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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Researchers have used a novel near-infrared light imaging technique to capture the first cross-sectional images of carbon dioxide in the exhaust plume of a commercial jet engine. Image Credit: Gordon Humphries, University of Strathclyde. Image Credit: Abhishek Upadhyay, University of Strathclyde. m in diameter. Beltran, V.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

reflective, developed by engineers at Purdue University, has earned a Guinness World Records title for the whitest paint. reflectivity compares to a reflectivity of 80–90% for other white paints designed to reflect sunlight that are currently available. Credit: Purdue University/Joseph Peoples. 427 FA9550-17-1-0368).

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APRIL 21, 2021

Most silicon battery designs currently available or under development require expensive materials and complex processes that can significantly increase costs. Production-scale prototype cells will be available in Q4 this year for customer evaluations and testing.

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JUNE 15, 2023

OXCCU, a company spun-out from the University of Oxford in 2021 that is focused on converting carbon dioxide and hydrogen into industrial and consumer products ( earlier post ), completed an £18-million (US$22.8 million) Series A financing round. Trafigura, TechEnergy Ventures and Doral Energy-Tech Ventures also participated in the financing.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

in close collaboration with GTI and The University of Texas at Austin, has launched a US Department of Energy project, Demonstration and Framework for H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond. The team will assess available resources, prospective hydrogen users, and delivery infrastructure, such as existing pipelines that supply hydrogen to refineries.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Rice University scientists have developed a detection system capable of alerting for Li dendrite formation in a two?electrode Credit: Tour Group/Rice University). Credit: Tour Group/Rice University). electrode battery with a Li metal anode with no additional electrodes required. 4 mg cm –2.

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

A team from the University of Calgary and Rice University has used flash joule heating (FJH) ( earlier post ) to convert low-value asphaltenes—a by-product of crude oil refining—into a high-value carbon allotrope, asphaltene-derived flash graphene (AFG). Flash graphene from asphaltenes. (A)

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

The hydrogen combustion engine, on the other hand, offers a more readily available and robust solution thanks to the well-known basic technology and could thus serve as a bridging technology. Cooperation with universities is also planned. Practical trials in cooperation with selected customers are planned for 2023/24.

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JUNE 28, 2021

The EU-funded research project HyFlexFuel recently successfully produced biocrudes via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) from a variety of biomasses, including sewage sludge, food waste, manure, wheat straw, corn stover, pine sawdust, miscanthus and microalgae in a pilot-scale continuous HTL plant at Aarhus University (Denmark).

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JULY 31, 2019

James Cook University (JCU) scientists in Australia are using 3D printing to create fuels for rockets, and using tailor-made rocket motors they’ve built to test the fuels. We wanted to explore the viability of using commercially available 3D printing materials in the manufacture of hybrid rocket fuel grains.

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APRIL 25, 2021

Researchers from the University of Houston, with colleagues at the University of São Paolo in Brazil, have demonstrated how copper-resistant bacterium from a copper mine in Brazil convert CuSO 4 (copper sulfate) ions into zero-valent Cu (metallic copper). An open-access paper on their research is published in Science Advances.

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MAY 7, 2019

Anellotech ’s Bio-TCat technology has achieved commercially-targeted yields in its TCat-8 pilot unit in Silsbee, Texas during six months of continuous process operations. Anellotech is now planning the construction of its first commercial plant and is engaging in partnership and funding discussions with existing and new strategic partners.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

However, the fundamental question regarding how to implement the concept of LCE in large-dimension catalysts (that is, nanomaterials and commercially available materials) is still unset-tled. If this is successful, we can deliver a device for commercialization in five years. —Chang et al.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The US National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is collaborating with the University of Kentucky and their subcontractor Virginia Tech to demonstrate a novel process for the extraction of REEs from coal using plasma. Ultimately, these efforts will ready REE separations technology for commercial deployment.

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AUGUST 21, 2021

Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU), founded by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in cooperation with the University of Ulm, have developed a new lithium-metal battery that offers extremely high energy density of 560 Wh/kg—based on the total weight of the active materials—with remarkably good stability.

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JUNE 21, 2020

Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Doubling the voltage would allow for a smaller, lighter, more efficient fuel cell design, which translates to significant gravimetric and volumetric advantages when assembling multiple cells into a stack for commercial use. —Vijay Ramani, the Roma B.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Julia Lyubina, responsible for the development and commercialization of Siridion Black. They are working on making lithium-ion batteries even more powerful in a joint project with the University of Duisburg-Essen that is being funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy until 2023.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Danish Minister for Transport Trine Bramsen, Aalborg municipal government representatives, and European media were invited to witness the first test runs of Geely methanol vehicles on Danish roads and visit the e-methanol production facility at Aalborg University. Both have their own advantages and together complement each other, Geely says.

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Researchers at the University of California, Davis have developed a process for the production of branched C 7 –C 10 hydrocarbons in the gasoline volatility range from biomass-derived levulinic acid with good yield, operating under relatively mild conditions, with short reaction times. Click to enlarge. barrels of oil (117.6 gallons US).

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JULY 11, 2021

An international group of experts led by WMG, University of Warwick working together as a part of an ISO technical committee, has published the first international (ISO) safety standard for Level 4 automated driving systems, taking them a step further towards being more widely available.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

Chemical engineers at UNSW Sydney and University of Sydney have developed a hybrid plasma electrocatalytic process for the production of sustainable (“green”) ammonia. Non-thermal plasma activates water and air, producing NO x dissolved in solution as an intermediary for ammonium’s electrochemical synthesis. kWh/mol NH 3.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

Following an eight-minute-long fueling, the semi truck, having 900 kWh of total stored net electric energy, was tested for several hours on the campus of Stony Brook University. After integrating its technology into a 5 kW drone in July 2021 and 100kW John Deere tractor in May 2022, Amogy has scaled its ammonia-to-power technology to 300 kW.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Recently, TdVib LLC , a company based out of Boone, Iowa, signed a license agreement for the technology with Iowa State University Research Foundation, which handles patenting and technology transfer activities for Ames Laboratory. Licensing to TdVib LLC is the newest step in its progress from lab to commercialization.

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APRIL 29, 2021

This is the first commercial license for MENNDL as well as the first AI technology to be commercially licensed from ORNL. MENNDL leverages compute power to explore all the different design parameters that are available to you, fully automated, and then comes back and says, ‘Here's a list of all the network designs that I tried.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

The new chargers utilize interoperable, universal charging technology and are equipped to power a diverse range of 100% battery-electric vehicles, including battery-electric transit buses, school buses, delivery vans, coach buses, and other commercial vehicles.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

million in funding for three projects developing fuel cell and battery-electric drives for commercial vehicles. The HyLightCOM project by Opel Automobile GmbH is developing a light commercial vehicle with a fuel cell drive and testing five prototypes as a basis for large-scale production from 2025. Scale-e-Drive (Funding: around €1.8

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

Power also remains more available across the vehicle speed, leading to higher top speeds and lower energy consumption. CVT4EV makes a single drivetrain suitable for a wide variety of applications, be it a mid-size car, sports car or light commercial vehicle. CVT4EV electric drivetrain.

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MARCH 17, 2021

The University of Michigan and Ford Motor Company are opening a new advanced robotics facility. The fourth floor houses Ford’s first robotics and mobility research lab on a university campus, as well as 100 Ford researchers—including autonomous vehicle researchers—and engineers.

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APRIL 10, 2020

New-type noble metal aerogels were developed for outstanding pH-universal electrocatalysis toward hydrogen evolution reaction and oxygen reduction reaction. Universal HER and ORR Electrocatalysis.” These findings largely span the application territory of NMAs for fuel cells, green hydrogen production and many more. Credit: Wiley-VCH.

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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. campus of Washington State University Tri-Cities. For example, they are assessing the resources available within a 50-mile radius of Detroit, Mich. —John Holladay.

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OCTOBER 27, 2014

The prototype currently reaches the same voltage as a commercially available AA battery. million to four separate projects (led by Stanford University, UC San Diego, Arizona State University, and Penn State) to develop multifunctional structural batteries for vehicles as part of its RANGE program for transformative EV storage.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The University of Michigan. The University of Michigan proposes the RAFT concept as a solution for hydrokinetic energy harvesting. The control system will be able to prioritize maintaining the lowest cost of energy, increasing component life and maximum available energy. University of Washington. University of Virginia.

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JUNE 8, 2021

It is an 11-month study that is being led by Coventry City Council with WPD and other partners including, Cenex; Coventry University; Hubject; Midlands Connect; National Express; Transport for West Midlands; and Electreon. The design encompasses a three-phase system that features rotating magnetic fields between layers of coils.

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

The Clean Carbon Conductors team, with members from Rice University and DexMat Co, is designing enhanced-conductivity CNTs by improving fiber quality, alignment, packing density, and by electrochemically doping the CNTs. Each winning team has earned a $25,000 cash prize and a stipend for third-party conductivity testing in Stage 2.

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MAY 16, 2021

A team of scientists from six institutions, including Akihiro Moriyoshi, Emeritus Professor Hokkaido University, have found that the presence of Trace Quantities of Organic Matter (TQOM) in modern concrete structures and asphalt pavements drive the deterioration of these structures. CT scans showing cracks in damaged concrete.

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MAY 1, 2023

Stanford researchers, with a colleague from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, have developed a simple and environmentally sound way to make ammonia with tiny droplets of water and nitrogen from the air. An open-access paper on their work is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). —Song et al.

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JUNE 30, 2023

This marks an important milestone on Altris’ commercialization journey, as the capacity of cathode materials is crucial to increase the energy density and deployment of sodium-ion batteries. This makes the battery cell commercially viable for applications such as grid energy storage connected to renewable energy production.

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