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Engines lab receives $1.4M grant to improve delivery vehicle energy efficiency
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The Thomas E. Murphy Engine Research Laboratory announced that it has been awarded a $1.4 million federal grant to research ways to boost energy efficiencies in cloud-connected delivery vehicles.
U of M startup CoreBiome provides services to accelerate microbiome discovery across industries
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The University of Minnesota announced the launch of CoreBiome Inc., a startup company based on University technology that provides analysis of microbial communities for improving human health, agricultural, environmental applications.
Researchers revolutionize vital conservation tool with use of gold nanotechnology and lasers
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In a new study, researchers provide the first-ever reproducible evidence for the successful cryopreservation of zebrafish embryos.
U of M startup enVerde LLC to commercialize new waste-to-energy gasification technology
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The Minneapolis-based clean tech startup company enVerde, developed and patented by Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Associate Professor Paul Dauenhauer, has signed an agreement with the University of Minnesota to develop a technology that converts organic waste materials into synthetic gas (syngas).
Researchers invent process to make sustainable rubber, plastics
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Synthetic rubber and plastics—used for manufacturing tires, toys and myriad other products—could soon get a lot greener, thanks to the ingenuity of a team of scientists from three U.S. research universities.
Scientists need your help in first-ever census of Weddell seals
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Scientists are asking for the public’s help to look through thousands of satellite images of Antarctica in the first-ever, comprehensive count of Weddell seals.
CSE faculty to lead sustainable energy research
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The Institute on the Environment announced the winner of a three-year, $750,000 grant in the area of sustainable energy. Professors R. Lee Penn and Eray S. Aydil in the College of Science and Engineering are the lead investigators on the winning project.
Researchers develop groundbreaking process for creating ultra-selective separation membranes
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A team of researchers has developed a groundbreaking one-step, crystal growth process for making ultra-thin layers of material with molecular-sized pores. Researchers demonstrated the use of the material, called zeolite nanosheets, by making ultra-selective membranes for chemical separations.
Dream of energy-collecting windows is one step closer to reality
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Researchers at the University of Minnesota and University of Milano-Bicocca are bringing the dream of windows that can efficiently collect solar energy one step closer to reality thanks to high tech silicon nanoparticles.
Researchers invent a breakthrough process to produce renewable car tires from trees and grasses
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A team of researchers, led by the University of Minnesota, has invented a new technology to produce automobile tires from trees and grasses in a process that could shift the tire production industry toward using renewable resources found right in our backyards.