{"id":163822,"date":"2023-05-13T18:23:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T23:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/scientists-just-unveiled-the-worlds-first-wooden-electrical-transistor"},"modified":"2023-05-13T18:23:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T23:23:32","slug":"scientists-just-unveiled-the-worlds-first-wooden-electrical-transistor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/scientists-just-unveiled-the-worlds-first-wooden-electrical-transistor","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Unveiled The World\u2019s First Wooden Electrical Transistor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-unveiled-the-worlds-first-wooden-electrical-transistor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wood is good for a lot of things. Building <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-decrepit-old-well-is-the-world-s-oldest-known-wooden-structure\">boxes<\/a>, boats, and bookcases, for instance. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/neanderthal-wooden-tools-iberian-peninsula-spain-90-000-years-old\">Making tools<\/a>, or campfires. Feeding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/termites-love-global-warming-so-much-that-they-may-make-it-worse-says-study\">termites<\/a>. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/satellite-images-reveal-beavers-are-transforming-the-arctic-like-wildfire\">beavers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll note powering functional electrical appliances isn\u2019t among them.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Link\u00f6ping University and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden clearly never paid much attention to lists of things wood is bad at, so they went ahead and made the world\u2019s first wooden transistor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wood is good for a lot of things. Building boxes, boats, and bookcases, for instance. Making tools, or campfires. Feeding termites. And beavers. You\u2019ll note powering functional electrical appliances isn\u2019t among them. Researchers at Link\u00f6ping University and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden clearly never paid much attention to lists of things wood [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163822","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}