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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

One of the benefits of using print electronics is being able to mass-produce at a low cost, says Gregory Whiting at the University of Colorado, Boulder, one of the principal investigators of the team working on the sensors. With the new, cheap sensors, farmers will be able to collect data on their farms without worrying about the variability.

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DECEMBER 10, 2017

Scientists from the University of Surrey and their colleagues have produced non-metal electro-catalysts for fuel cells that could pave the way for production of low-cost, environmentally friendly energy generation.

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AUGUST 13, 2023

A joint research team from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and collaborators have developed a stable artificial photocatalytic system that is more efficient than natural photosynthesis. Photo credit: (left) Professor Ye Ruquan’s research group / City University of Hong Kong and (right) Biophysical Journal, 99:67-75, 2010.

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JULY 5, 2012

At the ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing this month in Portugal, researchers from MIT, Georgetown University and the National University of Singapore (NUS) will present a new algorithm that would allow Wi-Fi-connected cars to share their Internet connections. —Prof. John Heidemann, Univ.

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AUGUST 15, 2015

A team at the University of Washington (Seattle) led by Dr. Venkat Subramanian has developed an approach that helps solve battery models without knowing the exact initial conditions and without having to use a Newton Raphson iteration (a method for finding successively better approximations of a real-valued function) or a nonlinear solver.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

And a new study just released by the University of California--Davis suggests that we are "tantalizingly close to the beginning of a hydrogen.'

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

A University of Washington team is trying to make poplar an economically viable biofuel feedstock by testing the production of younger poplar trees that could be harvested more frequently—after only two or three years—instead of the usual 10- to 20-year cycle. Chang Dou/University of Washington. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

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. Source: Mascal et al. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have coated SnO 2 nanowires with vanadium pentoxide (V 2 O 5 ) using a simple gas-phase-based method. An electrode made from the SnO 2 /V 2 O 5 core/shell-nanowires delivers a high power density of about 60 kW kg -1 while the energy density remains 282 Wh kg -1.

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MAY 2, 2011

Damsgaard, Thomas Pedersen and Ole Hansen, Technical University of Denmark. Progress has so far been limited in part by a lack of cheap catalysts that can speed up the generation of hydrogen and oxygen. Image courtesy of Christian D. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

Unlike platinum, which is rare, our new material is made up of the abundant and cheap elements, iron and magnesium. The key is that the gelatin material is not only cheap, but it’s extremely easy to make. Zoe Schnepp, Birmingham Fellow from the University of Birmingham’s School of Chemistry, Resources. Hollamby, Brian R.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

is pursuing an electrical engineering degree at the University of Scranton , in Pennsylvania. The junior is president of the university’s W3USR amateur radio club. If we can make them cheap enough, we could get ham radio operators to set them up and increase data points.” “I Piccini, from Monroe Township, N.J.,

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JUNE 23, 2009

Scientists at the University of Delaware are developing a new low-cost material for hydrogen storage—carbonized chicken feathers (CCFF)—that they say could meet the DOE requirements for hydrogen storage and are competitive with carbon nanotubes and metal hydrates at a tiny fraction of their cost. Wool, University of Delaware.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

Researchers from Zhejiang University in China have developed a photo-chemo-enzymatic multi-step combination pathway for the highly efficient and environmentally friendly preparation of biogasoline from cheap and sustainable triolein using solar energy and atmospheric O 2 under mild conditions.

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JULY 25, 2016

An international team from MIT, Argonne National Laboratory and Peking University has demonstrated a lab-scale proof-of-concept of a new type of cathode for Li-air batteries that could overcome the current drawbacks to the technology, including a high potential gap (>1.2 V)

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MAY 9, 2018

Researchers at the University of Exeter (UK) have developed a novel p-type LaFeO 3 photoelectrode using an inexpensive and scalable spray pyrolysis method. The researchers believe this new type of photoelectrode is not only cheap to produce, but can also be recreated on a larger scale for mass and worldwide use.

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JULY 4, 2024

I uploaded the data to a server maintained by Cornell University that then uses AI to quickly identify the species. The great thing about Raven Lite is that you can review hours of recordings just by scanning through spectrograms visually. Checking out a 1-hour-long sound file takes just a few minutes.

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MARCH 24, 2020

Researchers at Aalto University (Finland), with colleagues at the University of Vienna (Austria), CNRS (France) and Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry (Russia), have developed a highly graphitized graphene nanoflake (GF)–carbon nanotube (CNT) hybrid catalyst doped simultaneously with single atoms of N, Co, and Mo (N-Co-Mo-GF/CNT).

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), with colleagues from Oregon State University, have developed PNNL a durable, inexpensive molybdenum-phosphide catalyst that efficiently converts wastewater and seawater into hydrogen. Like seawater, the MoP catalyst material is widely available, and therefore, cheap.

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MAY 19, 2014

A duo at the University of Stuttgart (Germany) is proposing an approach for the conversion of natural gas at gas-transport-constrained fields to easily transportable, high-octane liquid products. A paper describing their work is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.

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DECEMBER 31, 2012

A team at Rice University has engineered E. The new succinate process developed by Bennett, San and Chandresh Thakker promises to make even better use of a cheap and plentiful feedstock—primarily the indigestible parts of the soybean. coli bacteria to produce succinate (an ester of succinic acid) from soybean mash.

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OCTOBER 12, 2012

Chemists at Queen’s University Belfast (Ireland) have devised a novel environmentally friendly technique which allows the rapid production of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). The technology is to be commercialized by a spin-out from the University, MOF Technologies. Example of mechanochemical production of a MOF. Pichon et al.

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MAY 13, 2019

A cheaper, cleaner and more sustainable way of making hydrogen fuel from water using sunlight is closer with new research from the University of Bath’s Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies. The Bath team instead used commercially available graphite, which is very cheap and much more sustainable than indium.

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AUGUST 8, 2010

Researchers at the Isfahan University of Technology (Iran), have demonstrated the use of a dilute acid hydrolysis process to convert rice straw—a cheap, abundant and mainly unused ag waste—to 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and furfural. Both furans are components for production of different chemicals and fuels.

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JUNE 2, 2020

A paper on their work is published in the journal, ACS Energy Letters. Although O3-layered metal oxides are promising cathode materials for high-energy Na-ion batteries, they suffer from fast capacity fade. The WSU-PNNL team developed a high-performance O3-NaNi 0.68

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MAY 9, 2012

In contrast, the principal metals in the new compound developed by the Brookhaven team are both abundant and cheap: $20 per kilogram for nickel and $32 per kilogram for molybdenum. In this new catalyst, nickel takes the reactive place of platinum, but it lacks a comparable electron density. —Wei-Fu Chen.

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JULY 19, 2021

In an open-access study published in the journal Sustainable Cities and Society , Francesco Orsi, of the Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning Group, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands, suggests that widespread adoption of electric vehicles may have a negative impact on land use. —Orsi (2021). 2020.102680.

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JULY 31, 2014

Another benefit is that the really high performing cation-based pseudocapacitors use metals that are really expensive and not abundant on earth, while the materials used in this anion-based one uses cheap metals that are abundant in earth’s crust. —Tyler Mefford, graduate student and lead author.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Researchers at the University of Maryland have designed a flexible lithium-ion conducting ceramic textile featuring fast lithium-ion conductors, good electrochemical stability, and scalable processing approaches to device integration for solid-state lithium metal batteries. Gong et al. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have received about $2.5 Bard and Mullins are affiliated with the Center for Electrochemistry at the university. However, efficient, cheap and abundant materials have yet to be discovered to make solar water splitting a viable process. Charles Mullins.

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APRIL 11, 2014

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a nanocrystalline copper material that produces multi-carbon oxygenates (ethanol, acetate and n-propanol) with up to 57% Faraday efficiency at modest potentials (–0.25?volts We have a solution to this problem that’s made of copper, which is cheap and abundant. volts to –0.5?volts

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In contrast, the LSP method not only saves energy but uses aluminum, a cheap and abundant metal. She and her colleagues, including scientists from the University of Maryland in College Park and DENSsolutions, in Delft, the Netherlands, reported their findings in Nature Materials.

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MARCH 30, 2014

Engineers at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre ( AMRC ) at the University of Sheffield have successfully printed a 1.5m-wide The engineers said the polymer craft could form the basis of cheap and potentially disposable UAVs that could be built and deployed in remote situations potentially within as little as 24 hours.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

A team from Georgia Tech, with colleagues at the university of Kansas, has designed a high-performance solid-oxide fuel cell that operates directly on nearly dry (only ~3.5 Our cell could make for a straightforward, robust overall system that uses cheap stainless steel to make interconnectors.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Hongjie Dai and his research lab at Stanford University have developed a prototype that can generate hydrogen fuel from seawater. Developing cheap electrocatalysts and electrodes that can sustain seawater splitting without chloride corrosion could address the water scarcity issue. Image credit: Courtesy of H. —Hongjie Dai.

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MAY 26, 2019

Scientists from the Russian National University of Science and Technology MISIS have doped aluminum melt with nickel and lanthanum to create a material combining benefits of both composite materials and standard alloys: flexibility, strength, lightness. A paper on their research is published in Materials Letters.

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OCTOBER 31, 2013

Now, aluminum is increasingly important in electronics, particularly as a “green” component that’s cheap, widely available and environmentally benign. The research was made possible, in part, by collaboration between chemists at OSU and the University of Oregon, through the Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry.

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