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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...