{"id":237474,"date":"2026-05-20T05:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/biodegradable-sensors-attached-to-plants-detect-pesticides-in-3-minutes"},"modified":"2026-05-20T05:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:11:24","slug":"biodegradable-sensors-attached-to-plants-detect-pesticides-in-3-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/biodegradable-sensors-attached-to-plants-detect-pesticides-in-3-minutes","title":{"rendered":"Biodegradable sensors attached to plants detect pesticides in 3 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biodegradable-sensors-attached-to-plants-detect-pesticides-in-3-minutes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the S\u00e3o Carlos Institute of Physics at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (IFSC-USP) in Brazil, led by Paulo Augusto Raymundo-Pereira, have created biodegradable, \u201cwearable\u201d sensors for plants to monitor their health, including the presence of pesticides. The sensors are made from carbon ink and are screen-printed onto transparent cellulose acetate bioplastics.<\/p>\n<p>The study was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2590137026000233\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X<\/i>. The World Economic Forum selected wearable sensor engineering as one of the top ten emerging technologies of 2023 for its potential to improve plant health and increase agricultural productivity.<\/p>\n<p>However, most wearable devices today are made from nonrenewable plastic polymers derived from petroleum and have poor adhesion to uneven, wavy, and curved surfaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the S\u00e3o Carlos Institute of Physics at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (IFSC-USP) in Brazil, led by Paulo Augusto Raymundo-Pereira, have created biodegradable, \u201cwearable\u201d sensors for plants to monitor their health, including the presence of pesticides. The sensors are made from carbon ink and are screen-printed onto transparent cellulose acetate bioplastics. The study [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1506,1495,17,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-food","category-health","category-sustainability","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237474","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=237474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}