{"id":60990,"date":"2019-02-28T07:20:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T06:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=60990"},"modified":"2019-02-25T12:58:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T11:58:22","slug":"collaboration-sparks-sustainable-electronics-manufacturing-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/collaboration-sparks-sustainable-electronics-manufacturing-breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaboration sparks sustainable electronics manufacturing breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SFU Mechatronic Systems Engineering professor Woo Soo Kim is collaborating with Swiss researchers to develop an eco-friendly 3D printable solution for producing wireless Internet-of-Things sensors. The research team is using a wood-derived cellulose material to replace the plastics and polymeric materials currently used in electronics.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Simon Fraser University and Swiss researchers are developing an eco-friendly, 3D printable solution for producing\u00a0wireless Internet-of-Things (IoT) sensors\u00a0that can be used and disposed of without contaminating the environment. Their research has been published as the\u00a0cover story\u00a0in the\u00a0February issue of the journal\u00a0Advanced Electronic Materials.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

SFU professor Woo Soo Kim is leading the research team’s discovery involving the use of a\u00a0wood-derived cellulose material to replace the plastics and polymeric materials currently used in electronics.<\/p>\n

Additionally, 3D printing can give flexibility to add or embed functions onto 3D shapes or textiles, creating greater functionality.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur eco-friendly 3D printed cellulose sensors can wirelessly transmit data during their life, and then can be disposed without concern of environmental contamination,\u201d says Kim, a professor in the School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering. The SFU research is being carried out at PowerTech Labs in Surrey, which houses several state-of-the-art\u00a03D\u00a0printers used to advance the research.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis development will help to advance green electronics. For example, the waste from printed circuit boards is a hazardous source of contamination to the environment. If we are able to change the plastics in PCB to cellulose\u00a0composite\u00a0materials, recycling of metal components on the board could be collected in a much easier way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kim\u2019s research\u00a0program\u00a0spans two international\u00a0collaborative projects, including the latest focusing on the eco-friendly cellulose material-based chemical sensors\u00a0with collaborators from the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science.<\/p>\n

He\u00a0is also collaborating with a team of\u00a0South\u00a0Korean researchers\u00a0from\u00a0the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology\u2019s (DGIST)\u2019s department of Robotics Engineering, and PROTEM Co Inc,\u00a0a technology-based company, for the development of printable conductive ink materials.<\/p>\n

In this second project, researchers have\u00a0developed a new breakthrough in the embossing process technology, one that can freely imprint fine circuit patterns on flexible polymer substrate, a necessary component of electronic products.<\/p>\n

Embossing technology is applied for the mass imprinting of precise patterns at a low unit cost. However, Kim says it can only imprint circuit patterns that are imprinted beforehand on the pattern stamp, and the entire, costly stamp must be changed to put in different patterns.<\/p>\n

The team succeeded in developing a precise location control system that can imprint patterns directly resulting in a new process technology. The result will have widespread implications for use in semiconductor processes, wearable devices and the display industry.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0http:\/\/at.sfu.ca\/SFqSxR<\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier this year Kim was selected as a\u00a0Brain Pool Fellow\u00a0by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea.<\/p>\n

An\u00a0expert in 3D printed electronics who heads\u00a0SFU\u2019s Additive Manufacturing Laboratory, he spent six months collaborating with researchers at Seoul National University to advance fabrication of thin film transistors using 3D printing technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Simon Fraser University and Swiss researchers are developing an eco-friendly, 3D printable solution for producing\u00a0wireless Internet-of-Things (IoT) sensors\u00a0that can be used and disposed of without contaminating the environment. Their research has been published as the\u00a0cover story\u00a0in the\u00a0February issue of the journal\u00a0Advanced Electronic Materials.\u00a0 SFU professor Woo Soo Kim is leading the research team’s discovery involving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[10588,6162],"supplier":[15476],"class_list":["post-60990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-3dprinting","tag-cellulose","supplier-simon-fraser-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60990"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=60990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}