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Tailoring lixiviant properties to optimise selectivity in E-waste recycling

The scale of E-waste production makes the selective recovery of technology metals an important research topic. It has previously been shown that deep eutectic solvents, DESs, can be used to rapidly digest gold and in the current study the effect of varying water and ethylene glycol content on the ability to selectively recover metals in DESs was investigated.