Many electronic items you use daily, including your laptops, chargers, and smartphones, contain a tiny amount of gold. This is because gold is an excellent conductor of electricity and doesn’t rust or ...

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ZURICH, Switzerland, March 6, 2024 (ENS) – Transforming base materials into gold was one of the unachieved aims of ancient alchemists. But now Professor Raffaele Mezzenga from the Department of Health ...

Researchers in Switzerland have developed an innovative method to extract pure gold from electronic waste using whey, a ...

Swiss scientists at ETH Zurich have developed a method to extract 450 milligrams of 22-carat gold from discarded computer motherboards using a protein derived from whey.

At Flinders University, scientists have cracked a cleaner and greener way to extract gold—not just from ore, but also from our mounting piles of e-waste. By using a compound normally found in pool ...

It’s fair to say that interest in gold is longstanding. This includes recovering the gold used as a conductor in electronics — especially cell phones, which use more than laptops. Gold is considered a ...

ETH Zurich researchers have developed a sustainable method to recover gold from electronic waste. The method uses a sponge made from denatured whey proteins that selectively adsorb gold ions. 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 ...

Scientists have figured out a way to recycle important metals trapped inside electrical waste. Using textiles, researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have improved the ...