(ENVIRO) Greening Your Flat Screens With Israeli Lab-Grown Organic LEDs

"Electronic products pollute our environment with a number of heavy metals before, during and after they’re used. In the U.S. alone, an estimated 70% of heavy metals in landfill come from discarded electronics.

With flat screen TVs getting bigger and cheaper every year, environmental costs continue to mount. To counter this, a new solution applies a discovery in nano-technology, based on self-assembled peptide nanotubes, to 'green' the optics and electronics industry.

Researchers Nadav Amdursky and Prof. Gil Rosenman of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Electrical Engineering say their technology could make flat screen TV production green and can even make medical equipment — like subcutaneous ultrasound devices — more sensitive. And now, like the UAE’s Ginger Dosier who can grow bricks in the lab, scientists say they can grow their own organic LEDs."