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New material could filter water contaminants that others miss
« on: June 21, 2017, 01:24:43 pm »
New material could filter water contaminants that others miss
Chemicals from nonstick manufacturing have been difficult to clean up
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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?tgt=nr
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Re: New material could filter water contaminants that others miss
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2017, 04:33:08 pm »
Excellent!

PFOA is a difficult beast!  I wonder how much less effective it is on all the other per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs).  A game-changer would be awesome!
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