Green Materials for Electronics

Chapter 5Biocompatible Materials for Transient Electronics

Suk-Won Hwang¹ and John A. Rogers²

¹Korea University, KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, 145 Anam-Ro, Seongbuk-Gu, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea

²University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, 1304 W. Green St., Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

5.1 Introduction

Transient electronics can be broadly defined as a new class of technology whose defining characteristic is the ability to physically disappear, in whole or in part, at some programmed rate or triggered time, via any of a range of different possible mechanisms including hydrolysis, dissolution, corrosion, de-polymerization, ...