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Published 17 May 2021 Rare earths elements (REEs) are used in cancer treatment and electric engines, telescope lenses and TVs, cellphones and fighter jets. Many REEs are extracted and refined almost entirely in China. The U.S. was 100% net import reliant on rare-earth elements in 2018, importing an estimated 11,130 metric tons of compounds and metals valued at $160 million. The Department of Energy is funding research to make separating rare earths easier and more efficient, and to promote recycling. “There is a clock ticking in the background of this race for a rare-earth supply chain. The...

Columbus, Neb. – The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) recently held an awards ceremony where Nebraska Public Power District Director of Research Alan Dostal and Environmental Operations and Coordination Supervisor Jason Vanek were recognized for their invaluable contributions to two important projects in 2020. Dostal and Vanek were two of 19 winners of EPRI’s 2020 [...]

SLAC With a new suite of tools, scientists discovered exactly how tiny plate-like catalyst particles carry out a key step in that conversion – the evolution of oxygen in an electrocatalytic cell – in unprecedented detail. Transitioning from fossil fuels to a clean hydrogen economy will require cheaper and more efficient ways to use renewable sources of electricity to break water into hydrogen and oxygen. But a key step in that process, known as the oxygen evolution reaction or OER, has proven to be a bottleneck. Today it’s only about 75% efficient, and the precious metal catalysts used...

share: Esther Takeuchi Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences Takeuchi, a leading battery researcher at Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University professor, joins a longstanding tradition that recognizes excellence across fields May 4, 2021 Esther S. Takeuchi, a joint appointee of Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University, in 2017. UPTON, NY–Esther S. Takeuchi, a celebrated materials scientist and chemical engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In a tradit...

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], April 29 (ANI/Mediawire): Atria University Act 2020 passed by Karnataka has given the Bengaluru-based university a State Private University Status.