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Stavrinidou E, Gabrielsson R, Gomez E, et al. Electronic plants. Sci Adv. 2015;1(10):e1501136doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1501136.
Stavrinidou, E., Gabrielsson, R., Gomez, E., Crispin, X., Nilsson, O., Simon, D. T., & Berggren, M. (2015). Electronic plants. Science advances, 1(10), e1501136. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501136
Stavrinidou, Eleni, et al. "Electronic plants." Science advances vol. 1,10 (2015): e1501136. doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501136
Stavrinidou E, Gabrielsson R, Gomez E, Crispin X, Nilsson O, Simon DT, Berggren M. Electronic plants. Sci Adv. 2015 Nov 20;1(10):e1501136. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1501136. eCollection 2015 Nov. PMID: 26702448; PMCID: PMC4681328.
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Sci Adv. 2015 Nov 20;1(10):e1501136. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1501136. eCollection 2015 Nov.

Electronic plants.

Science advances

Eleni Stavrinidou, Roger Gabrielsson, Eliot Gomez, Xavier Crispin, Ove Nilsson, Daniel T Simon, Magnus Berggren

Affiliations

  1. Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, SE-601 74 Norrköping, Sweden.
  2. Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden.

PMID: 26702448 PMCID: PMC4681328 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501136

Abstract

The roots, stems, leaves, and vascular circuitry of higher plants are responsible for conveying the chemical signals that regulate growth and functions. From a certain perspective, these features are analogous to the contacts, interconnections, devices, and wires of discrete and integrated electronic circuits. Although many attempts have been made to augment plant function with electroactive materials, plants' "circuitry" has never been directly merged with electronics. We report analog and digital organic electronic circuits and devices manufactured in living plants. The four key components of a circuit have been achieved using the xylem, leaves, veins, and signals of the plant as the template and integral part of the circuit elements and functions. With integrated and distributed electronics in plants, one can envisage a range of applications including precision recording and regulation of physiology, energy harvesting from photosynthesis, and alternatives to genetic modification for plant optimization.

Keywords: conducting polymers; organic bioelectronics; plants

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