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May 28, 2025
NSF awards $300K grant to LyoWave to scale up tech developed by AAE's and ChE's Alexeenko
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $304,436 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to LyoWave Inc. for a project that could increase the availability of lifesaving medicines and reduce pharmaceutical development and manufacturing costs.
May 16, 2025
Purdue professor publishes lithium-ion battery sustainability viewpoint in ACS Energy Letters
With electric vehicle (EV) sales projected to reach 38 million annually by 2030, the global race to decarbonize transportation has intensified. But behind the promise of cleaner mobility lies a complex challenge: how to build sustainable batteries without exacerbating environmental degradation or human rights concerns.
April 4, 2025
Charging a lithium-ion battery at -100 Celsius to set Guinness World Record
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are everywhere in our lives. LIB application fields are even growing into military missions and advanced exploration, which require resistance to severe cold in the polar region of the Earth and in outer space. But even state-of-the-art LIBs suffer from huge performance degradation as temperatures decrease, and they stop operating at all in extreme cold.
February 11, 2025
ChE's Dou studies alternate material that could cut solar cell costs by more than 75%
The next five to 10 years will be an exciting time for perovskite solar technology to make the next giant leap, from lab to fab.