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Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday.
Topics covered:
- Spray-on Rechargeable Batteries Could Store Energy Anywhere
- Parents Less Likely to Develop Colds
- Jekyll and Hyde Bacteria Helps or Kills, Depending On Chance
- Climate change shrinking plants
- Global Warming Favors Proliferation of Toxic Cyanobacteria

(a) Simplified view of a conventional Li-ion battery, a multilayer device assembled by tightly wound ‘jellyroll’ sandwich of anode-separator-cathode layers. (b) Direct fabrication of Li-ion battery on the surface of interest by sequentially spraying component paints stencil masks tailored to desired geometry and surface.
Source: Paintable Battery, published in Nature, 28 June 2012.
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