Defluorination is challenging but imperative to address the pollution crisis associated with these essential industrial chemicals, including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, fluoro ...

A research team led by Prof. Kang Yanbiao from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese ...

The resulting products could be relayed to other microorganisms for defluorination under in aerobic conditions. Engineers at UC Riverside are the first to report selective breakdown of a ...

Here we developed a synchronous defluorination-oxidation process with a PEC device, which couples the photolysis defluorination with •OH-initiated oxidation. Efficient defluorination and TOC ...

Now, a room-temperature defluorination method proposed by researchers at Ritsumeikan University could revolutionize PFAS treatment. Their study, published in the journal Angewandte Chemie ...

The technique is a photocatalytic process, using visible light to break down PFAS and FPs at room temperature into fluorine ions. Using their method, the researchers achieved 100 percent ...

Princeton professor Peter Jaffé will recount his research group’s discovery of a novel bacterium with the surprising ability to degrade the group of ubiquitous and resilient chemical pollutants known ...

Houk at the University of California Los Angeles found a way to hit the defluorination brakes for two key classes of molecules. The trick to controlling the reaction was identifying the right ...

Some are aiming to boost the microbes’ activity to achieve complete defluorination, while others are developing practical ways to combine microbes with chemical remediation of contaminated water ...