{"id":234848,"date":"2026-04-09T02:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/leather-gets-a-power-upgrade-with-laser-written-microsupercapacitors"},"modified":"2026-04-09T02:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:28:24","slug":"leather-gets-a-power-upgrade-with-laser-written-microsupercapacitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/leather-gets-a-power-upgrade-with-laser-written-microsupercapacitors","title":{"rendered":"Leather gets a power upgrade with laser-written microsupercapacitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/leather-gets-a-power-upgrade-with-laser-written-microsupercapacitors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a simple and eco-friendly way to use a laser to turn natural leather into flexible and wearable energy devices. The new approach could lay the groundwork for more sustainable wearable electronics. In a paper in <i>Optics Letters<\/i>, the researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/opg.optica.org\/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-51-8-2132\" target=\"_blank\">demonstrate<\/a> the new technique by creating microsupercapacitors on leather in various patterns, including a tiger, dragon and rabbit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing a laser, we directly write conductive patterns onto vegetable-tanned leather to create microsupercapacitors that can store energy and help smooth electrical signals so that wearable electronics run more reliably,\u201d said the research team leader Dong-Dong Han from Jilin University in China.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike conventional devices that rely on synthetic materials and complex, chemical-heavy processes, our approach uses a natural, skin-friendly material and a one-step fabrication method. The microsupercapacitors are well-suited for flexible and comfortable wearable electronics because they are built on soft materials and can be shaped freely and integrated directly into products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a simple and eco-friendly way to use a laser to turn natural leather into flexible and wearable energy devices. The new approach could lay the groundwork for more sustainable wearable electronics. In a paper in Optics Letters, the researchers demonstrate the new technique by creating microsupercapacitors on leather in various patterns, including [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,17,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234848","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=234848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}