A Cornell University-led research team has created a new process to extract 99.9% of the gold from electronic waste to help turn carbon dioxide into useful organic materials. Discarded electronics are ...

Let's be real here. Most of us toss old phones and computers into a drawer and forget they exist. Some go straight to the ...

An interdisciplinary team of experts in green chemistry, engineering and physics at Flinders University in Australia has developed a safer and more sustainable approach to extract and recover gold ...

If you open almost any modern gadget you'll almost definitely strike a tiny bit of gold. Thanks to the precious metal's high conductivity and resistance to corrosion it's used on printed circuit board ...

(Nanowerk News) A Cornell University-led research team has developed a method for extracting gold from electronics waste, then using the recovered precious metal as a catalyst for converting carbon ...

Chris Elgar receives funding from EPSRC grant EP/W018632/1 'Technology critical metal recycling using ultrasonics and catalytic etchants (SonoCat)' Our increasing reliance on technology is placing ...