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This data set contains the data collected during the FNS project Green Piezo (Grant no. 179064) in association with the recent publication entitled “3D printing of customizable transient bioelectronics and sensors”. This work aims to study and demonstrate ...

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Eco-Conscious Approach to Wireless Gas Monitoring With a Hybrid Printed Passive Sensor Tag

Johanna Zikulnig, Jürgen Kosel

Addressing the environmental impact of electronic waste in biomedical sensing, an eco-conscious approach to the realization of a Chitosan-based Acetone sensor tag for wireless gas monitoring is presented. The fabrication involves inkjet printing of silver ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Degradable and Printed Microstrip Line for Chipless Temperature and Humidity Sensing

Danick Briand, James Alec Pierce Bourely, Jaemin Kim, Xavier Aeby, Oleksandr Vorobyov

Research on chipless and passive architectures for environmental sensing is generating high interest because they do not require any semiconductor components or batteries to operate, thus resulting in an eco-friendlier footprint. This study demonstrates a ...

2024

A Sustainable Printed Chitosan-Based Sensor for Acetone Detection

Sandro Carrara, Johanna Zikulnig

Biomedical sensing applications, including breath analysis, contribute to increasing the amount of electronic waste, as the sensors are frequently disposed, due to hygienic considerations. Consequently, the development of sustainable sensor solutions is cr ...

IEEE2023

Addressing the challenges of homogeneity, quality control and waste handling in soil bio-cementation: A large-scale experiment

Lyesse Laloui, Dimitrios Terzis, Ray Harran

In an attempt to go beyond the conventional laboratory experiments widely reported in literature around the emerging technique of soil bio-cementation, this work addresses key challenges related to its large-scale application. Precisely, a state-of-the-art ...

JAPANESE GEOTECHNICAL SOC2023

Cultural healing through computational crisis: disruption as a catalyst for alternate technologies

Our presentation will take the form of an interactive dialogue centred around the ramifications of electronic devices: tackled both from our Canadian (Cyrus Khalatbari) and Ghanaian (Akwasi Afrane) arts and design perspectives. Developed moreover as a conv ...

2023

Bridging Science, Technology & Society (STS), electronic waste and research through design: the case of the Agbogbloshie landfill, Ghana

This contribution situates the potential of combining Science, Technology & Society (STS) with critical and sustainable design methodologies in order to enhance media literacy in contexts of technological inequalities and electronic waste in Ghana. Gravita ...

2023

Dataset for 'Printed ecoresorbable temperature sensors for environmental monitoring'

Danick Briand, Nicolas Francis Fumeaux, James Alec Pierce Bourely, Melissa Kossairi

This data set contains the data collected during the FNS project Green Piezo (Grant no. 179064) in association with the recent publication entitled “Printed ecoresorbable temperature sensors for environmental monitoring”. This work aims to study the effect ...

EPFL Infoscience2023

A customized MOF-polymer composite for rapid gold extraction from water matrices

Wendy Lee Queen, Daniel Teav Sun, Shuliang Yang, Jun Li, Li Peng, Olga Syzgantseva

With the fast-growing accumulation of electronic waste and rising demand for rare metals, it is compelling to develop technologies that can promotionally recover targeted metals, like gold, from waste, a process referred to as urban mining. Thus, there is ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2023

Arts and design strategies to address climate emergency and action: the case of electronic waste in Accra, Ghana

This contribution situates the role of public media art, critical making and reappropriation techniques as sociopolitical vehicles for enhancing climate actions and awareness in contexts of technological inequalities and electronic waste in Accra, Ghana. O ...

2023

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