{"id":163044,"date":"2023-04-29T19:23:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T00:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/timber-the-worlds-first-wooden-transistor"},"modified":"2023-04-29T19:23:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T00:23:50","slug":"timber-the-worlds-first-wooden-transistor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/timber-the-worlds-first-wooden-transistor","title":{"rendered":"Timber! The World\u2019s First Wooden Transistor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/timber-the-worlds-first-wooden-transistor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very curiosity-driven,\u201d says Isak Engquist, a professor at Link\u00f6ping University who led the effort. \u201cWe thought: \u2018Can we do it? Let\u2019s do it, let\u2019s put it out there to the scientific community and hope that someone else has something where they see these could actually be of use in reality.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have colleagues who are at the forefront in a field we call electronic plants. \u2026 We have worked with dead woods for this project, but the next step might be to integrate it also into living plants.\u201d \u2014Isak Engquist, Link\u00f6ping University.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the wooden transistor still awaits its killer app, the idea to build <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutcircuits.com\/news\/knock-on-wood-researchers-turn-to-wood-surprising-electronic-substrate\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">wood-based electronics<\/a> is not as crazy as it sounds. A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/adma.202006207\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">review<\/a> of wood-based materials reads, \u201cAround 300 million years of tree evolution has yielded over 60,000 woody species, each of which is an engineering masterpiece of nature.\u201d Wood has great structural stability while being highly porous and efficiently transporting water and nutrients. The researchers leveraged these properties to create conducting channels inside the wood\u2019s pores and electrochemically modulate their conductivity with the help of a penetrating electrolyte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt was very curiosity-driven,\u201d says Isak Engquist, a professor at Link\u00f6ping University who led the effort. \u201cWe thought: \u2018Can we do it? Let\u2019s do it, let\u2019s put it out there to the scientific community and hope that someone else has something where they see these could actually be of use in reality.\u2019\u201d \u201cI have colleagues [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163044","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}