Recovering materials from waste mobile phones: Recent technological developments

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• mobile phone 92%
• technological development 76%
• material 29%
• recycling 28%
• recycling potential 11%
• leaching 11%
• inorganic acid 10%
• materials technology 10%
• particle size 10%
• industrial practice 10%
• electronic equipment 9%
• precious metal 8%
• industrialization 7%
• research and development 7%
• silver 6%
• gold 6%
• trial 5%
• sustainability 5%
• consumption 5%
• acid 4%
• industry 4%
• metal 4%
• laboratory 3%
• trend 3%
• method 3%
• rate 2%

Business & Economics

• Mobile Phone 100%
• Technological Development 69%
• Particle Size 25%
• Metals 13%
• Mobile Phone Industry 12%
• Printed Circuit Board 11%
• Pretreatment 11%
• Disassembly 11%
• Academic Journals 10%
• Life Span 8%
• Sustainability 8%
• Industrialization 7%
• Guidance 7%

Engineering & Materials Science

• Cellular telephones 69%
• Recycling 42%
• Leaching 17%
• Particle size 13%
• Inorganic acids 13%
• Precious metals 9%
• Silver 7%
• Gold 7%
• Printed circuit boards 7%
• Acids 6%
• Sustainable development 6%
• Electronic equipment 6%
• Metals 4%
• Industry 3%