From Plants to Batteries
A Florida State University research team has developed a way to use a common material found in plants to help create safer, larger capacity batteries. By incorporating lignin an organic compound in the cell walls of plants that makes them rigid the team has created a type of electrolyte compound, says professor Hoyong Chung.
Electrolytes, which separate the negative and positive terminals of a battery, can be either liquid or solid, and each type has its strengths and weaknesses. “Liquid electrolytes are good conductors of ions, but solid electrolytes are typically safer, stronger and can be used at higher temperatures than liquid versions,” says Chung.
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TOMS RIVER Kim Spinelli spent Wednesday morning crying. There were tears of joy and a little bit of angst. For the first time in nearly four months, after a brutal struggle with COVID-19 that required 74 days on a ventilator and a tracheotomy, the 42-year-old from Brick was headed home.
“It was like being a baby bird pushed out of the nest,” she said.
Spinelli’s sister, Teena O’Connell, signed her out Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Toms River. O’Connell was by Kim’s side throughout the ordeal, singing to her when she was in a coma, decorating the walls of her hospital room, sometimes pleading with God from her bedside.
When Dr. Kurt Graham realized the âperilously lowâ vaccination rate at his facility, he implored his co-workers to take a shot.
Heâs the medical director at Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Fredericksburg, which deals with patients recovering from strokes or physical deterioration after long hospital stays.
He learned on Monday that only about 42 percent of Encompass staff had been vaccinated, a rate comparable to what heâs heard anecdotally for health care workers at hospitals and nursing homes in the Fredericksburg area. He immediately penned a letter to staff, saying he was reluctant to ask them to step outside their comfort zone, but even more worried about seeing them or patients hospitalized with COVID-19.
Encompass Health and Piedmont Healthcare announce joint venture to own and operate three inpatient rehabilitation hospitals in Georgia
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. and ATLANTA, May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Encompass Health Corp. (NYSE: EHC) and Piedmont Healthcare today announced they have executed a joint venture agreement to operate inpatient rehabilitation hospitals in Georgia. The parties are currently partnered on Regional Rehabilitation Hospital, in Phenix City, Alabama.
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Recently, the partnership was granted certificates of need to own and operate new inpatient rehabilitation hospitals in Atlanta and Columbus, Georgia. In Columbus, the joint venture will construct a new 40-bed, freestanding inpatient rehabilitation hospital near the Piedmont Columbus Regional Northside Campus. The 40-bed Atlanta location will be built inside of the Piedmont Atlanta Hospital. Both new Georgia hospitals are expected to begin providing
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