{"id":200557,"date":"2024-12-01T17:27:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/inspired-by-nature-leaftronics-pave-way-for-biodegradable-electronics"},"modified":"2024-12-01T17:27:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:27:15","slug":"inspired-by-nature-leaftronics-pave-way-for-biodegradable-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/inspired-by-nature-leaftronics-pave-way-for-biodegradable-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Inspired by nature: Leaftronics pave way for biodegradable electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inspired-by-nature-leaftronics-pave-way-for-biodegradable-electronics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team headed by Prof. Karl Leo at TUD Dresden University of Technology have developed an innovative, nature-inspired solution that could revolutionize the electronics industry: \u201cLeaftronics.\u201d This innovative approach leverages the natural structure of leaves to create biodegradable electronic substrates with enhanced properties and offers a sustainable, efficient, and scalable solution to the global-waste problem. These findings have now been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adq3276\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p>Electronic devices, from toys to smartphones, consist of circuits. Specific substrates are used to manufacture these circuits. In commercial electronics, these are printed circuit boards (PCBs) made of glass fiber-reinforced epoxy resin.<\/p>\n<p>Most of these materials are not recyclable, let alone biodegradable. Given the sheer volume of electronic waste of more than 60 million tons per year (of which over 75% is not collected worldwide), there is an urgent need for sustainable alternatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team headed by Prof. Karl Leo at TUD Dresden University of Technology have developed an innovative, nature-inspired solution that could revolutionize the electronics industry: \u201cLeaftronics.\u201d This innovative approach leverages the natural structure of leaves to create biodegradable electronic substrates with enhanced properties and offers a sustainable, efficient, and scalable solution to the global-waste [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200557","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}