Science news articles about 'printed circuit boards'

  • Turning those old electronic circuit boards into new park benches

    ... environmental pollution through resource preservation, reuses fibres and resins of waste printed circuit boards (PCBs) that were thought worthless to produce a variety of high-strength materials...
  • Contact through silver particles in ink

    ... a silicon wafer and a membrane, are embedded in a printed circuit board. So that the necessary current can flow between ... height of 1 to 1.5 millimeters, the printed conductor paths are a mere 2 to 3 ...
  • New Process May Convert Toxic Computer Waste Into Safe Products

    ... researchers in Romania and Turkey have developed a simple, efficient method for recycling printed circuit boards into environmentally-friendly raw materials for use in fuel, plastic, and other useful ...
  • Plastic as a conductor

    ... hybrids are to be used in the very places where plastic components are equipped with printed circuit boards, for instance in cars or aircraft. Until now, this was only possible via the roundabout ...
  • Strength through diversity

    ... are also pursuing interdisciplinary developments in new technologies for manufacturing printed circuit boards. The experts at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Applied ...
  • ACS Weekly PressPac -- Feb. 11, 2009

    ... (e-waste) pile up each year. The printed circuit boards used in personal computers, cell phones, ... with Nonmetals Separated from Pulverized Waste Printed Circuit Boards" DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT ARTICLE: ...
  • Toward cheap underwater sensor nets

    ... don't learn how to revise a schematic, layout the printed circuit board, assemble the circuit and then perform field tests. I have friends at other schools, and when it ...
  • Ant-Sized Microbots Travel in Swarms

    ... budget, they built an entire robot on a single circuit board. Single-chip designs have previously ... attach different modules to a flexible printed circuit board using surface mount technology. They then ...

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