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NOVEMBER 11, 2012

Researchers at Isfahan University of Technology (Iran) report the efficient production of cellulosic ethanol from rice straw using a new sodium carbonate pretreatment method. Rice straw was treated with sodium carbonate (Na 2 CO 3 )prior to enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation. and 1 M sodium carbonate solution.

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AUGUST 15, 2012

A team from the University of New South Wales (Australia) reports on a novel core-shell strategy leading to high and stable hydrogen absorption/desorption cycling for sodium borohydride (NaBH 4 ) under mild pressure conditions (4 MPa) in an open-access paper in the journal ACS Nano. Credit: ACS, Christian and Aguey-Zinsou.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

Solid-state sodium battery company LiNa Energy ( earlier post ) has closed out a £3.5-million LiNa Energy, a spin-out from Lancaster University, established in 2017, is commercializing a safe, cobalt- and lithium-free solid-state sodium battery. million (US$4.8-million) —Dr Gene Lewis, CEO of LiNa Energy.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

Stanford researchers have developed a sodium-ion battery (SIB) that can store the same amount of energy as a state-of-the-art lithium ion, at substantially lower cost. Thus, further research is required to find better sodium host materials. The sodium salt makes up the cathode; the anode is made up of phosphorous.

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JUNE 30, 2023

Swedish sodium-ion battery developer Altris presented a pure Prussian White cathode material with a capacity of 160 mAh/g, making it the highest capacity declared to date. Prussian White is a framework material consisting of sodium, iron, carbon and nitrogen (Na x Fe[Fe(CN) 6 ] with x>1.9). Earlier post.)

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APRIL 20, 2023

CATL also says it can achieve mass production of condensed battery in a short period of time. CATL said it will also launch the automotive-grade version of condensed batteries, which are expected to be put into mass production within this year. These have been used on multiple high-end BEVs such as ZEEKR, AITO and Li Auto.

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APRIL 12, 2023

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University with collaborators at the University of Oregon and Manchester Metropolitan University have developed a seawater-resilient bipolar membrane electrolyzer. Resources D.H. Marin, J.T. Perryman et al. 2023.03.005

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Professor John Goodenough, the inventor of the lithium-ion battery, and his team at the University of Texas at Austin have identified a new cathode material made of the nontoxic and inexpensive mineral eldfellite (NaFe(SO 4 ) 2 ), presenting a significant advancement in the quest for a commercially viable sodium-ion battery.

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MAY 15, 2015

British battery R&D company Faradion has demonstrated a proof-of-concept electric bike powered by sodium-ion batteries at the headquarters of Williams Advanced Engineering, which collaborated in the development of the bike. Oxford University was also a partner. Sodium-ion intercalation batteries—i.e., Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

The projects, led by universities, private companies, and national laboratories, were selected to develop technologies to advance UNF recycling, reduce the volume of high-level waste requiring permanent disposal, and provide safe domestic advanced reactor fuel stocks. Earlier post.) Award amount: $6,449,997). Award amount: $2,659,677).

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DECEMBER 25, 2013

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a battery based on the concept of a combination of a perovskite-type cathode and a low-electrode-potential anode that can achieve high energy densities through the use of organic rather than aqueous electrolytes. Earlier post.). —Hibino et al. under milder conditions than usual.

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DECEMBER 26, 2011

Researchers from Tatung and National Cheng Kung Universities in China, and Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, report manufacturing a new oxygenate additive for diesels (bio or petroleum) using glycerol (a major byproduct of biodiesel production), dimethyl sulfate (DMS), and sodium hydroxide pellets as raw materials.

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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. Understanding how sodium-oxygen batteries work has implications for developing the more powerful lithium-oxygen battery, which has been proposed by some as the “holy grail” of electrochemical energy storage.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Scientists at the University of New South Wales (Australia) have developed a new bio-inspired method for carrying out chemical reduction—an industrial process used to produce fuels and chemicals. A report on their work is published in the journal Angewandte Chemie. —Stephen Colbran.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Researchers from the University of Houston have reported a significant breakthrough with a new oxygen evolution reaction catalyst that, combined with a hydrogen evolution reaction catalyst, achieved current densities capable of supporting industrial demands while requiring relatively low voltage to start seawater electrolysis.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Natron Energy , a developer of new battery cell technology based on Prussian Blue analogue electrodes and a sodium-ion electrolyte, has closed a strategic investment by Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV) to support the development of stationary energy storage systems for demand charge management at electric vehicle (EV) charging stations.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

A research group from Osaka Metropolitan University has developed a cheaper positive electrode to enhance all-solid-state sodium batteries. The post Sodium batteries improved with new electrode material appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Researchers at Vanderbilt University have demonstrated that ultrafine sizes (∼4.5 nm, average) of iron pyrite (FeS 2 ) nanoparticles are advantageous to sustain reversible conversion reactions in sodium ion and lithium ion batteries. A paper on their work is published in the journal ACS Nano.

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

A team of researchers from universities and national laboratories led by Tufts University has developed catalysts composed of a unique structure of single gold atoms bound by oxygen to several sodium or potassium atoms and supported on non-reactive silica materials. Catalysts Hydrogen Hydrogen Production'

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MAY 1, 2013

Researchers at the University of Wyoming Carbon Management Institute (CMI) discovered a major new lithium resource near Rock Springs during a geological carbon dioxide storage site characterization project sponsored by the US Department of Energy. Presently, the US imports more than 80% of the lithium used domestically.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

A team of researchers from Tufts University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Harvard University report that alkali ions (sodium or potassium) added in small amounts activate platinum adsorbed on alumina or silica for the low-temperature water-gas shift (WGS) reaction (H 2 O+CO→ H 2 +CO 2 ) used for producing hydrogen.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The Faraday Battery Challenge is part of the UK government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF), overseen by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to help transform the production of batteries for the future of electric vehicles (EVs) in the UK. Next generation sodium ion batteries–NEXGENNA.

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MARCH 15, 2018

The researchers present these results in the journal Nature Reviews Materials as part of a cost and resource analysis of sodium-ion batteries. … However, the production of lithium will require substantial expansion, even if only parts of the presented scenario were to become reality. —Vaalma et al.

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

The results are the first under Talga’s UK Government funded “Safevolt” project—a Talga-led program run in conjunction with consortia partners, Johnson Matthey, the University of Cambridge and manufacturing research group, TWI.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Australia-based Sparc Technologies has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). The partnership will begin with a project in the battery anode space with the development of a novel process for the production of hard carbon from bio-waste. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. Columbia University. Harvard University. Earlier post.)The

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

A team of researchers from Northwestern University, UCLA and the University of St. Fraser Stoddart at Northwestern and his colleagues set themselves a challenge to synthesize MOFs from natural products. Fraser Stoddart (2010) Metal-Organic Frameworks from Edible Natural Products. A rendering of an element of a CD-MOF.

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JULY 28, 2009

Using electrolyzed water rather than harsh chemicals could be a more effective and environmentally friendly method in the pretreatment of ethanol waste products to produce an acetone-butanol-ethanol fuel mix, according to research conducted at the University of Illinois. coli on fresh fruits and vegetables. Resources. 52(3): 885-892.

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AUGUST 29, 2010

The biorefinery will convert the process waste effluent from the plant into cellulosic ethanol, sodium acetate and clean, warm water. Michigan Technical University will contribute research to improve fermentation processes and also on the use of sodium acetate for novel de-icing applications.

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MARCH 13, 2012

This research is a collaborative project between CSIRO, NSW Department of Primary Industries, University of Adelaide, the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology. Durum wheat, used for making such food products as pasta and couscous, is particularly susceptible to soil salinity.

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JANUARY 30, 2012

A team from Stanford University and Ruhr-Universität Bochum have demonstrated the novel concept of a “desalination battery” that uses an electrical energy input to extract sodium and chloride ions from seawater and to generate fresh water. 2), while recharging the electrodes results in the production of a brine stream (Steps 3?4).

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Researchers at Ohio State University (OSU) have demonstrated the concept of a potassium-air (K?O Potassium, an alkali metal similar to lithium (and sodium) can be used in a rechargeable battery. Moreover, within this small charging potential range, almost 90% of the discharged product can be oxidized. O 2 battery (0.5

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

A spin-off from the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Yellow Diesel B.V. , is commercializing a reactor technology based on heterogeneous catalysis for the production of high-quality biodiesel plus a cosmetics/food grade glycerol, with practically no waste streams. the holding company of the University of Amsterdam.

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

Two chemists at Brown University have streamlined the conversion of waste vegetable oil (WVO) into biodiesel, eliminating the need for corrosive chemicals to perform the reactions. Also, the conversion requires the toxic chemicals sulfuric acid and either potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide. That makes the process less efficient.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2021

—co-corresponding author Giulia Galli, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. —co-corresponding author Kyoung-Shin Choi, University of Wisconsin-Madison. To create a bismuth-rich surface, the scientists placed one sample in a solution of sodium hydroxide, a strong base. —Mingzhao Liu.

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JANUARY 8, 2015

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory will work with three of the world’s leading nuclear products and services companies on advanced nuclear reactor design projects. GE Hitachi (GEH) is partnering with Argonne to develop an updated safety assessment of the company’s PRISM sodium-cooled fast reactor.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

Scientists at Stanford University have developed electrochemical cells that convert carbon monoxide (CO) derived from CO 2 into commercially viable compounds more effectively and efficiently than existing technologies. —senior author Matthew Kanan, an associate professor of chemistry at Stanford University. mol C 2+ products cm

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