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Green electronics constitutes not only a novel term but also twenty-first century's slogan; it means an emerging area of research covered the identifying compounds of natural origin and


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**Table 4.** Miniature sensors based on CPs.

determining economically efficient ways for the fabrication of materials that have applicability in environmentally friendly technologies and devices. The key factor of this chapter is to generate routes for the production of human- and environmentally safe electronics in the main and the integration of such electronic circumferences with biological tissue.

Scientific researches into the class of green electronics may implement not only the original assurance of organic electronics that is to carry cost-reasonable and energy efficient materials but also achieve inconceivable functionalities for electronics, for example, benign integration into life and environment. Modern electronics technology has turned the relationship energy consumed during fabrication versus energy consumed during exploitation of the product to a complete imbalance [48]. A key prerequisite for achieving sustainability in the electronics industry is the usage of materials and technologies that have low embodied energy. In this context, it is worth to emphasize miniaturization procedures and alternative conducting materials as—CPs, which our group successfully implemented in miniature sensor devices (**Table 4**).
