News tagged with computer circuit boards


'Self-healing' polymer may facilitate recycling of hard-to-dispose plastic

'Self-healing' polymer may facilitate recycling of hard-to-dispose plastic

Chemistry / Polymers

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in The Netherlands are reporting development of a new plastic with potential for use in the first easy-to-recycle computer circuit boards, electrical insulation, and other electronics ...





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New process may convert toxic computer waste into safe products

New process may convert toxic computer waste into safe products

Chemistry /

created May 12, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Discarded computer parts could one day wind up fueling your car. That’s because researchers in Romania and Turkey have developed a simple, efficient method for recycling printed circuit boards into environmentally-friendly ...


Information superhighway’s trash yields a super highway asphalt

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Discarded electronic hardware, including bits and pieces that built the information superhighway, can be recycled into an additive that makes super-strong asphalt paving material for real highways, researchers in China are ...


Running electronics using light

Running electronics using light

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- "If you open up almost any electronic gadget, you will see various elements that operating using electric circuitries," Nader Engheta tells PhysOrg.com. "Many of them have different functi ...


Plastic as a conductor

Plastic as a conductor

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plastic that conducts electricity and metal that weighs no more than a feather? It sounds like an upside-down world. Yet researchers have succeeded in making plastics conductive and cutting ...


Steampipe keeps electronics cool

Steampipe keeps electronics cool

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- The cooling of electronic components is playing an increasing role in the design process of electronic equipment such as mobile telephones, games computers and laptops. Wessel Wits, PhD student ...


Seeing invisible resin

Technology / Engineering

created May 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When manufacturing chipboards, it is important to correctly distribute the resin on the wood shavings. Researchers are now developing a measuring technique that makes it possible to monitor the application ...


Strength through diversity

Strength through diversity

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny light-emitting diodes with optical microsystems that can produce all the colors of the rainbow, a new method for producing printed circuit boards - Fraunhofer researchers are showing ...


Understanding a cell's split personality aids synthetic circuits (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

As scientists work toward making genetically altered bacteria create living "circuits" to produce a myriad of useful proteins and chemicals, they have logically assumed that the single-celled organisms would always respond ...


Study looks at way US boards and CEOs manage risk

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A recent Carnegie Mellon University CyLab survey of corporate board directors reveals a gap in board and senior executive oversight in managing cyber risks.


Google board member steps down (AP)

Apple director Levinson leaves Google's board

Technology / Business

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Google Inc. said Monday that Arthur Levinson has resigned from the Internet search leader's board, averting a potential showdown with government regulators over his overlapping job as a director for ...



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