{"id":125151,"date":"2021-07-19T23:23:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T06:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/cheap-sustainable-readily-available-plasma-tech-could-replace-rare-iridium"},"modified":"2021-07-19T23:23:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T06:23:22","slug":"cheap-sustainable-readily-available-plasma-tech-could-replace-rare-iridium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/cheap-sustainable-readily-available-plasma-tech-could-replace-rare-iridium","title":{"rendered":"Cheap, sustainable, readily available plasma tech could replace rare iridium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cheap-sustainable-readily-available-plasma-tech-could-replace-rare-iridium.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team led by a researcher from the University of Sydney has developed a low-cost, sustainable, and readily available technology that can dim the screens of electronic devices, anti-reflection automobile mirrors, and smart architectural windows at a fraction of the cost of current technology.<\/p>\n<p>It would replace one of the world\u2019s scarcest\u2014yet highly ubiquitous in use\u2014modern materials: indium. A rare chemical element, that it is widely used in devices such as smartphones and computers, windscreen glass and self-dimming windows.<\/p>\n<p>Although small amounts are used to manufacture smart <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/device\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">device<\/a> screens, indium is expensive as it is hard to source; it naturally occurs only in small deposits. Industrial indium is often made as a byproduct of zinc mining, which means a shortage could occur if demand for optoelectronic devices\u2014such as LCDs and touch panels\u2014ramps up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team led by a researcher from the University of Sydney has developed a low-cost, sustainable, and readily available technology that can dim the screens of electronic devices, anti-reflection automobile mirrors, and smart architectural windows at a fraction of the cost of current technology. It would replace one of the world\u2019s scarcest\u2014yet highly ubiquitous in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,1512,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125151","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}