Sentences with phrase «energy applications including»

The focus of her research is the colloidal synthesis and characterization of sustainable nanomaterials for energy applications including solar cells and LEDs.

Abstract: Ion conducting membranes are of interest for various energy applications including fuel cells and artificial photosynthesis systems.

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• Nano - C, a Westwood, Mass. - based developer of nanostructured carbon for energy and electronics applications, raised $ 11.5 million in funding, including a $ 3 million tranche from Ray Stata, cofounder and current chairman of Analog Devices.

While initial applications focused on the financial services industry, the potential for blockchain is so broad that many other industries present opportunities, including: cybersecurity, academia, government, transportation, entertainment, real estate, insurance, healthcare, energy management, and information technology.

It comprises 56 prospecting rights applications, 23 of which have been granted as Prospecting Rights by the Japanese Ministry of Energy, Trade and Industry (METI), authorizing the Company to commence more advanced exploration methods, including drilling.

TransCanada put its application on hold in September after the National Energy Board said would use a tougher review process that would include looking at indirect emissions related to the pipeline, from production to end use of the oil.

The Company's transmissions are used in a range of applications, including on - highway trucks (distribution, refuse, construction, fire and emergency), buses (primarily school, transit and hybrid - transit), motorhomes, off - highway vehicles and equipment (energy, mining and construction) and defense vehicles (wheeled and tracked).

The maker of heavy equipment for applications including construction, energy, and mining suffered for years from sluggish macroeconomic conditions around the world, and things looked similarly downbeat coming into 2016.

Amending the Responsible Energy Development Act to include a requirement that the regulator must consider whether resource development applications are in the public interest, and reinstate the right of landowners to appeal environmental decisions affecting their land to an independent Environmental Appeals Board.

The Grid + smart energy agent gives consumers a point of access to a huge amount of applications, including those that can generate passive income, by making the smart energy agent perform as a Blockchain - enabled IoT device.

These practices include steps to reduce source water use in cleaning and sanitation; minimize use of cleaning products and other chemicals; decrease the volume and strength of wastewater produced and associated energy required for treatment; minimize the water and energy needed for heating and cooling operations; and optimize the effectiveness of land application systems for wastewater treatment.

Solvay serves diversified global end markets, including automotive and aerospace, consumer goods and healthcare, energy and environment, electricity and electronics, building and construction as well as industrial applications.

Our materials make innovation design solutions possible in a range of industries including consumer electronics, solar and wind energy, fuel cells, package printing, aerospace, automotive, food safety and industrial applications.

These system - on - a-chip innovations will drive a host of new technologies and products in the consumer and business marketplace, including smart phones, tablets, and laptops; 3D systems for gaming; ultrafast and secure computer servers and IT systems; and sensor technology for emerging health care, clean energy and environmental applications.

Superconductivity's potential technological applications — which include energy - efficient power transmission, superstrong magnets and levitating trains — have attracted heaps of scientific interest in the phenomenon.

And it continues to pursue research into alternative fuels and technologies that can further reduce the carbon intensity of energy applications across a variety of sectors, including electricity production and transportation.

Arrays of silicon nanotubes have many potential applications, including for solar - energy harvesting, photonics, and biological processes such as drug delivery.

It leads the nation in patent applications because of the high concentration of high - tech research institutes, including the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW).

Instead, a private consortium of investors, including investment bank Goldman Sachs and private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., purchased the power generation company and last week changed its name to Energy Future Holdings Corporation after withdrawing eight of the planned applications.

As Hockfield moves into her role as AAAS president, she often makes the point that the challenges facing the world as the population grows to more than 9 billion by 2050 — including the need for improved access to sufficient food, clean water, sustainable energy and health care — can only be met through fundamental scientific and engineering research, accompanied by the translation of that research into market - ready applications.

García - Garibay hopes to design crystals that take advantage of properties of light, and whose applications could include advances in communications technology, optical computing, sensing and the field of photonics, which takes advantage of the properties of light; light can have enough energy to break and make bonds in molecules.

Ong, who leads the Materials Virtual Lab and is a faculty member in the Sustainable Power and Energy Center at UC San Diego, uses a combination of high - throughput calculations and machine learning to discover next - generation materials for energy applications, including batteries, fuel cells andEnergy Center at UC San Diego, uses a combination of high - throughput calculations and machine learning to discover next - generation materials for energy applications, including batteries, fuel cells andenergy applications, including batteries, fuel cells and LEDs.

The researchers say this advance in nanoscience opens vast opportunities for a wide range of applications that includes catalysis (the acceleration of a chemical reaction by a catalyst), energy storage (batteries or supercapacitors), and bio / plasmonic imaging, among others.

Having established their technique, Whitmire said it will now be much easier to investigate hybrid catalysts for many applications, including petrochemical production, energy conversion and refrigeration.

Further applications could include everything from energy - saving power plants to self - cleaning windows.

Examples of the high temperature applications include turbine engine control in aerospace and energy generation and oil field instruments.

Russell, her advisor, points out that the advance holds promise for a wide range of different applications including in drug delivery, biosensing, fluidics, photovoltaics, encapsulation and bicontinuous media for energy applications and separations media.

Strontium cobaltites are just one example of a class of materials known as transition metal oxides, which is considered promising for a variety of applications including electrodes in fuel cells, membranes that allow oxygen to pass through for gas separation, and electronic devices such as memristors — a form of nonvolatile, ultrafast, and energy - efficient memory device.

The authors say that as energy storage density improves — and with their work it is now approaching the capacity of lithium batteries — applications for the new technology include such possibilities as solar pads that collect energy from the sun by day, then store it for heating food, living spaces, clothing or blankets at night.

The innovative nanotechnology uses non-biodegradable plastic grocery bags to make «carbon nanotube membranes» — highly sophisticated and expensive materials with a variety of potential advanced applications including filtration, sensing, energy storage and a range of biomedical innovations.

Understanding these effects quantitatively is important in order to develop this promising family of materials for potential applications including new types of low - energy computer memory and processing devices, electrically based refrigeration, and electro - catalytic energy - conversion devices such as fuel cells.

The discovery could lead to a large range of real - world applications, including low - energy water harvesting and purification for the developing world, and fabric that automatically pulls sweat away from the body and releases it as a vapor.

«These findings and the follow - on studies are critical for applications, including energy storage and electric vehicles,» said Dr. Jun Liu, a key player in the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research and a PNNL materials scientist on the energy storage and electric vehicles,» said Dr. Jun Liu, a key player in the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research and a PNNL materials scientist on the Energy Storage Research and a PNNL materials scientist on the study.

Beams with high energy and fluence are expected to advance a range of applications including advanced X-ray sources and studies of the physics at extreme intensities.

Our ultimate goal is to use these new methods to track chemical reactions as they occur under a variety of conditions, including variable pressures and temperatures, and to use that knowledge to design and make new materials for energy applications.

2D nanomaterials are emerging as ideal structures for making electronics devices for a host of applications, including in energy and optics.

Studying these examples, researchers were inspired to contemplate how they might create similar crystal structures for a range of practical applications including energy storage.

Fishing gear design, performance and operating efficiency, fish behavior and response to fishing gear stimuli, catching efficiency and catchability, environmental impacts of fishing including bycatch and discards, seabed impact and fuel consumption, design and application of bycatch reduction devices, environmental management systems, energy audits, electronic log books

«This is critical for applications, including electric vehicles and energy storage,» said Dr. Jun Liu, a materials scientist on the study and Director of PNNL's Transformational Materials Science Initiative, which funded the research.

Her many research highlights include the development of new nanomaterials and chemical processes for use in a range of high technology applications, including catalysis, energy, healthcare, chemicals and food coatings, and novel dynamic electron microscopies.

The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) is a non-profit trade association that promotes the appropriate development and application of all aspects of wind energy in Canada, including the creation of a suitable policy enviroEnergy Association (CanWEA) is a non-profit trade association that promotes the appropriate development and application of all aspects of wind energy in Canada, including the creation of a suitable policy enviroenergy in Canada, including the creation of a suitable policy environment.

Within the integrated Earth system science paradigm, our major research thrusts include the physics and chemistry of aerosols, clouds and precipitation; integrating our understanding of climate, energy, and other human and natural systems through the development and application of models that span a wide range of spatial scales; and determining the impacts of and informing responses to climate and other global and regional environmental changes.

Prof. Su's current research fields include the design, the synthesis, the property study and the molecular engineering of nanostructures and highly organized and hierarchically self - assembled porous materials, bio-integrated living and bio-inspired materials including leaf - like materials by the immobilization of living organisms and biomaterials for catalysis, photocatalysis, CO2 reduction and water splitting, artificial photosynthesis, nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, energy storage and conversion, cell therapy and biomedical applications.

His research interests include chemistry of nanostructured materials, in particular porous materials, and related functional applications, especially for clean energy.

This includes world class leaders with multi-physics and multi-scale expertise from the EMNs as well as leaders of other high - impact materials initiatives in clean energy applications.

The Northwest Climate Toolbox currently has ten tools, or applications designed around a set of climate metrics such as temperature, precipitation, and more complex measures including the energy release component (we'll get to that last one in a bit).

The exec also says new powertrain applications, including «New Energy applications,» are part of the plan.

This includes the design and manufacture of high performance vehicles, the development of battery and flywheel energy storage systems, commercial applications of Williams» motorsport simulation technology, and engineering consulting and systems integration services.

The world has within its technological grasp, financial means, and know - how the means to mitigate climate change while also ending extreme poverty, through the application of sustainable development solutions including the adoption of low - carbon energy systems supported by information and communications technologies;

Some of those performance characteristics include: low density, flexible without fatiguing, energy return, power transmission, low temperature application, chemical and ultra violet (UV) light resistance.