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DECEMBER 30, 2022

A team from the University of Calgary and Rice University has used flash joule heating (FJH) ( earlier post ) to convert low-value asphaltenes—a by-product of crude oil refining—into a high-value carbon allotrope, asphaltene-derived flash graphene (AFG). Flash graphene from asphaltenes. (A)

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MARCH 31, 2020

Taking an assembly line that manufactures subframes, a car part, and adapting it to make ventilators has been a lengthy, difficult job involving many areas of the company, and we managed to do it in the record time of one week. Designed in collaboration with Protofy.XYZ, they are being assembled at the SEAT facilities.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

and Waseda University have started testing in Japan of a jointly developed recycling process that efficiently recovers high-purity rare-earth compounds from electrified vehicle motor magnets. Nissan Motor Co., The testing is aimed at enabling practical application of the new process by the mid-2020s.

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APRIL 23, 2022

Teams from the following universities have been selected to begin the competition this fall: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Daytona Beach, FL) / Bethune-Cookman University (Daytona Beach, FL). McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada). Mississippi State University (Starkville, MS).

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

The US Department of Energy announced Stage 1 winners of the Conductivity-enhanced materials for Affordable, Breakthrough Leapfrog Electric and thermal applications ( CABLE ) Conductor Manufacturing Prize. The CABLE Conductor Manufacturing Prize is led by DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s?Advanced

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MAY 17, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected Arizona State University to lead the seventh Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute. EPIXC partners represent a wide variety of industries and include researchers, equipment manufacturers, and technology implementers.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

Siemens will invest and expand the company’s US manufacturing operations to support electric vehicle infrastructure in America. The company will bolster its existing manufacturing footprint of EV infrastructure with the VersiCharge Level 2 AC series product line of commercial and residential EV chargers.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Nebrija University (Spain) students undertook the redesign and technological improvement of a car of the Sodicars team that took part in the 2023 Dakar Rally in the top-class category (T1).The The agreement focuses in particular on the redesign of and technological improvements to Sodicars’ BV2 vehicle.

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DECEMBER 29, 2022

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, with collaborators from Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are advancing the Exascale Additive Manufacturing project ( ExaAM ). Turner et al.

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MARCH 20, 2021

Hydro-Québec’s Center of Excellence in Transportation Electrification and Energy Storage (CETEES) and the University of South Wales (USW) have signed commercial agreements to transfer patented hydrogen storage technology arising from USW research to Hydro-Québec to enable its commercialization. Lower manufacturing costs.

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AUGUST 8, 2020

OCTOPUS will take this leading-edge motor, power electronics and packaging transmission design, adding next generation materials, manufacturing processes, simulation and test cycles to deliver a full e-axle powertrain with unique levels of integration and revolutionary performance characteristics suitable for real world application by 2026.

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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.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Proton exchange membrane—or PEM—fuel cells are typically envisioned to be paired with hydrogen for multiple applications across different sectors, including transportation, stationary and backup power, metals manufacturing, and more. Along with PNNL, researchers from Washington University in St. —Yuyan Shao.

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JULY 7, 2022

Researchers from the University of Michigan and McGill University in Canada report photochemical syngas synthesis using a core/shell Au@Cr 2 O 3 dual cocatalyst in coordination with multistacked InGaN/GaN nanowires (NWs) with the sole inputs of CO 2 , water, and solar light. Image credit: Roksana Rashid, McGill University.

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MARCH 8, 2022

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will collaborate with the University of Michigan (UM) to use additive manufacturing and machine learning to create an advanced burner that will eliminate 99.5% The plan seeks to reduce methane emissions and promote American innovation and manufacturing of new technologies to achieve climate goals.

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JUNE 30, 2021

Researchers working on the Faraday Institution project on the recycling of lithium-ion batteries (ReLiB) at the Universities of Leicester and Birmingham say they have solved a critical challenge in the recovery of materials used in electric vehicle batteries at the end of their life, enabling their re-use in the manufacture of new batteries.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Credit: Atsushi Sakuda, Osaka Prefecture University. The first has to do with safety: if not manufactured with the highest standards, LIBs can malfunction. Finding novel, efficient electrode materials is therefore key for manufacturing ASSBs with high energy density. —Nagao et al.

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MARCH 23, 2021

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, in collaboration with KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, have produced a structural battery that performs ten times better than all previous versions. Structural battery composite fabrication, showing the steps: battery component manufacture, pouch?cell —Leif Asp.

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JUNE 1, 2020

A consortium comprising Engie Solutions, Siemens Gas and Power, Centrax, Arttic, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and four European universities is implementing the HYFLEXPOWER project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Framework Program for Research and Innovation (Grant Agreement 884229).

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JANUARY 21, 2021

Critical materials are used in many products important to the US economy and energy technologies, such as rare-earth elements used to manufacture high-strength magnets for offshore wind-turbine generators and lithium and cobalt in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. 525 Solutions, Inc.;

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AUGUST 20, 2021

The successful outcome of the collaboration would be to harness and industrialize UK academic capability to produce cells using highly scalable manufacturing techniques that leapfrog the cost-effectiveness and performance achieved elsewhere. E+R (Emerson & Renwick) – a world leading designer of manufacturing equipment.

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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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JULY 25, 2020

The aim of this collaboration between BMW AG, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Leichtbauzentrum Sachsen GmbH, Dresden University of Technology and WELA Handelsgesellschaft mbH is to develop new types of hydrogen storage tanks. These should be designed so that they can be easily integrated into universal vehicle architectures.

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JUNE 15, 2023

NANOMET is a nanocrystalline soft magnetic alloy that achieves both high saturation magnetic flux density and ultralow iron loss, invented at the Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University. It is sold exclusively by TMI, a spin-out from Tohoku University.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

—lead author Veronica Southerland, George Washington University. In the second study, researchers looked at NO 2 (nitrogen dioxide gas), an air pollutant mainly emitted by vehicles, powerplants, industrial manufacturing, and agriculture. Louis, the University of Washington, Dalhousie University, and the University of California.

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MAY 3, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil-fuel-producing communities across the country to support production of rare earth elements and critical minerals essential to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy.

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JUNE 18, 2021

Along with this funding, iM3NY has $230 million of manufacturing assets in place. Shailesh Upreti who has previously worked with Distinguished Professor Stanley Whittingham, a Nobel laureate for his work on lithium-ion battery development and a resident professor at Binghamton University.

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JANUARY 29, 2021

University of Cambridge’s Whittle Laboratory. University of Salford’s Acoustics Research Center. The project is supported by the ATI Program, a joint Government and industry investment to maintain and grow the UK’s competitive position in civil aerospace design and manufacture. Materials specialists, M&I Materials.

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JULY 28, 2020

In India, for example, Octillion has become the leading battery pack manufacturer after having shipped more than 600 buses worth of batteries to the country’s rapidly expanding market. Octillion is a turnkey battery supplier for the transportation market providing its customers with a bridge from design to manufacturing.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Drawing on our leadership team’s decades of experience, we intend to commercialize and scale-up membrane electrode assembly (MEA) production while working closely with Tier-1 manufacturers and original equipment manufacturers.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Manufacturers add synthetic antioxidants to plastics, rubbers and other polymers to make them last longer. Recently, manufacturers introduced a class of high-molecular weight synthetic phenolic antioxidants, also known as hindered phenol antioxidants (HPAs), with improved performance and slower migration from products. 1c00866.

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MAY 20, 2020

Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and Xi’an Jiaotong University, China have now developed a multifunctional interlayer between the electrolyte and the Li-metal anode, made of a spreadable material that helps improve solid-state battery current density tenfold, while also increasing performance and safety.

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OCTOBER 31, 2021

In addition, ENC was the first mass transit bus manufacturer to introduce front or center door ADA compliant wheelchair ramps. ENC has manufactured low-floor and standard-floor buses for more than 45 years to public transit/paratransit, airport, and university transportation markets.

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JUNE 13, 2021

—which intends to become a silicon anode materials supplier to the EV industry— entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with South Korean silicon powder manufacturer, Korea Metal Silicon Co., He is currently a Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Yonsei University. Korea Metal Silicon Co.

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MARCH 11, 2021

LiNa Energy is commercializing a safe, ~$50kWh (at mass manufacturing), cobalt-free battery platform that is suited to grid storage and the electrification of transportation. LiNa’s senior team has accumulated decades of materials engineering and design for manufacturing experience in the fuel cell industry.

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MAY 23, 2021

Australia-based Graphene Manufacturing Group Ltd. GMG) reported initial performance data for graphene-enhanced aluminum-ion batteries developed by GHG and the University of Queensland (UQ). University of Queensland testing data. GMG graphene is being used to produce coin cell prototypes for customer testing in Q4 2021.

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

Brown School of Engineering and colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Virginia is published in Nature Materials. Boyang Li of the University of Pittsburgh is co-lead author of the paper. Illustration by Zhen-Yu Wu. —Wu et al. That means we can’t fully rely on iridium. —Haotian Wang.

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