{"id":215430,"date":"2025-06-05T01:23:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T06:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/laser-induced-graphene-enables-greener-flexible-hybrid-circuit-manufacturing"},"modified":"2025-06-05T01:23:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T06:23:50","slug":"laser-induced-graphene-enables-greener-flexible-hybrid-circuit-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/laser-induced-graphene-enables-greener-flexible-hybrid-circuit-manufacturing","title":{"rendered":"Laser-induced graphene enables greener, flexible hybrid circuit manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laser-induced-graphene-enables-greener-flexible-hybrid-circuit-manufacturing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boise State University researchers have unveiled a cutting-edge approach to manufacturing flexible hybrid circuits\u2014reducing costs, waste, and environmental impact. Their work leverages the properties of laser-induced graphene and was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/admt.202401901\" target=\"_blank\">featured<\/a> on the cover of Advanced Materials Technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Laser-induced graphene uses a single-step laser manufacturing process that converts carbon-rich materials into a 3-dimensional conductive and porous structure with some regions of atomically thin graphene. This technique is scalable, cost-effective, and patternable, making it ideal for applications in electronics, sensing, and energy storage.<\/p>\n<p>In this work, the researchers used palladium (Pd) nanoparticles embedded in a polymer matrix to form Pd functionalized laser-induced graphene. These Pd nanoparticles act as seed crystals for the electroless deposition of copper on the LIG scaffold, thus forming copper interconnects for flexible printed circuit boards (f-PCBs) through a laser-enabled additive manufacturing process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boise State University researchers have unveiled a cutting-edge approach to manufacturing flexible hybrid circuits\u2014reducing costs, waste, and environmental impact. Their work leverages the properties of laser-induced graphene and was recently featured on the cover of Advanced Materials Technologies. Laser-induced graphene uses a single-step laser manufacturing process that converts carbon-rich materials into a 3-dimensional conductive and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215430","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=215430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}