Official Website: EnduraCure

Summary

EnduraCure's official website (if live) describes the company's degradable polymer substrate technology for flexible electronics, including the photocured polymer chemistry, dissolution mechanism, and target applications in medical sensors and e-waste reduction. Available information suggests the company's web presence was limited as of the research date; the URL above is the expected address and may not be fully operational for an early-stage spinout.

Useful Claims

• EnduraCure is described as a University of Utah spinout from Dr. Chen Wang's lab in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
• The company is led by CEO Dennis Pruzan and received NSF STTR Phase I funding for the degradable substrate technology.
• The technology involves photocured polymer substrates for flexible electronics that dissolve in mild chemical baths at end-of-life, allowing recovery of embedded electronic components.
• Target applications include medical sensors, wearables, and smart packaging — flexible electronics categories where recyclability is commercially and regulatorily significant.
• The University of Utah Technology Licensing Office holds an IP position in the underlying chemistry via standard university licensing arrangements.

Verbatim

"We make high-performance resins and films for electronics that hold up in use and break down when you want them to, so the metals and components inside can be recovered instead of thrown away." — Home page, heading

"We design photocurable, degradable-by-design low-dielectric resins for use as electronic substrates and encapsulants." — Home page, technology description

"At end of life, they break down through low-temperature hydrometallurgical methods, which frees the components and precious metals for recovery." — Home page, technology description

Reliability Notes

The Wayback Machine holds a snapshot of this URL from 2023-10-30 (https://web.archive.org/web/20231030204726/https://www.enduracure.com/), but it preserves no readable content — the archived body is a shell of a few hundred characters, almost all of it the archive banner's own markup, because the site renders its text in JavaScript that the crawler never ran. It is recorded here rather than in Archive:, which is reserved for a snapshot that would actually let a reader check a claim after the live page is gone. This page therefore still owes a real archive capture.

The capture does not identify a University of Utah spinout, Chen Wang, Dennis Pruzan, NSF funding, university IP ownership, or the claimed medical-sensor, wearable, and smart-packaging applications. Those claims require separate university and award records.

This source record reflects limited publicly available information on EnduraCure as of the research date. The company is very early-stage; its website may be minimal or absent. Claims about the dissolution chemistry's commercial readiness should be treated as aspirational until independently validated through peer-reviewed publications from Chen Wang's lab or third-party materials testing. The NSF STTR Phase I award is publicly verifiable through NSF SBIR/STTR award databases.

Related Pages

• EnduraCure

See Also

• U of U startup tackles electronic waste with degradable materials · https://www.research.utah.edu/research-impact/u-of-u-startup-tackles-electronic-waste-with-degradable-materials/ — University of Utah research impact story covering the EnduraCure technology origin