Biodegradable Electronics Could Lessen Environmental Impact of Digital Devices

Yale Environment 360: A team of U.S. scientists says it has developed a class of biodegradable electronics technology that could be utilized for a wide range of products -- from consumer devices to medical implants -- and that University of Illinois and Tufts University An integrated circuit dissolves in water. ultimately would dissolve completely, leaving no environmental impacts. Drawing on techniques that enable the production of systems using ultrathin sheets of silicon that dissolve in liquids, the so-called "transient...

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