{"id":225311,"date":"2025-11-18T01:20:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/lead-free-alternative-discovered-for-essential-electronics-component"},"modified":"2025-11-18T01:20:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:20:35","slug":"lead-free-alternative-discovered-for-essential-electronics-component","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/lead-free-alternative-discovered-for-essential-electronics-component","title":{"rendered":"Lead-free alternative discovered for essential electronics component"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lead-free-alternative-discovered-for-essential-electronics-component2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ferroelectric materials are used in infrared cameras, medical ultrasounds, computer memory and actuators that turn electric properties into mechanical properties and vice-versa. Most of these essential materials, however, contain lead and can therefore be toxic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the last 10 years, there has been a huge initiative all over the world to find <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ferroelectric+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ferroelectric materials<\/a> that do not contain lead,\u201d said Laurent Bellaiche, Distinguished Professor of physics at the University of Arkansas.<\/p>\n<p>The atoms in a ferroelectric material can have more than one <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/crystalline+structure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">crystalline structure<\/a>. Where two crystalline structures meet is called a phase boundary, and the properties that make ferroelectric materials useful are strongest at these boundaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferroelectric materials are used in infrared cameras, medical ultrasounds, computer memory and actuators that turn electric properties into mechanical properties and vice-versa. Most of these essential materials, however, contain lead and can therefore be toxic. \u201cFor the last 10 years, there has been a huge initiative all over the world to find ferroelectric materials that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225311","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=225311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}