The goal is to develop high-performance green electronics using sustainable materials and processes and demonstrate its application in digital agriculture sector. Digital agriculture as end-use is specifically used here because it provides unique opportunity to evaluate the use of ICT in an impactful real-life application, while providing the necessary testbed to evaluate the degradability of the proposed solution.
In the project fully degradable/compostable devices (multisensory patch, energy storage, energy harvesting) are investigated. Energy harvesting module is based on organic photovoltaics and as energy storage device 3D printed biodegradable supercapacitors are used . TAU´s role is especially in the energy storage research.
The 3D printed supercapacitor is developed using multimaterial processing. The device will be smaller, lighter and environmentally friendly. Thus we introduce 3D printed supercapacitor based on biodegradable and non-toxic materials. We investigate activated carbon based further tailored electrodes, biobased separators, and gel-electrolytes using 5-axis motion control and different 3D printing technologies (filament, dispensing, and inkjet, aerosol).
