{"id":142919,"date":"2022-07-26T20:27:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T01:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/researchers-recycle-cds-into-flexible-biosensors"},"modified":"2022-07-26T20:27:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T01:27:58","slug":"researchers-recycle-cds-into-flexible-biosensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/researchers-recycle-cds-into-flexible-biosensors","title":{"rendered":"Researchers recycle CDs into flexible biosensors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-recycle-cds-into-flexible-biosensors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York offers a second life for CDs: Turn them into flexible biosensors that are inexpensive and easy to manufacture.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published this month in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, Matthew Brown, Ph.D. \u201822, and Assistant Professor Ahyeon Koh from the Department of Biomedical Engineering show how a gold CD\u2019s thin metallic layer can be separated from the rigid plastic and fashioned into sensors to monitor <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electrical+activity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical activity<\/a> in human hearts and muscles as well as lactate, glucose, pH and oxygen levels. The sensors can communicate with a smartphone via Bluetooth.<\/p>\n<p>The fabrication is completed in 20 to 30 minutes without releasing toxic chemicals or needing expensive equipment, and it costs about $1.50 per device. According to the paper, \u201cthis sustainable approach for upcycling <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electronic+waste\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electronic waste<\/a> provides an advantageous research-based <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/waste+stream\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">waste stream<\/a> that does not require cutting-edge microfabrication facilities, expensive materials or high-caliber engineering skills.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York offers a second life for CDs: Turn them into flexible biosensors that are inexpensive and easy to manufacture. In a paper published this month in Nature Communications, Matthew Brown, Ph.D. \u201822, and Assistant Professor Ahyeon Koh from the Department of Biomedical Engineering show how a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142919","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}