A team of chemists and materials scientists at the National University of Singapore, working with colleagues from Manchester University, in the U.K., and Guangdong University of Technology, in China, has developed a type of sponge made of graphene oxide and chitosan, that can be used to extract gold from electronic waste.
source https://phys.org/news/2024-10-graphene-oxide-chitosan-sponge-ten.html
Sunday, 27 October 2024
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