Sustainable Future Wearable Devices Through Entirely Recyclable Organic Electronics

The organic electronic waste produced during the synthesis and disposal of organic electronics is becoming an unavoidable problem for the environment, as a result of the growing interest and efforts being put into developing organic electronics for future technologies such as wearable electronics. Although organic e-waste may pose a risk of genotoxicity and cytotoxicity to both the natural environment and humans, most efforts to reduce the amount of e-waste have concentrated on recycling metallic components. In this study, we present a recyclable organic flexible (ROF) electronic device that may be constructed without the need for spin-coating by employing selective dissolution and closed-loop recycling of the whole process of material recapturing and reusing. Both the ROF electrode and the electronic device maintained their reliable electrical characteristics after being subjected to mechanical bending and having been recycled five times. In addition, ROF transistors and logic gates were manufactured with organic semiconductors and dielectrics, and recycled devices exhibited no significant degradation in performance. In the end, we were successful in creating a sustainable device cycle by rebuilding a variety of ROF electronics solely utilizing components recycled from a variety of working devices. In this work, ROF electronics reveal a potentially fruitful technique for a sustainable system for the future development of wearable electrons.