{"id":199305,"date":"2024-11-12T04:23:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T10:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/breakthrough-tech-captures-and-destroys-forever-chemicals-in-a-single-process-a-game-changer-for-clean-water"},"modified":"2024-11-12T04:23:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T10:23:56","slug":"breakthrough-tech-captures-and-destroys-forever-chemicals-in-a-single-process-a-game-changer-for-clean-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/breakthrough-tech-captures-and-destroys-forever-chemicals-in-a-single-process-a-game-changer-for-clean-water","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough Tech Captures and Destroys \u201cForever Chemicals\u201d in a Single Process \u2014 a Game-Changer for Clean Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-tech-captures-and-destroys-forever-chemicals-in-a-single-process-a-game-changer-for-clean-water2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers created a single-step device using redox electrodialysis and electrosorption to capture and destroy diverse PFAS chemicals, aiming to address contamination in water and industrial wastewater.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A study from the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-illinois-at-urbana-champaign\/\">University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign<\/a> is the first to introduce an electrochemical method capable of capturing, concentrating, and destroying diverse PFAS chemicals\u2014including the increasingly common ultra-short-chain PFAS\u2014in water, all in a single process. This breakthrough holds promise for tackling the mounting industrial challenge of PFAS contamination, especially within semiconductor manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.illinois.edu\/view\/6367\/874332953\">A previous U. of I. study<\/a> showed that short-and long-chain PFAS can be removed from water using electrochemically driven adsorption, referred to as electrosorption, but this method is ineffective for ultra-short-chain molecules because of their small size and different chemical properties. The new study, led by Illinois chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Xiao Su, combines a desalination filtration technology, called redox electrodialysis, with electrosorption in a single device to address the problems associated with capturing the complete PFAS size spectrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers created a single-step device using redox electrodialysis and electrosorption to capture and destroy diverse PFAS chemicals, aiming to address contamination in water and industrial wastewater. A study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is the first to introduce an electrochemical method capable of capturing, concentrating, and destroying diverse PFAS chemicals\u2014including the increasingly common ultra-short-chain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}