Doping graphene and the hedonic benefits of garlic

Graphene is a fascinating material with the potential to help solve the world’s energy needs. Can you improve graphene with poop?

Garlic is a superfood packed with flavor and health benefits. Yes, garlic causes bad breath, but could it actually improve your body odor?

In this remunerative episode, Lu and Tirth discuss the electrocatalytic effects of doping graphene with guano and whether eating garlic makes men smell more desirable to women.

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
2:16 Is this SPAM?
11:43 Graphene study
22:10 Garlic study
34:34 What did you learn today, outro

Article links:

Wang et al., 2020. Will Any Crap We Put into Graphene Increase Its Electrocatalytic Effect? ACS Nano. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.9b00184
Fialova et al., 2016. Consumption of garlic positively affects hedonic perception of axillary body odour. Appetite. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666315300787

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