#vitrimer — Public Fediverse posts

#FunFactFriday: With e-waste piling up to 62 billion kilograms worldwide, scientists are taking a new approach to recyclable, healable electronics using vitrimer. Are you excited to see this hit the electronics circuit? News Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/06/250602190434.htm

#Electronics #Recycle #Vitrimer

`vPCBs work by replacing most of the PCB material with vitrimer. #Vitrimer is best thought of as a highly engineered #polymer jelly that can be either solidified to create a PCB or swelled to make it possible to pluck out components for reuse or recycling. With this process, which should be compatible with existing #manufacturing processes, researchers were able to recover 98% of the vitrimer and 100% of the glass fiber by #recycling a vPCB.`

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/manufacturing/replace-pcbs-with-vitrimer-pcbs-to-save-millions-of-tons-in-ewaste-say-uw-researchers