Green Materials for Electronics

Chapter 6Paper Electronics

Martti Toivakka¹, Jouko Peltonen² and Ronald Österbacka³

¹Åbo Akademi University, Center for Functional Materials and Faculty of Science and Engineering, Laboratory of Paper Coating and Converting, Turku, Finland

²Åbo Akademi University, Center for Functional Materials and Faculty of Science and Engineering, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Turku, Finland

³Åbo Akademi University, Center for Functional Materials and Faculty of Science and Engineering, Laboratory of Physics, Turku, Finland

6.1 Introduction

Paper has been a “green material” for the transfer of information for more than 2000 years. The discovery of a lightweight and flexible, plant-based substrate that could be used to store written information must ...