Biodegradable electronics allow for medical devices—such as drug delivery systems, pacemakers or neural implants—to safely degrade into materials that are absorbed by the body after they are no longer ...

A team from The College of Engineering at Seoul National University has developed a biodegradable electronic tent technology that enables brain disease diagnosis using a needle. The technology, ...

Building on advancements in foldable ultra-thin flexible circuits, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Tufts University have developed electronics that almost completely ...

Sensors that can be easily and safely introduced in the brain could have important medical applications and could also contribute to the development of brain-interfacing devices. While significant ...

Wood isn’t usually very good at conducting electricity, but now scientists have created the first functional wooden transistor. It’s not the best, and it requires some processing, but it does work and ...

This crisis is largely driven by the widespread use of petroleum-based materials in electronics, which are durable but non-degradable, contributing to long-term pollution and resource depletion. To ...

Photograph of the biodegradable arm sleeve npj Flexible Electronics (2025) This is important because: Electronic waste is a global crisis, with over 50 million metric tons generated annually, much of ...

Forward-looking: In their search for a sustainable alternative to polymer-based circuit boards, researchers have found a fungal structure that could solve the problem with a completely natural and ...

Old electronics are tricky to recycle, meaning they clog up landfills while locking valuable metals away. Now scientists have demonstrated printed circuits that can be degraded on demand, returning ...