Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Urban mining by flash Joule heating

  • Bing Deng,
  • Duy Xuan Luong,
  • Zhe Wang,
  • Carter Kittrell,
  • Emily A. McHugh,
  • James M. Tour

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26038-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Precious metals recovery from electronics wastes, termed urban mining, is significant for a circular economy. Here, the authors reported a solvent-free and ultrafast process based on flash Joule heating to recover precious metals and remove toxic heavy metals in electronic wastes.