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MAY 13, 2023

Samsung is planning a $17 billion fab near Austin , Texas, and in September Intel broke ground on the first of two massive new facilities worth $20 billion in central Ohio. Intel arrives at Ohio State Ohio State University is using its chip-fabrication facility to train future engineers and technicians. Exciting as this is for the U.S.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

The five grantees include: University at Albany-SUNY will help incorporate short-term forecasts of emissions from electricity generation and traffic into modeling and air quality forecasts. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will develop new tools for linking air quality modeling and forecasting with forecasts of electricity demand.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

Yan Yao, Cullen Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston and co-corresponding author for the paper, said the groundbreaking results came from combining both an organic quinone cathode and a new tailored boron cluster-based electrolyte solution. Neither approach is practical.

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DECEMBER 22, 2014

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin have developed an optimization framework for hybrid-electric and plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs and PHEVs) including fuel consumption, motor efficiency, and battery capacity and lifetime. Shaltout et al. Click to enlarge. —Shaltout et al.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. Columbia University. Harvard University. Earlier post.)The

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JANUARY 21, 2021

Phinix,LLC; Rare Earth Element Separation Using Gas-Assisted Micro-Flow Extraction with Task-Specific Ionic Liquids Partners: NICHE Industrial Chemicals, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University DOE share:$500,000; Cost share $225,000; Total costs: $725,000. Topic 2, Area of Interest 2: Conversion to Rare Earth Metals (RE-metals).

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

The new funding, provided by the Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO), is part of $209 million awarded by VTO for advancing electric vehicles, batteries, and connected vehicles ( earlier post ).

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

ActaCell, a Li-ion battery spin-off from the University of Texas at Austin, was selected by the state of Texas, through the Austin Chamber of Commerce and the Central Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization (CenTex RCIC), to be awarded investment by the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF). ActaCell, Inc.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. in 1990, she joined the University of Texas at Austin as a professor of biomedical engineering.

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OCTOBER 2, 2011

As part of its role, SunEdison will be leading development of the advanced home solar photovoltaic (PV) charging systems for the Chevrolet Volt. is creating a consumer-focused smart-grid demonstration project in Austin, Texas, built around home applications, and consumer electronics. and University of Texas researchers.

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APRIL 20, 2020

Researchers from Texas A&M University, in collaboration with scientists in the Air Force Research Laboratory, have developed guidelines that allow 3D printing of martensitic steels into very sturdy, defect-free objects of nearly any shape. A paper on their work is published in the journal Acta Materialia. Seede et al. —Seede et al.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced $4 million in federal funding for national laboratories to collaborate with international partners on seven projects out of the 12 that were selected as a part of the Accelerating Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies (ACT) Initiative.

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JULY 24, 2012

s smart grid research project in Austin’s Mueller community, the Pecan Street Demonstration. Headquartered at The University of Texas at Austin, Pecan Street Inc. Pecan Street is part of Austin’s 700-acre sustainable Mueller community, where residents agreed to be part of a test bed for sustainable living.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

A multi-Hubbert analysis of coal production by Tadeusz Patzek at The University of Texas at Austin and Gregory Croft at the University of California, Berkeley concludes that the global peak of coal production from existing coalfields will occur close to the year 2011. Gt C (15 Gt CO 2 ) per year, according to the study.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

Engineers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) in Israel are developing a mathematical model to lead to a software solution to improve urban bike sharing systems management. There is no system for more scientifically managing the availability of bikes, creating dissatisfaction among users in popular parts of the city. — Dr. Raviv.

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AUGUST 31, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 14 new research projects that will be a part of an expanding portfolio of projects designed to increase the understanding of methane hydrates’ potential as a future energy supply. University of California at San Diego. University of Mississippi. University of New Hampshire.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Columbia University , New York, N.Y. Researchers will develop systems for tagging CO 2 with carbon-14 at atmospheric level (1 part per trillion) and measuring the carbon-14 CO 2 levels. Montana State University , Bozeman, Mont. Stanford University , Stanford, Calif. University of Miami Rosenstiel School , Miami, Fla.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

The selected projects include: Geothermix, LLC (Austin, TX) Geothermix will harvest waste heat from existing oil and gas wells in Texas to generate commercial quantities of geothermal electricity. University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK). This program is part of the?Wells ICE Thermal Harvesting (Houston, TX).

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JUNE 12, 2012

Example areas of interest included: design and automation tools; modular genetic parts and devices; standardized test platforms and chassis; tools for rapid physical construction; editing and manipulation of genetic designs; and new characterization and debugging tools for synthetic networks. 907,269 to Harvard University.

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JULY 12, 2012

Electromechanics - University of Texas at Austin. The University of Texas at Austin will develop an at-home. Unlike current four-piston compressors, UT Austin’s. parts, leading to a more reliable, lighter, and cost effective. Unlike current four-piston compressors, UT Austin’s. University.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

Cities and regions across Texas are partnering with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Transportation Research (CTR), and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to form the Texas Automated Vehicle (AV) Proving Ground Partnership.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

The University of Rhode Island (Kingston, Rhode Island) will develop and test standardized protocols for baseline studies and monitoring for the collection and comparison of scientifically valid and comparable data for specific offshore renewable energy issues. Evaluating Acoustic Technologies to Monitor Aquatic Organisms at Renewable Sites.

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MAY 25, 2011

A report from MIT and The University of Texas at Austin urges the US to accelerate efforts to pursue carbon capture and storage (CCS) in combination with enhanced oil recovery (EOR), a practice that could increase domestic oil production while significantly curbing emissions of carbon dioxide. -EOR System. common with CO 2.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

MW of new gross online geothermal capacity—is due in part to pioneering developments in geothermal technology, GEA said. Preliminary industry data reveals that year-end geothermal growth in 2012 was up 5% from the previous year, according to the Geothermal Energy Association ( GEA ). The US Department of Energy has invested roughly $37.5

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

11-kW Universal Ground Assembly. SAE J2954 establishes a universal Ground Assembly for WPT3, critical especially for public infrastructures. In those tests conducted at TDK RF Solutions near Austin, Texas, automakers and suppliers brought vehicles. —Jesse Schneider.

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JULY 29, 2016

Binghamton University (State University of New York). Stanford University. University of California, San Diego. University of Texas at Austin. University of Washington. Other Battery500 Consortium members include: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (leader). Idaho National Laboratory.

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JULY 11, 2018

Following a pilot program at University of California San Diego (UCSD), this second-life battery system has been unveiled at an operational EVgo fast charging station located in Union City, CA at 3960 Smith Street. —Austin Brown, Executive Director of the UC Davis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment and the Economy.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Image from Insuk Lee, Yonsei University. This research was supported in part by JBEI through the DOE Office of Science. Click to enlarge. An open-access paper on the work is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. —Pamela Ronald. Marcotte, and Pamela C.

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JUNE 7, 2023

The IEEE Fellow was a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington for more than 40 years. He founded the university’s Energy Systems Research Center in 1968 and served as its director until he retired in 2003. The attendees came from more than 750 universities and companies worldwide. Chen created UTA’s first Ph.D.

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MARCH 10, 2018

The difficulty and high cost of making CNT membranes has confined them to university laboratories and has been frequently cited as the limiting factor in their widespread use. Freeman, Professor of Chemical Engineering at UT Austin. He has a PhD in Environmental Engineering from Yale University. —Rob McGinnis.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

To advance research in nanoscale science, engineering and technology, the National Science Foundation (NSF) will provide a total of $81 million over five years to support 16 sites and a coordinating office as part of a new National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI). Stanford Site, Stanford University, PI: Kathryn Moler.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The design is part of a concept for developing safe all-solid-state batteries, dispensing with the liquid or polymer gel usually used as the electrolyte material between the battery’s two electrodes. The work was supported by the National Science Foundation.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

exascale ecosystem as part of President Obama’s National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI). Molecular Dynamics at the Exascale: Spanning the Accuracy, Length and Time Scales for Critical Problems in Materials Science, Arthur Voter (LANL) with SNL, University of Tennessee.

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AUGUST 17, 2016

The research teams include experts from universities and other national labs. A longtime user of NERSC supercomputers, Louie has a dual appointment as Senior Faculty Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab and Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Chelikowsky, University of Texas, Austin.

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JUNE 19, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has six recently launched applied battery research (ABR) projects as part of its Vehicle Technologies portfolio. Penn State/University of Texas at Austin. The projects end in 2015. Argonne National Laboratory. The team plans to integrate the HCMR cathode material with a Si-C anode.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Running beneath the 130 Highway at the Austin, Texas factory, the Boring Company first began construction on the underground tunnel in March , and Elon Musk has previously said that it will be used to transport Cybertrucks from the factory to the outbound lot, where hauling trucks will pick them up for shipping.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

In partnership with a consortium of local research institutions, this project deploy smart grid systems at partners’ university campus properties and technology transfer laboratories. This project will develop and implement an Energy Internet microgrid, located in a large mixed-use infill development site in Austin, Texas. 10,792,045.

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