{"id":217750,"date":"2025-07-13T10:09:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/semiconducting-polymers-and-collagen-combine-to-create-safe-green-wearable-tech"},"modified":"2025-07-13T10:09:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:09:29","slug":"semiconducting-polymers-and-collagen-combine-to-create-safe-green-wearable-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/semiconducting-polymers-and-collagen-combine-to-create-safe-green-wearable-tech","title":{"rendered":"Semiconducting polymers and collagen combine to create safe, green wearable tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7qL1zbrAfgA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The world of wearable technology\u2014such as sensors and energy-producing devices\u2014is expanding, thanks to new research into a unique combination of materials that are flexible, safe to use on or inside the human body, and environmentally friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Simon Rondeau-Gagn\u00e9 and a team of collaborators and graduate students have used the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan to show that semiconducting polymers and collagen\u2014the main component of human skin\u2014can be combined to create <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/organic+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">organic devices<\/a> \u201cthat are more efficient, more conformable and specifically\u2026 more green as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Collagen provided both the skin-like rigidity and elasticity (or bendability) the researchers were looking for in \u201ca platform that can be integrated with something like the human body,\u201d said Rondeau-Gagn\u00e9, an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Windsor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world of wearable technology\u2014such as sensors and energy-producing devices\u2014is expanding, thanks to new research into a unique combination of materials that are flexible, safe to use on or inside the human body, and environmentally friendly. Dr. Simon Rondeau-Gagn\u00e9 and a team of collaborators and graduate students have used the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217750","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}