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JUNE 17, 2013

The new MIT proces converts furfural into GVL via a series of cascading (domino-like) reactions catalyzed by zeolites with Lewis and Brønsted acid sites. The new MIT production method, described in the June 11 issue of the journal Angewandte Chemie , eliminates both of those obstacles. Credit: Bui et al. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

New research by MIT scientists suggests that carbon nanotubes could be used to create elastic energy storage systems with energy densities that could be three orders of magnitude higher than those of conventional steel springs, and comparable to Li-ion batteries with potentially more durability and reliability. Hill et al. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 5, 2014

Researchers at MIT have devised a simple, soluble metal oxide system to capture and transform CO 2 into useful organic compounds. Scientists have long sought ways to convert carbon dioxide to organic compounds. —Christine Thomas, associate professor of chemistry at Brandeis University, who was not involved in the research.

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MAY 15, 2021

NREL working with industrial partners (Genomatica and DeNora) will develop a biorefining concept that uses electrochemically generated formate as a universal energy carrier to facilitate a carbon optimized sugar assimilation fermentation to synthesize fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) without release of CO 2. University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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AUGUST 29, 2015

The University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) is working with FuelCell Energy, Inc., The project is directed at developing an intermediate-temperature fuel cell that would directly convert methane to methanol and other liquid fuels using advanced metal catalysts. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Scientists from a team spanning Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a scalable, integrated bioelectrochemical system that uses bacteria to convert solar energy into a liquid fuel.

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JANUARY 26, 2010

The ability to convert electrical energy into hydrogen reducing equivalents is fundamental to an enormous number of processes. With technology based on patents developed right here at MIT by Daniel Nocera, Sun Catalytix now has the support it needs to bring breakthrough energy storage technologies to market more quickly.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The projects selected are located in 25 states, with 50% of projects led by universities, 23% by small businesses, 12% by large businesses, 13% by national labs, and 2% by non-profits. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Development of a Dedicated, High-Value Biofuels Crop The University of Massachusetts, Amherst will develop an.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Researchers at the University of Houston’s physics department and the Texas Center for Superconductivity, MIT and Boston College have found that indium-doped tin telluride (SnTe) shows high thermoelectric performance, with a peak figure of merit (ZT) of ?1.1 atom % In-doped SnTe at about 873 K (600 ° C).

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APRIL 30, 2010

Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. Engineering E.

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AUGUST 11, 2014

Thermoelectric materials convert temperature differences into electric voltage; a TEG in a vehicle is designed to convert waste heat to power. GMZ Energy, a provider of advanced nano-structured thermoelectric generation technology, was co-founded by MITs Professor Gang Chen and collaborator Zhifeng Ren of the University of Houston.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

One program, Reducing Emissions using Methanotrophic Organisms for Transportation Energy (REMOTE, earlier post ), provides $34 million to 15 projects to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation. Northwestern University. Pennsylvania State University.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The projects are based in 24 states, with approximately 47% of the projects led by universities; 29% by small businesses; 15% by large businesses; 7.5% Methane Converter to Electricity and Fuel. Bio2Electric will develop a small-scale reactor that converts natural. convert natural gas into transportable liquids in one step.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

A team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University has developed a high-rate, high-capacity and long-lived anode for Li-ion batteries comprising a yolk-shell nanocomposite of aluminum core (30 nm in diameter) and TiO 2 shell (~3 nm in thickness), with a tunable interspace (Al@TiO 2 , or ATO). Earlier post.). —Li et al.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Bundesministerin Anja Karliczek hat heute in Berlin den Prototypen eines Autos vorgestellt, das mit dem synthetischen Kraftstoff Methanol angetrieben werden kann. The Obrist DE GmbH worked with the Technical University of Munich, the Technical University of Dresden, and the RWTH Aachen to create the vehicle. ” Wolf said.

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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. Their analysis is published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University. The Ohio State University.

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DECEMBER 19, 2015

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and ExxonMobil announced a two-year agreement to research the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass into transportation fuels. This agreement continues ExxonMobil's commitment to partner with top universities and scientists to research and discover next-generation energy solutions.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Right now, such tattoos dont exist, but the key technology is being worked on in labs around the world, including my lab at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The Rise of Epidermal Electronics The idea of a peel-and-stick sensor comes from the groundbreaking work of John Rogers and his team at Northwestern University.

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MAY 13, 2012

OsComp Systems, a startup formed by MIT alumni, has developed , with support from the US Department of Energy (DOE), a hybrid rotary compressor design that decreases the energy required to compress and transport natural gas, lowers operating costs, improves efficiencies and reduces the environmental footprint of well site operations.

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JULY 17, 2017

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and ExxonMobil announced a two-year renewal of an agreement to research the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass into transportation fuels. Over the past two years, research has focused on a multistep approach for converting cellulosic biomass to transportation fuels.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

Two separate research collaborations have recently reported advances in the efficiency of thermoelectric materials in converting heat to electricity. A collaboration including researchers from Boston College, MIT, the University of Virginia and Clemson University have achieved a peak ZT (thermoelectric figure of merit) of 0.8

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MAY 10, 2016

With up to $3 million in available funding, DOE has selected two projects: one from Ohio State University and one from Massachusetts Institute of Technology that will receive between $1 million to $2 million. The DOE selections are: The Ohio State University (OSU). Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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AUGUST 10, 2011

The Pennsylvania State University. Thermoelectric and enabling engine technology : Three projects awarded to improve the efficiency of thermoelectric devices to convert engine waste heat to electricity. The Regents of the University of California, Riverside. valve train vs. bearings). Grantee Description. Amprius, Inc.

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JULY 26, 2012

The project will focus on furthering the development of Ohio State University’s coal direct chemical looping process (CDCL). The CDCL process consists of a unique moving bed reactor where pulverized coal is fully converted using iron-based oxygen carriers. University of Kentucky Research Foundation. Washington University.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

ExxonMobil and Princeton University announced the selection of five research projects associated with their partnership focused on energy technologies. These efforts are in addition to the more than 80 universities that ExxonMobil partners with on research programs to explore new energy solutions.

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JUNE 3, 2016

The research was led by Daniel Nocera, the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard University, and Pamela Silver, the Elliott T. The system can now convert solar energy to biomass with 10% efficiency, Nocera said, far above the one percent seen in the fastest growing plants. and Onie H. —Daniel Nocera. Silver, Daniel G.

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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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MARCH 23, 2019

HITEMMP projects include: Michigan State University. Michigan State University’s HIPPED technology is a highly scalable heat exchanger suited for high-efficiency power generation systems that use supercritical CO 2 as a working fluid and operate at high temperature and high pressure. Missouri University of Science and Technology.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

A separate paper published online in Science Express by researchers from the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole and MIT concludes that indirect land use change associated with global biofuels programs will be responsible for substantially more carbon loss (up to twice as much) than direct land use. issue of the journal Science.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. The University of Illinois will conduct research to develop a composite plastic heat exchanger for a low temperature gas streams common in industry. Colorado State University. Iowa State University. Michigan State University. Temple University. 795,834.

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MAY 24, 2022

A team at Columbia University, in New York City, has developed a wireless-communication technique for wearable medical devices that sends signals securely through body tissue. The same is true in reverse, when solar panels lose some of the energy in photons as heat instead of it all being converted into electrons.

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JULY 10, 2024

In 1919 she became the first woman to earn a master’s degree in electrical engineering from MIT. She enrolled at MIT in 1918 to further her career, according to her Engineering and Technology History Wiki biography. She also worked on hydroelectric power plant designs, according to a 2022 profile in Hydro Review.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Sanctuary ] Ayato Kanada, an assistant professor at Kyushu University in Japan, wrote in to share "the world's simplest omnidirectional mobile robot." The stator converts its thrust force and torque into longitudinal and meridian motions of the torus wheel, respectively, making the torus work as an omnidirectional wheel on a plane.

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MAY 12, 2023

A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , he also was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the MIT board of trustees. He received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1949 from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore, and earned a Ph.D. He joined the University of Illinois in 1977 as a professor.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Industrial-scale processes require fungal enzymes to convert biomass into fermentable sugars. O'Malley’s team also included scientists from PNNL, DOE JGI, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Harper Adams University. In other words, the fungi can update their enzyme arsenal on the fly. —Michelle O’Malley.

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MAY 28, 2015

Chemists at the University of Waterloo have identified the key reaction that takes place in sodium-air batteries. The dimensions of the initially formed NaO 2 are critical; theoretical calculations from a group at MIT has separately shown that NaO 2 is energetically preferred over sodium peroxide, Na 2 O 2 at the nanoscale.

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