Phone is water soluble

In the future, people can retrieve the parts of the phone, the broken computer by immersing them in hot water.

Tablet PCs, mobile phones, music players, laptops are rolling out at breakneck speed. This situation means that e-waste will also increase rapidly. So many scientists have called on manufacturers to use electronic waste to make new products, or use materials that break down rapidly.

Livescience reports that researchers from the National Institute of Physics (NPL) have come up with the idea of making a breakthrough microchip board when it sinks into hot water. They use special polymer layers so the boards can withstand heat during recycling. However, it dissolves after a few seconds if exposed to hot water.

Resistors, capacitors and integrated circuits - things that are almost unchanged or modified by humans - are mounted on circuit boards. But after the board is submerged in hot water, people can easily remove them for reuse.

NPL tested the water soluble microchip board. The results show that scientists can recycle up to 90% of the components. At the same time, the recall rate for these boards is only 2%.