'Forever chemicals' destroyed by simple new method
New process beheads PFAS, causing it to fall apart into benign end products.
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New process beheads PFAS, causing it to fall apart into benign end products.
Using common reagents in heated water, chemists can ‘behead’ and break down PFAS, leaving only harmless compounds.
PFAS, a group of manufactured chemicals commonly used since the 1940s, are called “forever chemicals” for a reason. Bacteria can’t...
US chemists have developed a process that causes two major classes of PFAS compounds to fall apart, leaving behind only benign end products. The technique using low temperatures...
If you’re despairing at recent reports that Earth’s water sources have been thoroughly infested with hazardous human-made chemicals called PFAS that can last for thousands of years, making even ra ...