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 ...

Discarded electronics can be a gold mine – literally. Researchers have developed an efficient new way to use graphene to recover gold from electronic waste, without needing any other chemicals or ...

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 ...

If all 62 million metric tons of electronic waste the world produces in a year were loaded into garbage trucks, they’d encircle the planet bumper to bumper, according to a recent United Nations report ...

A Cornell University-led research team has created a new process to extract 99.9% of the gold from electronic waste to help ...

Researchers have used gold extracted from electronic waste as catalysts for reactions that could be applied to making medicines. Re-using gold from electronic waste prevents it from being lost to ...