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ICL breaks ground on $400M LFP battery materials manufacturing plant in St. Louis

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ICL, a global specialty minerals company, celebrated the groundbreaking of its battery materials manufacturing plant in St. Louis, which is expected to be the first large-scale lithium iron phosphate (LFP) facility in the US. ICL’s investment in the plant was augmented by a $197-million grant from the US Department of Energy.

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NSF awards UIC $1.44M to discover new 2D materials for better batteries

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million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to discover new 2D materials that can be used to manufacture better and cheaper batteries. During the four year grant cycle, Salehi-Khojin and Klie will be assisted by researchers at Washington University of St. The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $1.44-million

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Modeling study suggests 1.8M excess deaths attributable to urban air pollution in 2019

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In the second study, researchers looked at NO 2 (nitrogen dioxide gas), an air pollutant mainly emitted by vehicles, powerplants, industrial manufacturing, and agriculture. The first study was funded by grants from NASA and the Wellcome Trust. Two-thirds of pediatric asthma cases linked to air pollution in cities.

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CleanFUEL USA and Ferrellgas Working Together on Propane Refueling Network in US

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The companies expect to break ground on the first Dallas-Fort Worth station in the third quarter of 2010, which will be followed with projects in Austin, Baton Rouge, Chicago, Indianapolis, Lake Charles, New Orleans, Orlando, Phoenix, San Antonio and St. Tony Dale, Ferrellgas national director of engine fuels/Autogas.

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Founder of MIT’s Microsystems Technology Labs Dies at 88

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His first job was designing microwave radio systems in Yugoslavia for a radio equipment design and manufacturing startup. He left the company in 1986 and founded Communications Research, a consulting service for manufacturers, in Palo Alto, Calif. He authored and edited many technical manuals and was granted several U.S.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

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These projects, selected through a highly competitive process by the Department of Energy (DOE), are intended to accelerate the development of US manufacturing capacity for batteries and electric drive components as well as the deployment of electric drive vehicles. Industry officials expect that this $2.4 DOE Award ($mil.).

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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In 1969 Xerox had just bought Scientific Data Systems (SDS), a mainframe computer manufacturer. When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. Goldman tells it differently.

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