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The technology is to be commercialized by a spin-out from the University, MOF Technologies. By simply grinding together two cheap precursors in a basic milling machine, the MOF material is produced in a matter of minutes, in a powder form, ready for applications without further treatment, and without generating solvent waste.
Professor Kondo-Francois Aguey-Zinsou and his team at UNSW’s School of Chemical Engineering have developed a system that provides cheap storage and transportation of hydrogen which they expect will provide a new alternative for energy storage within two years.
While the analysis and design of such systems can be complex, the result can be potentially cheap to manufacture. This technology allows for elimination of one of the moving parts (the displacer), replacing it with a tuned cavity and inertance tubes.
The material could allow hydrogen to be stored in a cheap and practical way for transport applications, the company says. Credit: ACS, Kurban et al. Click to enlarge.
University of Adelaide’s Professor Shizhang Qiao, co-corresponding author, said that the researchers used a non-precious and cheap catalyst in a commercial electrolyzer. A flow-type natural seawater electrolyser with Lewis acid-modified electrodes (Cr 2 O 3 –CoO x ) exhibits the industrially required current density of 1.0 A cm
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IPG’s project will demonstrate the role of Flameless Ceramic Turbine technology in bringing EV charging to high-use and remote locations through clean, cheap, grid-independent power generation. But, in many high-use areas and remote locations, upgrading grid connections to meet future charging demand is not practical or commercially viable.
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Market analyst firm Lux Research has maintained a skeptical stance about the commercial prospects of graphene even in the light of the material’s compelling properties. A research and patent boom along with impressive technical performance is far from a guarantee of commercial success. Lack of concrete commercial performance metrics.
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The team used a commercial thermal graphite sheet and a mesoporous carbon scaffold to encapsulate metal-halide perovskites (CsPbBr 3 ) as an inexpensive and efficient waterproofing strategy. We use a commercial thermal graphite sheet and a mesoporous carbon scaffold to encapsulate CsPbBr 3 as an inexpensive and efficient protection strategy.
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The finding, detailed in an open access paper in Nature’s Scientific Reports , is a step toward eliminating what industry regards as the largest obstacle to large-scale commercialization of fuel cell technology—the high cost and insufficient supply of platinum catalysts. —Jeon et al.
Demand for hydrogen closely tracks the deployment of the vehicles, which is tied to automakers’ commercialization and roll-out plans. At the same time, the increasing availability of distributed electrolysis, low off-peak electricity prices, and cheap natural gas are improving the economics of the hydrogen market.
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Cyclonatix, Inc is developing an industrial-sized motor/controller to operate with either DC or AC power sources, for applications in electric vehicles, solar-powered pumps, HVAC&R, gas compressors, and other commercial and industrial machines which require high efficiency, variable speed/torque, and low cost.
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Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and professor of chemistry at MIT, is the senior author of the paper, which was co-authored by his former student Steven Reece PhD ’07 (who now works at Sun Catalytix, a company started by Nocera to commercialize his solar-energy inventions), along with five other researchers from Sun Catalytix and MIT.
But whereas commercial desalination plants are designed to meet large-scale demand, there is also a need for portable systems that can be carried into remote regions or set up as stand-ins for municipal water works in the wake of a disaster. “We We are pushing ourselves to scale-up to 10 liters per hour for practical applications.”
The OHM (oleophobic hydrophobic magnetic) nanocomposite slurry can be used to coat any cheap, commercially available sponge. The team plans to develop and commercialize OHM technology for environmental clean-up. The researchers applied a thin coating of the slurry to the sponge, squeezed out the excess, and let it dry.
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