Sustainable Chipless RFID-Tags
- The React Team
- Feb 12
- 1 min read
Updated: Feb 20
Consider this: the retail sector alone consumes over 10 billion RFID tags each year. Composed of paper, plastic, silicon, and metal, these tags are difficult to recycle and often end up in landfills.
Researchers at the University of Glasgow, including Dr Mahmoud Wagih of REACT, have developed a sustainable alternative using inexpensive coils and a sensing material made of silicon rubber (PDMS) and carbon fibres. These compact coils, smaller than those in credit cards, absorb electromagnetic signals from a handheld reader.
Further development at the Centre aims to bring this technology closer to market-ready solutions.
This research was supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Royal Society. The findings, published in Advanced Science, have gained significant media attention as a promising low-waste alternative to RFID tags.
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