'The results are groundbreaking.'
major polluter
, not to mention an increasingly difficult issue to combat. Excitingly, however, a team of Austrian scientists are working on a creative new solution to solve at least part of the e-waste puzzle: they're making biodegradable substrates for electronics out of mushroom skins., these materials — dubbed "MycelioTronics — are showing some incredible promise as a possible replacement for traditionally plastic printed circuit boards, among other applications.
"The substrate itself is the most difficult [part] to recycle," Martin Kaltenbrunner, a researcher at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria and one of the scientists on this project,That's where the mushrooms come in, originating in a happy lab accident: while researching whether it was possible to make insulation for homes out of mushroom skin, the scientists discovered that the mycelium-covering skins of reishi mushrooms in particular were surprisingly "robust,...
"The prototypes produced are impressive," Andrew Adamatzky, a computer scientist at the University of the West of England, told
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