科学家利用蘑菇制造出可生物降解的计算机芯片

New research has shown that mushroom skins could provide a biodegradable alternative to some plastics used in batteries and computer chips, making them easier to recycle. All electronic circuits, which consist of conducting metals, need to sit in an insulating and cooling base called a substrate. In almost every computing chip, this substrate is made from unrecyclable plastic polymers, which are often thrown away at the end of a chip's life.

新的研究表明，蘑菇皮可以作为电池和计算机芯片中使用的一些塑料的可生物降解的替代物，使它们更容易被回收。所有的电子电路，由导电金属组成，需要放在一个被称为基板的绝缘和冷却基底中。在几乎所有的计算芯片中，这种基底是由不可回收的塑料聚合物制成的，在芯片的使用寿命结束时往往被扔掉。