{"id":227191,"date":"2025-12-16T01:43:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/engineered-material-uses-light-to-destroy-pfas-and-other-contaminants-in-water"},"modified":"2025-12-16T01:43:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:43:20","slug":"engineered-material-uses-light-to-destroy-pfas-and-other-contaminants-in-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/engineered-material-uses-light-to-destroy-pfas-and-other-contaminants-in-water","title":{"rendered":"Engineered material uses light to destroy PFAS and other contaminants in water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineered-material-uses-light-to-destroy-pfas-and-other-contaminants-in-water.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Materials scientists at Rice University and collaborators have developed a material that uses light to break down a range of pollutants in water, including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, the \u201cforever chemicals\u201d that have garnered attention for their pervasiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials scientists at Rice University and collaborators have developed a material that uses light to break down a range of pollutants in water, including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, the \u201cforever chemicals\u201d that have garnered attention for their pervasiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227191","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}