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million grant to researchers at Texas A&M AgriLife Research to investigate potential discoveries for waste products used in lignocellulosic biofuel production, turning them into valuable agents used in producing commercial products such as biodiesel and asphalt binding agents. in Washington State and the University of Tennessee.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The US Department of Transportation announced that the National Center for Sustainable Transportation ( NCST ), housed at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), would receive $20 million to lead a group of seven universities studying transportation effects on the environment. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 20, 2019

The financing was co-led by The Engine and by The GOOSE Society of Texas. Licensed from Rice University, the “antenna-reactor” plasmonic photocatalyst has been published in leading academic journals such as Science , Nature , and PNAS. million in Series A funding.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) selected five projects for grants totaling almost $2 million for research on innovative processes to further improve air quality in the US and help track the effectiveness of pollution control measures.

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JANUARY 21, 2014

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering have rewired the native metabolism of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica for superior production of lipids (lipogenesis). Ingram, director of the Florida Center for Renewable Chemicals and Fuels at the University of Florida. Resources.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

The new grant recipients were selected using a competitive merit-review process. The grants awarded were in response to RFP-I, a request for proposals the GRI Research Board issued on 25 April 2011. The Research Consortia funded are: Lead Institution: The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The US Department of Energy will award some $17 million in research grants to 23 university-led teams aimed at strengthening the research and development capabilities of American universities and colleges to develop the next generation of nuclear energy technologies and upgrade research reactors across the country.

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JUNE 24, 2014

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) announced funding for a new joint research projects to advance clean emission technologies. Funding through the organizations’ Connecting through Research Partnerships (“Connect”) program has been granted for $125,000 for this project.

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MAY 16, 2023

Researchers led by engineers at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) have proposed a low-cost, cactus-inspired nickel-based material to help split water more cheaply and efficiently. The material is described in a paper in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. who led the study. —Attarzadeh et al.

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

LFP material was discovered at the University of Texas in Austin in 1995 and licensed to Hydro-Québec. All litigations will be dismissed and a license under these patents will be granted to A123, as agreed by the parties, under the settlement. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 26, 2009

Like the Recovery Act-funded projects, the annual Clean Cities projects include grants for vehicles, infrastructure, and education. Fleets include transportation authorities, cities, school districts, the University of Michigan, FedEx, and Meijer. Railroad Commission of Texas’ Texas Propane Fleet Pilot Program.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The NSF grant will address challenges that remain before the renewable strategy can be applied practically on a commercial scale. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Yuanyue Liu, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.

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MARCH 6, 2017

Researchers with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, led by Dr. Ying Li, associate professor of mechanical engineering, are developing a photocatalyst to convert CO 2 into renewable hydrocarbon fuels. —doctoral student Huilei Zhao.

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OCTOBER 13, 2014

Researchers from Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) led by Professor Xiaodong Chen have developed a new TiO 2 gel material for Li-ion battery anodes. by a team from the University of Texas at Austin noted that of the most studied polymorphs, nanostructured TiO 2 (B) has the highest capacity with promising high rate capabilities.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Daryoosh Vashaee at Oklahoma State University-Tulsa a five-year, $700,000 grant to perform research associated with thermoelectrics. The National Science Foundation (NSF) also awarded Dr. Vashaee a three-year, $200,000 grant to support TE work).

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AUGUST 3, 2022

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and Southwest Research Institute are collaborating to improve storage materials for hydrogen fuels with a hybrid metal-carbon microstructure that combines both chemical and physical hydrogen storage mechanisms. —Josh Mangum.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

received a $5-million grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the development of biojet fuel from woody biomass and forest product residues. The award is a portion of a $40-million grant presented to the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance ( NARA ), a consortium led by Washington State University (WSU).

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Coulomb’s ChargePoint America program will provide nearly 5,000 charging stations in nine regions in the United States: Austin, Texas, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Fla., Sacramento, Calif., the San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area, Bellevue/Redmond, Wash., and Washington DC.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

A University of Texas at Dallas physicist has teamed with Texas Instruments Inc. Study co-author Hal Edwards, a TI Fellow at Texas Instruments, designed and supervised fabrication of the prototype devices. A deep dive for these novel measurements, detailed analysis and literature comparisons requires a university group.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

The US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded nearly $4 million in grants to help accelerate the adoption of new measurement methods and standards to advance US competitiveness in metals-based additive manufacturing (AM). University of Texas at El Paso ($1 million).

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MAY 10, 2021

Texas Mineral Resources Corp. The Texas Mineral Resources consortium objective is to install a self-contained, modular and portable pilot plant at a Jeddo Coal Pennsylvania site, capable of producing 1-3 metric tons of rare earth oxides derived from coal waste material from Pennsylvania anthracite coal.

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APRIL 7, 2016

Now, a team led by researchers from Texas A&M AgriLife Research has identified the first committed step in the biosynthesis of hydrocarbon oil in B. Devarenne’s lab has been studying the concept of making fuel from algae on a $2-million National Science Foundation grant for four years.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The University of Michigan (U-M) and eight partner institutions will explore the use of ceramic ion conductors as replacements for the traditional liquid or polymer electrolytes in common lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and in flow cells for storing renewable energy in the grid.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Texas-based Universal EV Chargers recently announced that the company was selected by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) to receive grants in order to install 176 new DC fast charging ports throughout the state of Illinois. The total dollar amount of the Illinois EV charger grants is $5.8

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JUNE 13, 2019

Seven projects will be supported, three led by teams at DOE National Laboratories and four by Universities. The final details for each project award are subject to final grant and contract negotiations between DOE and the awardees. Projects announced today are selections for negotiation of financial award.

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded approximately $58 million to analyze methane hydrate deposits under the Gulf of Mexico. Estimates vary on the amount of energy that could be produced from methane hydrate worldwide, but the potential is huge.

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JULY 24, 2012

Headquartered at The University of Texas at Austin, Pecan Street Inc. OnStar and General Motors are partnering in the Pecan Street Inc.’s s smart grid research project in Austin’s Mueller community, the Pecan Street Demonstration. Supported by a $10.4

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JUNE 1, 2015

A University of Texas at Arlington engineering researcher is working to determine how oversized a battery has to be while operating safely and efficiently during its lifetime of use by the US Navy. A $320,000 ONR grant to understand the challenges faced when implementing a 1000 volts-direct-current lithium-ion battery.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

The Department of Energy (DOE) recently awarded The University of Texas at El Paso grants totaling nearly $1.3 The research is supported by a $491,081 award from the DOE’s University Turbine Systems Research (UTSR) Program. This research will be supported by a $299,991 DOE grant. Ramana, Ph.D.,

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AUGUST 12, 2021

Southwest Research Institute and The University of Texas at San Antonio (USTA) are collaborating to combine two catalytic processes into a single reactor, with the overall goal of recycling carbon from COCO 2 2 to produce low-cost hydrocarbon fuels. Seuser will use the catalysts in a SwRI reactor to assess their industrial viability.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have received about $2.5 Gamba will collaborate on the endeavor, which encompasses two grants from the National Science Foundation ($1.4 Gamba will collaborate on the endeavor, which encompasses two grants from the National Science Foundation ($1.4

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

MLC Flywheel Evaluation for Transportation by University of Texas. QSTP is part of the Qatar Foundation which also incorporates Education City, which hosts overseas campuses for six US universities including Carnegie Mellon and Texas A&M.

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MARCH 9, 2022

Research Center was launched in September, 2020 with a $50-million, 10-year grant from the National Science Foundation with its main purpose to support widespread adoption of electric transportation through developing technologies and clearing barriers leading to low cost, ubiquitous charging infrastructure.

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AUGUST 27, 2022

million grant from the DOE Office of Science. Other contributors hail from Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Wisconsin, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Texas at El Paso, the National Renewal Energy Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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JUNE 11, 2010

The projects—located in Louisiana, Texas and Illinois—were initially selected in October 2009 for phase one research and development grants. The project team includes Leucadia Energy, Denbury, General Electric, Haldor Topsoe, Black & Veatch, Turner Industries, and the University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology.

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JUNE 2, 2010

ChargePoint America will provide 4,600 Level II (220 – 240 volts) public and private ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations by October 2011 to program participants in nine regions in the United States: Austin, Texas; Detroit, Michigan; Los Angeles, California; New York, New York; Orlando, Fla.; Sacramento, Calif.; and Washington DC.

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Source: Texas A&M. Bill Roberts, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State and primary investigator of the grant. The $2 million grant is part of the federal stimulus package and comes from NSF’s Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation program. Dunaliella. Click to enlarge.

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