{"id":122470,"date":"2021-05-10T10:23:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T17:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/worlds-first-fully-recyclable-electronic-transistor-produced-by-3d-printers-at-duke-university"},"modified":"2021-05-10T10:23:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T17:23:14","slug":"worlds-first-fully-recyclable-electronic-transistor-produced-by-3d-printers-at-duke-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/worlds-first-fully-recyclable-electronic-transistor-produced-by-3d-printers-at-duke-university","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s First Fully-Recyclable Electronic Transistor Produced By 3D Printers at Duke University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-fully-recyclable-electronic-transistor-produced-by-3d-printers-at-duke-university3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers at Duke University have developed the world\u2019s first fully recyclable printed electronics. Their recycling process recovers nearly 100% of the materials used\u2014and preserves most of their performance capabilities for reuse.<\/p>\n<p>By demonstrating a crucial and relatively complex computer component\u2014the transistor\u2014created with three carbon-based inks, the researchers hope to inspire a new generation of recyclable electronics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSilicon-based computer components are probably never going away, and we don\u2019t expect easily recyclable electronics like ours to replace the technology and devices that are already widely used,\u201d said Aaron Franklin, the Addy Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering <a href=\"https:\/\/pratt.duke.edu\/about\/news\/recyclable-printed-electronics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at Duke<\/a>. \u201cBut we hope that by creating new, fully recyclable, easily printed electronics and showing what they can do, that they might become widely used in future applications.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at Duke University have developed the world\u2019s first fully recyclable printed electronics. Their recycling process recovers nearly 100% of the materials used\u2014and preserves most of their performance capabilities for reuse. By demonstrating a crucial and relatively complex computer component\u2014the transistor\u2014created with three carbon-based inks, the researchers hope to inspire a new generation of recyclable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}