Feathers in PCs No Birdbrain Idea

by Katie Dean Wired News, 22 Feb 2005 Researchers are turning to an unlikely source to develop environmentally friendly computer components: the barnyard. Richard Wool, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Delaware, wants to recycle discarded chicken feathers and use them to manufacture circuit boards, replacing petroleum-based components with keratin-based composites. Computer circuit boards are only one of the many applications researchers envision for this material. Read the article