Transient Electronics: Dissolvable Metals for Transient Electronics (Adv. Funct. Mater. 5/2014)

Materials and Wireless Microfluidic Systems for Electronics Capable of Chemical Dissolution on Demand (Adv. Funct. Mater. 92015)

Moisture-triggered physically transient electronics

Physically transient electronics, a form of electronics that can physically disappear in a controllable manner, is very promising for emerging applications. Most of the transient processes reported so far only occur in aqueous solutions or biofluids, offering limited control over the triggering and degradation processes. We report novel moisture-triggered physically transient electronics, which...

Metastable polymer substrate for transient electronics

Transient electronics are designed to operate for programmed life times and then degrade leaving little to no trace behind. The initial work on transient electronics has been focused on biomedical applications in which the electronics are implanted, but eventually degrade and resorb into the body after the treatment is complete [1]. Biomedical transient electronics typically use a water soluble...

A physically transient form of silicon electronics.

A remarkable feature of modern silicon electronics is its ability to remain physically invariant, almost indefinitely for practical purposes. Although this characteristic is a hallmark of applications of integrated circuits that exist today, there might be opportunities for systems that offer the opposite behavior, such as implantable devices that function for medically useful time frames but t...

Fully Biodegradable Microsupercapacitor for Power Storage in Transient Electronics

DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201700157 active and passive materials are important in this context. Here, the hardware dissolves completely into ground water or biofluids after stable operation for a controlled duration. Applications include not only “green” electronics, but also temporary biomedical implants, secure data systems, and environmental monitors.[5–7] Previous demonstrations of such classes of ...