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• Charging electric vehicles 5x faster

  A stabilizing coating on an electrode, combined with microscale channels, helps solve the trade-off between range and charging speed, even in cold temperatures.

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• Breaking cost barriers, solving global business problems

  The Vienna Spring Break program aimed to provide 13 Michigan Ross undergraduate and master’s students with hands-on experience. Rather than having the students work on hypothetical case studies, WU Wien assistant professor Eva Marckhgott—who taught the class—collaborated with a real company facing real business challenges.

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• Dicamba drift

  A University of Michigan study examined the effects of the herbicide, called dicamba, and found that plants exposed to dicamba drift had a lowered abundance of pollinators, and that pollinator visits to flowers were reduced for some weeds, but not others.

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• hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engines

  Hydrogen has the potential to power internal combustion engines, including on-road and off-road vehicles and equipment, and large marine engines. Despite its promise to reduce climate change emissions such as carbon dioxide and harmful pollutants, hydrogen has largely remained underutilized in the United States.

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