{"id":218816,"date":"2025-07-27T00:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/researchers-create-safer-nonstick-surface-cutting-use-of-forever-chemicals"},"modified":"2025-07-27T00:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:03:17","slug":"researchers-create-safer-nonstick-surface-cutting-use-of-forever-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/researchers-create-safer-nonstick-surface-cutting-use-of-forever-chemicals","title":{"rendered":"Researchers create safer nonstick surface, cutting use of \u2018forever chemicals\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-create-safer-nonstick-surface-cutting-use-of-forever-chemicals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new material developed by researchers from University of Toronto Engineering could offer a safer alternative to the nonstick chemicals commonly used in cookware and other applications.<\/p>\n<p>The new substance repels both water and grease about as well as standard nonstick coatings\u2014but it contains much lower amounts of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a family of chemicals that have raised environmental and health concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe research community has been trying to develop safer alternatives to PFAS for a long time,\u201d says Professor Kevin Golovin, who heads the Durable Repellent Engineered Advanced Materials (DREAM) Laboratory at U of T Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new material developed by researchers from University of Toronto Engineering could offer a safer alternative to the nonstick chemicals commonly used in cookware and other applications. The new substance repels both water and grease about as well as standard nonstick coatings\u2014but it contains much lower amounts of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a family of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218816","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}