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Why the ACEM?
The ACEM costs about $3M and is funded by the Office of Transportation Technologies in the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy branch of the Department of Energy. Its primary goal will be to support research and development of improved catalysts for reduction of emissions from trucks and automobiles. Since microconstituents of catalysts are often dispersed to the atomic level (platinum atoms on alumina particles, for example), sub-angstrom resolution is necessary to fully characterize catalyst structure. The ACEM will also be available for research on other materials through the HTML national user program.
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