8, 2014
-alumina supports along with a small amount of lanthanum oxide can efficiently turn the carbon monoxide in automotive exhaust into carbon dioxide at temperatures as low as 40 ?Celsius, At low temperatures, carbon monoxide builds up on the catalyst, decreasing its efficiency. —Prof. alumina supports.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 10, 2018
Startup Mattershift says it has achieved a breakthrough in making carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes at large scale. The paper is a characterization study of commercial prototype carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes consisting of sub–1.27-nm-diameter nm-diameter CNTs traversing a large-area nonporous polysulfone film.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 3, 2014
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have disclosed a new method to convert lignin, an important component of biomass waste, into simple chemicals. Lignin, which accounts for nearly 30% of the organic carbon in the biosphere, is a complex material containing chains of six-carbon rings. —Shannon Stahl.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 3, 2014
A new material developed at Rice University based on molybdenum disulfide (Mo S 2) exposes as much of the edge as possible, making it efficient as both a catalyst for hydrogen production and for energy storage. This converted the material to molybdenum disulfide without damage to its nano-porous sponge-like structure, they reported.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. We need both a policy like a carbon tax and to put more R&D money into renewables.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 24, 2014
Twenty-three of the projects receiving funding are headed by universities, eight are led by the Energy Department’s National Laboratories and one project is run by a non-profit organization. FY 2014 EFRC Awards. University of California, Berkeley. University of California, Riverside. Northwestern University.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 9, 2015
Thermionic energy converters are heat engines that convert heat directly to electricity at very high temperatures. A basic thermionic converter consists of two electrodes separated by a vacuum or a vapor. In 1915, Schlichter published an investigation into the use of thermionic emission for converting heat into electricity.
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