Lighting our homes with LED lights developed from rice husks !

April 13, 2022 – Peter van Barneveld

Sounds like a joke, but thanks to a research team from the Hiroshima University I know this can be a possible future. They found a way to recycle rice husks to create a silicon quantum dot (QD) LED light. Their new method is a low-cost, environmentally friendly way to turn agricultural waste into state-of-the-art light-emitting diodes. And they already suggest this method could be applied to other plants, like sugar cane, bamboo, wheat, barley, or grasses. Really amazing!

Rice field Maruyama Japan - Lighting our homes with LED lights developed from rice husks

What do you think of this future? Would love to read what you think!