Applied Sciences
Battery could find use in mobile applications, and eventually, electric vehicles with 300-mile range.
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Prospects for economic and sustainable fuel alternative enhanced with discovery.
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Particles suspended in cooling water could prevent hotspots in nuclear plant cooling systems and electronics
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Yanliang Zhang wants to make vehicles more efficient by using a resource most people aren’t even aware of — the waste heat that results from the inherent inefficiency of engines when converting fuel into energy.
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To pursue new research and application possibilities for a promising new computational technology – automata computing – the University of Virginia has established a new Center for Automata Computing, with seed funding from, and close collaboration with, the technology’s inventor, Micron Technology Inc.
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Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories will use their expertise in protein expression, enzyme engineering and high-throughput assays as part of a multiproject, $34 million effort by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) aimed at developing advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation.
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Researchers studying more effective ways to convert woody plant matter into biofuels at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have identified fundamental forces that change plant structures during pretreatment processes used in the production of bioenergy.
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New research has uncovered an underutilized berry that could be the new super fruit, the buffaloberry.
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Long-term collaboration between Hazelwood School District and Washington University’s Institute for School Partnership showing measurable progress.
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A replacement for oil has become a burning need in the 21st century. Researchers have invented a process to make a green feed alternative for crude oil out of two of the most common substances on Earth – water and carbon dioxide.
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New York University has launched a new multi-million dollar collaboration to enable university researchers to harness the full potential of the data-rich world that characterizes all fields of science and discovery.
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