{"id":231339,"date":"2026-02-14T05:22:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/a-microfluidic-chip-for-one-step-detection-of-pfas-and-other-pollutants"},"modified":"2026-02-14T05:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:22:26","slug":"a-microfluidic-chip-for-one-step-detection-of-pfas-and-other-pollutants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/a-microfluidic-chip-for-one-step-detection-of-pfas-and-other-pollutants","title":{"rendered":"A microfluidic chip for one-step detection of PFAS and other pollutants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-microfluidic-chip-for-one-step-detection-of-pfas-and-other-pollutants.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Environmental pollutant analysis typically requires complex sample pretreatment steps such as filtration, separation, and preconcentration. When solid materials such as sand, soil, or food residues are present in water samples, analytical accuracy often decreases, and filtration can unintentionally remove trace-level target pollutants along with the solids.<\/p>\n<p>To address this challenge, a joint research team led by Dr. Ju Hyeon Kim at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), in collaboration with Professor Jae Bem You\u2019s group at Chungnam National University, has developed a microfluidic-based analytical device that enables direct extraction and analysis of pollutants from solid-containing samples without any pretreatment. The study was <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acssensors.5c01878\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>ACS Sensors<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Water, food, and environmental samples encountered in daily life may contain trace amounts of hazardous contaminants that are invisible to the naked eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental pollutant analysis typically requires complex sample pretreatment steps such as filtration, separation, and preconcentration. When solid materials such as sand, soil, or food residues are present in water samples, analytical accuracy often decreases, and filtration can unintentionally remove trace-level target pollutants along with the solids. To address this challenge, a joint research team led [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231339","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=231339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}