transient devices

Have flexible, transient and biodegradable electronics finally arrived?

Pitt researchers find that nanotube interactions with silk fibroins hold the key to developing flexible,

A different take on remotely vaporizing electronics

Engineers from Cornell and Honeywell Aerospace have demonstrated a new method for remotely vaporizing electronics

Transient electronics get very real

Building transient electronics is usually about doing something to make them stop working: blast them

A quick-destructing battery to power ‘transient’ devices

Self-destructing electronic devices could keep military secrets out of enemy hands. Or they could save

Iowa State's Reza Montazami examines a degradable antenna capable of data transmission. Photo by Bob Elbert.
Iowa State materials scientist developing materials and electronics that dissolve when triggered

A medical device, once its job is done, could harmlessly melt away inside a person’s

New ‘transient electronics’ disappear when no longer needed

Scientists today described key advances toward practical uses of a new genre of tiny, biocompatible