{"id":8847,"date":"2006-03-30T17:09:53","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T17:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8847"},"modified":"2006-03-30T17:09:53","modified_gmt":"2006-03-30T17:09:53","slug":"chicken-based-circuit-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8847","title":{"rendered":"Chicken-Based Circuit Boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/ehp0112-a00564f3.jpg\">No, there&#8217;s no joke in that title. We&#8217;re actually bringing you news of a new type of printed circuit board that uses the keratin fibers of chicken feathers and a soy-based epoxy to construct the PCBs. The resulting boards are not only more environmentally-friendly, they are also faster than traditional boards. <\/p>\n<p> The chicken PCBs were delveloped by Mingjiang Zhan, a student at the University of Delaware, in association with Intel and chicken giant Tyson. While the technology looks promising, it remains to be seen how environmentally-friendly full-scale manufacturing of such &#8220;green&#8221; boards might be. <\/p>\n<p> An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov\/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1247399\" target=\"new\">article<\/a> from the journal Environmental Health Perspectives offers more details.<\/p>\n<p> [Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\" target=\"new\">Treehugger<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, there&#8217;s no joke in that title. We&#8217;re actually bringing you news of a new type of printed circuit board that uses the keratin fibers of chicken feathers and a soy-based epoxy to construct the PCBs. The resulting boards are not only more environmentally-friendly, they are also faster than traditional boards. The chicken PCBs were &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8847\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chicken-Based Circuit Boards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scitech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}