Ok yikes.
Clever people have created electronic transistors from wood.
Here's an awesome summary from the article:
Wood has great structural stability while being highly porous and able to efficiently transport water and nutrients. The researchers leveraged these properties to create conducting channels inside the wood’s pores and electrochemically modulate their conductivity with the help of a penetrating electrolyte.
It's a relatively low-powered and bulky unit compared to a traditional transistor (pics in the article), and really is just a spark of curiosity at the moment. Most applications are theoretical, but exciting for the biosensing and bioelectronics spaces.
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