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JULY 30, 2021

The Volvo Cars Tech Fund and Volta Energy Technologies join existing investors Anzu Partners and the University of Minnesota. As part of ARPA-E’s REACT program, the University of Minnesota (UMN) developed an early stage prototype of an iron-nitride permanent magnet material. million in new financing. Background. 2019.165962.

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JULY 13, 2022

The Audi Environmental Foundation, a subsidiary of AUDI AG founded in 2009, has joined forces with the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology to research new ways of mining high-tech elements. Moreover, mining activities have a drastic impact on the environment.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Researchers at Korea University have developed high-performance, textile-based electrodes for watersplitting (WSE); the non-noblemetal-based electrodes can generate a large amount of hydrogen with low overpotentials and high operational stability. doi: 10.1039/d2ee01510b.

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MAY 8, 2023

Yavuz of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Prof. Bo Liu from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and Prof. The research was carried out at Southern University of Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

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JUNE 10, 2022

Theoretical calculations demonstrate that the curved surfaces bind lithium with a stronger affinity than the planar surface with zero curvature, particularly the structure with a positive curvature, making it possible to accomplish the high capacity of the carbon anode in an extremely cold environment. —Lu et al.

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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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MARCH 24, 2025

If you care about energy markets & policy or the environment, you probably are breathing into a paper bag right now. Universities are the backbone of innovation. I have not been this worried about the future of our planet during my lifetime. And I am somewhat old. In banana years, I would be bread.

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AUGUST 19, 2022

Now, a team from the University at Buffalo, Southern Illinois University, University of South Carolina and Brookhaven National Laboratory reports a highly active and stable Ru-free catalyst from earth-abundant elements for efficient carbon-free hydrogen generation via ammonia decomposition. C” Energy Environ.

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AUGUST 7, 2022

In partnership with key universities, four companies—Bluecity, GEKOT Inc., GEKOT Inc, has partnered with Razor USA and Oakland University (OU) to help address this need. GEKOT will integrate its technical solutions package into Razor electric scooters soon to be deployed on the campus of Oakland University.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

University of Queensland researchers, working in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), have found a way to convert sugarcane into isobutanol— a building block of aviation fuel and other products—more efficiently. An open-access paper on the work is published in Chemistry - a European Journal.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

Researchers from the University of Birmingham have designed a novel adaptation for existing blast furnaces that could reduce CO 2 emissions from the steelmaking industry by nearly 90%. The perovskite can be regenerated to its original form in a chemical reaction that takes place in a low oxygen environment.

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MAY 21, 2023

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a new Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) at the University of Bayreuth. The synergistic research within the endeavor that relates the behaviour of electrons, ions, molecules and heat is expected to lead to a vital and fundamental understanding of transport in tailored environments.

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Green Car Congress

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. Robots and robotics for any environment.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Projects will work to reduce the LCOE through multiple approaches, including increasing generation efficiency, increasing rotor area per unit of equivalent mass, lowering operation and maintenance costs, minimizing potential impacts on the surrounding environment, and maximizing system reliability. The University of Michigan.

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OCTOBER 18, 2020

The BOTTLE: Bio-Optimized Technologies to Keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment funding opportunity is jointly funded by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Bioenergy Technologies Office and Advanced Manufacturing Office. Partners include BASF and University of Georgia.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

Researchers in China led by a team from Fudan University have demonstrated the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 toward C 2+ alcohols with a faradaic efficiency of ~70% using copper (Cu) catalysts with stepped sites. Schematic of the synthesis of electrocatalysts and the subsequent CO 2 RR process. (A

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

Researchers from London South Bank University (LSBU), School of the Built Environment and Architecture, are investigating the use of metal hydrides to absorb, release and store hydrogen for fuel cell buses.

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JULY 2, 2020

Project ASLAN is a new international not-for-profit collaboration between commercial enterprise, leading technology universities, transport authorities and self-driving hardware and software engineers. Vu, Professor, Intelligent Transport Systems at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

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MAY 16, 2023

The program expanded during 2022 to include 21 university partners and 61 projects focused on energy and materials, human-centered artificial intelligence, human interactive driving, machine learning, and robotics. However, all proposed alternatives don’t last long in an operating environment before they dissolve.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2019

Urban planners should plant hedges—or a combination of trees with hedges—rather than just relying on roadside trees if they are most effectively to reduce pollution exposure from cars in near-road environments, according to a new study from the University of Surrey. Atmospheric Environment doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.12.036.

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MAY 2, 2022

Accompanying the lower noise levels from bus traffic was a reduction of fatigue, day time sleepiness and low mood, a study at the University of Gothenburg shows. Previous noise-level measurements had indicated that disturbance from low-frequency noise in indoor environments was present in the residential area.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2020

In a first, University of Sydney researchers have found evidence of how hydrogen causes embrittlement of steels. This has been one of the major challenges in moving towards a greener, hydrogen-fueled future, where steel tanks and pipelines are essential components that must be able to survive in pure hydrogen environments.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Scottish Enterprise, Transport Scotland and the Hydrogen Accelerator, based at the University of St Andrews, have appointed Arcola Energy and a consortium of industry leaders in hydrogen fuel cell integration, rail engineering and functional safety to deliver Scotland’s first hydrogen powered train.

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MAY 20, 2019

An international team of researchers, led by Professor David Antonelli of Lancaster University, has discovered a new material made from manganese hydride that could be used to make molecular sieves within hydrogen fuel tanks. —Professor Antonelli, Chair in Physical Chemistry at Lancaster University. wt% and 197 kgH 2 m ?

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APRIL 20, 2023

The rover will have thermal management function and radiation shielding to withstand the extreme environment of the lunar surface. Ultimately, the goal is to deliver a universally applicable mobility platform to handle a variety of payloads. The solar-powered, autonomous driving mobility unit will weigh around 70 kg.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Now, researchers led by Associate Director LEE Hyoyoung of the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) located at Sungkyunkwan University, S. Korea, have developed a highly efficient and long-lasting electrocatalyst for water oxidation using cobalt, iron, and a minimal amount of ruthenium.

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MAY 16, 2022

Using new analytical methods, the research group “CritMET: Critical Metals for Enabling Technologies” led by Michael Bau, Professor of Geochemistry at Jacobs University in Bremen has studied the distribution of germanium and gallium in iron-manganese crusts from the deep sea. Source: Jacobs University).

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MARCH 1, 2023

The US Department of Transportation has awarded a $15-million grant to renew the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT), based in Ann Arbor and led by the University of Michigan. million over its first six years, CCAT is one of 10 regional USDOT University Transportation Centers nationwide.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The local coordination environment (LCE) has recently been shown to play a vital role in boosting the reaction kinetics in many emerging electrocatalytic systems that are traditionally considered to be ‘sluggish’. 2021) “Improving Pd–N–C fuel cell electrocatalysts through fluorination-driven rearrangements of local coordination environment.”

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

However, the health effects of these compounds, and how readily they migrate into the environment, are largely unknown. Lixi Zeng and colleagues at Jinan University in China wanted to investigate the occurrence of emerging HPAs and SAs in dust from e-waste recycling centers. 1c00866.

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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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DECEMBER 29, 2022

Researchers at the University of Vienna (Austria) have demonstrated that tire wear particle (TWP)-derived compounds are readily taken up by lettuce with measured maximum leaf concentrations between ∼0.75 for N-phenyl-N′-(1,3-dimethylbutyl)-p-phenylenediamine (6PPD) and 20 μg g –1 for hexamethoxymethyl melamine (HMMM). million tons per year.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2018

New research by George Mason University found that exposure to certain air pollutants is linked to increased emergency department (ED) visits for respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. The study is published in the journal Environment International. We estimated associations between twelve ambient air pollutants of both primary (e.g.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

Described in a paper in the journal Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment , the modeling approach has low data requirements and is computationally efficient. Funding for this research came from the US Department of Transportation’s University Transportation Centers Program and Cornell Atkinson. 2022.103505.

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MARCH 11, 2021

ion Ventures is leading the deployment of the battery in a real-world environment with a view to deploying it into the grid storage market in the future. LiNa Energy was formed in the summer of 2017 as a spin-out of Lancaster University.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The building is home to the Paihau-Robinson Research Institute , part of Victoria University of Wellington. How Electric Propulsion Works In 2023, Paihau-Robinson installed the first version of their superconducting electromagnet onto an existing ion thruster at Nagoya University in Japan. It too is new to the space environment.

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AUGUST 22, 2020

million in research, education, and training grants to universities that comprise the agency’s Air Transportation Center of Excellence (COE) for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), also known as the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE). Mississippi State University – lead University.

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