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...batteries are not only environmentally friendly but they're also cheap. Happonen says he will be able to sell his SoftBatterys for about a penny each once he hits mass production. Today's button batteries sell in bulk for about 20? each. Because the 0.4-mm-thin SoftBattery is made from paper, Enfucell can make sheets of the stuff and size them to specific applications. An average size would be about...
Enfucell, based outside Helsinki, builds batteries out of paper. Its SoftBattery works much the same way as ordinary "button" batteries (like the one in your watch) and "finger" batteries (think AA). Ions travel from an anode, pass through a solution called an electrolyte to a cathode and emerge as an electrical charge. Instead of running ions through metal casings full of toxic and corrosive substances like lithium and alkaline, Enfucell uses a thin paper sheet as a conduit. It pastes one side with zinc and the other side with manganese dioxide. Ions flow through an electrolyte solution of water...
...adorned marketing brochures. Another market: makers of cosmetic and medical patches. Happonen notes that battery-powered antiwrinkle and stop-smoking patches are more effective than those without a power boost. With a nicotine patch, "in the morning when you need a bigger dose of nicotine, you push a button," he says...
Here we go again.Things are going pretty well, I thought. Sure, not as well as they could, but it’s not time to hit the “panic-button.” We’re still in this thing, and our biggest problems go far beyond the guy under center.Unfortunately for me, I’m not the coach of the Denver Broncos—Mike Shanahan is.He’s the coach of a Denver team that sits at 7-4, tied for second in the AFC West and still poised to grab...
...going in last year,” Ogunwole said. “O’Connor had one pretty tough match, a long match, but he concentrated and got the victory.” Also in the tournament, junior Bobby Latessa (157 pounds) took No. 4, edging junior Matt Button for the third-place match. Freshman Frankie Colletta (165 pounds) won his first three matches and placed No. 5. The next scheduled match for Harvard will come on Dec. 1-2 at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational. —TONY D. QIAN