Recycling Indium from Scraped Glass of Liquid Crystal Display: Process Optimizing and Mechanism Exploring

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1306-1312

  Zeng, Xianlai ^a   Wang, Fang ^a   Sun, Xiaofei ^a   Li, Jinhui ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

E waste; Green chemistry; Indium; Liquid crystal display; Process; Recycling

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HYDROMETALLURGY; INDIUM; LEACHING; LIQUIDS; PROCESSING; RECYCLING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

E-WASTES; GREEN CHEMISTRY; INITIAL CONCENTRATION; LEACHING PROCESS; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY(LCD); OPTIMAL PARAMETER; POTENTIAL THEORY; RECYCLING PROCESS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 84935025997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.5b00020     Document Type: Article

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