As electronics like laptops, cellphones, and smartwatches become ever-more integral to our daily lives, a growing mountain of electronic waste looms on the horizon — and it’s quickly becoming too ...

They are the "heart" of every electronic device, from laptops to electric toothbrushes: printed circuit boards, also known as PCBs. These rigid boards are covered with copper traces and soldered ...

Kombucha fermentation waste becomes a renewable source of strong, compostable cellulose films that support durable flexible circuits and pressure sensors and safely degrade in soil. (Nanowerk ...

A fruit coating made from kitchen ingredients harvests electricity from humid air to power sensors while suppressing bacteria ...

A new way to make ultra-thin diamond wafers using sticky tape could help produce diamond-based electronics, which might one day be a useful alternative to silicon-based designs. Diamond has unusual ...

When the concept was first proposed, it was dismissed as being unrealizable: "It'll never work," commented one expert assessor of an application for research funding. Today, 15 years later, the ...