We all know that we are supposed to properly dispose of our laptop and computer batteries. We also know that we don't do that. Unlike most of our trash, electronic waste isn't even close to ...

(Nanowerk News) Under the direction of the Fraunhofer FEP, an in-house Fraunhofer project for development of biodegradable electronics was begun last year. The Fraunhofer Institutes ENAS, IBMT, ISC, ...

PHOENIX — Normally, patients who need pacemakers or certain types of monitors implanted in the body go through two surgeries: one to put it inside the body and the other to remove it. That last ...

Americans, on average, replace their mobile phones every 22 months, junking more than 150 million phones a year in the process. Now researchers are on the path to creating biodegradable electronics by ...

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 ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — 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 ...

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 ...

Electronic waste is a really, really big problem. This year, a United Nations Environment Program report expected almost 50 million tons of electronic waste to be dumped, which is a 20% jump from 2015 ...