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Wooden Microchips

The microchip in the image above is made almost entirely from wood! 

Created by a research team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison lead by Zhenqiang Ma and Shaoqin Gong, the technology uses cellulose nanofibrils (CNF) in its construction to offer a biodegradable alternative to the many non-renewable and potentially toxic plastic materials currently used in electronics.

The researchers worked in collaboration with the US Department of Agriculture Forest Products Laboratory, to find new materials for the support layer of electronics. Technically referred to as the substrate, this layer makes up the bulk of any microchip. All of the conductive circuits are only a tiny amount of the overall chip, being much finer than human hair. Making substrates like these from wood-based materials would mean that waste electronics could be so easy to dispose of, they could even be composted.

Cellulose nanofibrils are made in a very similar way to paper. Paper is made by breaking wood down into individual fibres, but those fibres can be broken down even further, all the way down to the scale of nanotechnology. For their prototypes, they then used epoxy resin to bind the nanofibrils together. While epoxy resin is typically a petroleum-based product, renewable alternatives for this are also becoming available.