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			<title>Slideshow: Is Tesla's Model S the Best Ever?</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=263403&amp;f_src=designnews_section_1369</link>
			<dc:creator>Charles Murray</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Tesla Motors' Model S sedan "blew away" its $90,000 gasoline-burning competitors in a recent review and may be the best car Consumer Reports has ever seen.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 06:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Video: Robotic Ants Offer Transportation Design Tips</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=262372&amp;f_src=designnews_section_1369</link>
			<dc:creator>Ann R. Thryft</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[A study of how robotic ants navigate via swarm behavior, and the design of their trail networks, may make human transportation networks more efficient.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:45:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Slippery Material System Can Start, Stop Liquids</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=262004&amp;f_src=designnews_section_1369</link>
			<dc:creator>Ann R. Thryft</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[A new material system invented by researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering is continuously "tunable" for transparency and wettability: it repels water or oil to a greater or lesser degree as it becomes more or less transparent. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:45:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Can EV Batteries Last 20 Years?</title>
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			<dc:creator>Charles Murray</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Lithium-ion batteries for electric cars may last far longer than we've been led to believe, a battery expert told the American Chemical Society in a speech this week.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 06:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Digi-Key Continuing Education Center Wins Marketing Award</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=261687&amp;f_src=designnews_section_1369</link>
			<dc:creator>Charles Murray</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Design News magazine's popular Continuing Education Center has been named a Gold Award Winner in one of the country's most prestigious marketing contests.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Lithium-Ion Batteries Overheated in Mitsubishi Vehicles</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=261236&amp;f_src=designnews_section_1369</link>
			<dc:creator>Charles Murray</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[In yet another setback for lithium-ion battery technology, Mitsubishi Motors has acknowledged that it recently had a fire and an overheating incident involving the high-energy batteries.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 06:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Boeing: New Enclosure 'Keeps Us From Ever Having a Fire'</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=260624&amp;f_src=designnews_section_1369</link>
			<dc:creator>Charles Murray</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[The Boeing Co. took the issue of 787 battery fires head-on last night, definitively declaring that with pending modifications to its lithium-ion battery packs, a "fire can't begin, develop, or be sustained."]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:40:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Slideshow: Boeing Underestimated Possibility of Battery Fire</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=260356&amp;f_src=designnews_section_1369</link>
			<dc:creator>Charles Murray</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Boeing engineers and federal regulators appear to have vastly underestimated the possibility of a lithium-ion battery fire before the 787 Dreamliner's certification.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 06:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Slideshow: 'Boeing Battery Needs Liquid Cooling'</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=260153&amp;f_src=designnews_section_1369</link>
			<dc:creator>Charles Murray</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[With the root cause of the Boeing 787 battery fire still unclear, one leading battery expert suggested this week that the need for an active cooling system on Dreamliners is even more important.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>NASA Awards Bigelow Aerospace $17.8M to Add New Module to ISS </title>
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			<dc:creator>Elizabeth Montalbano</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[NASA has awarded Bigelow Aerospace a contract to deliver its Bigelow Expandable Activity Module to the International Space Station for experimental use for two years upon its launch to the station in 2015.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Ford, GM Face Off on Truck Engines</title>
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			<dc:creator>Charles Murray</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Two of the world's biggest automakers are squaring off for a multi-year truck engine battle, with one company trying to win by addition, while the other aims for victory by subtraction.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>NTSB: Short Circuit Caused 787 Battery Fire</title>
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			<dc:creator>Charles Murray</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[The Boeing 787 battery fire in Boston last month was caused by a battery short circuit that led to a thermal runaway condition, the National Transportation Safety Board said.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Tesla CEO: Boeing Batteries Needed Better Cooling</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=258307&amp;f_src=designnews_section_1369</link>
			<dc:creator>Charles Murray</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Questions about cooling the Boeing 787 batteries came up again this week, as Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk called the plane's large pack design risky.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Dow Plans North American Plastic Waste Recovery Facilities</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=257784&amp;f_src=designnews_section_1369</link>
			<dc:creator>Ann R. Thryft</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Dow Chemical and Klean Industries are collaborating to build waste recovery facilities throughout North America for recovering energy, chemicals, and oil from nonrecycled waste plastics. The agreement especially targets used plastic packaging materials.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 05:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Were the Boeing 787 Batteries Cooled Properly?</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=257987&amp;f_src=designnews_section_1369</link>
			<dc:creator>Charles Murray</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[The Boeing 787 Dreamliner's high-profile battery fire may have been the result of an engineering double-whammy: an energetic battery chemistry combined with a possibly inadequate cooling system.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Cereplast Commercializes Algae-Based Bioplastic</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=257197&amp;f_src=designnews_section_1369</link>
			<dc:creator>Ann R. Thryft</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Bioplastic leader Cereplast has successfully commercialized an injection-molding grade of algae-based bioplastics.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Biofase Makes Bioplastic From Avocado Pits</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=257242&amp;f_src=designnews_section_1369</link>
			<dc:creator>Ann R. Thryft</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[A Mexican company is offering a fully biodegradable, compostable polymer made from avocado pits for use as either a resin or an additive.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:45:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Lithium-Ion Batteries Emerge as Possible Culprit in Dreamliner Incidents</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=257519&amp;f_src=designnews_section_1369</link>
			<dc:creator>Charles Murray</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[A succession of problems has plagued Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, but investigators are now most concerned about incidents involving overheating of lithium-ion batteries.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>NHTSA Wants Hybrids, EVs to Be Noisier</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=257354&amp;f_src=designnews_section_1369</link>
			<dc:creator>Charles Murray</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[In an effort to make streets safer for pedestrians, the National Highway Traffic Administration has proposed a rule that could require engineers to add more sound to hybrids and electric vehicles.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Toyota, Audi Demo Self-Driving Technologies at CES</title>
			<link>http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=257052&amp;f_src=designnews_section_1369</link>
			<dc:creator>Charles Murray</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. and Audi AG are demonstrating active safety technologies that could one day serve as building blocks for the emergence of driverless vehicles.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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