Circuit Boards

  • Vanderbilt University

    Tiny circuit boards stay operational in warm water, dissolve when cooled

    Building transient electronics is usually about doing something to make them stop working: blast them with light, soak them with acid, dunk them in water. Professor Leon Bellan’s idea is to dissolve them with neglect: Stop applying heat, and they come apart. Using silver nanowires embedded in a polymer that… Read More

    Jun. 26, 2017