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New PCB design is repeatably recyclable — vitrimer PCBs could save millions of tons in eWaste, say UW researchers (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] Alexstarfire 4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Literally no mention in the article of how durable these things are. Kind of matters for how well they could just outright replace regular PCBs. I imagine it's perfectly fine for stuff you'd have at home or an office, but there's electronics everywhere these days. Would they last just as long in a car? Airplane? Tractors? Boats? Submarines? Satellites? Shuttles?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In the article there was a link to UW:s own article which had a link to research groups own page, which had a link to original research: "Recyclable vitrimer-based printed circuit boards for sustainable electronics" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-024-01333-7 .

I'm just a curious layman, but on my cursory look it seems that it's quite stable against heat, moisture and chemicals. Looks promising, hopefully this is cheap enough that manufacturers actually start using it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Ahh, I messed up my other comments. No matter, but I found the pre print here if you want to read more into it

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