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New material could filter water contaminants that others miss
« on: September 16, 2017, 01:14:08 pm »

New material could filter water contaminants that others miss
 
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Laurel Hamers
4:23pm, June 20, 2017
 
A new material can pull a toxic, hard-to-degrade industrial chemical from drinking water more effectively than current methods.

Perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, hangs around in the environment for years and might cause health problems for people and animals. A new polymer material traps PFOA molecules, making them easy to filter out of water, researchers report in the June 14 Journal of the American Chemical Society.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-material-could-filter-water-contaminants-others-miss?mode=topic&context=60