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Self Healing Electronic Circuit System – University Of Illinois
Baku, December 24 (AZERTAC). When the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012, Global Environment will be endangered. However it also faces the danger through e-waste which on many occasions goes unnoticed until we find its `heap`. Such a place then only becomes a place of hot debate and no action is taken on e-waste in most of the cases. Over the years environmentalists and scientists have been active on issues to dispose the electronic garbage. It is the first time that a group of scientists has come up with a solution on preventing it.
Illinois researchers have taken cue from the self healing technology for steels and concrete structures - a topic of interest for many. There have been attempts of making self healing sensors. This time US scientists have developed a technology to make the electronic circuits self healing. It was necessary because electronic circuitry mostly contains smaller components like IC circuits, batteries etc which can get damaged easily. Furthermore, the exact location where the component encountered damage is almost impossible to find. Well, we can replace the smaller components but what about massive systems like aircrafts and spacecrafts which have large arrays of wiring connections? Even repairing it would cause much pain.