{"id":232140,"date":"2026-02-26T05:23:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/nano-cage-removes-up-to-98-of-pfas-in-tap-water-tests"},"modified":"2026-02-26T05:23:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:23:56","slug":"nano-cage-removes-up-to-98-of-pfas-in-tap-water-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/nano-cage-removes-up-to-98-of-pfas-in-tap-water-tests","title":{"rendered":"Nano-cage removes up to 98% of PFAS in tap water tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nano-cage-removes-up-to-98-of-pfas-in-tap-water-tests2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contamination of ground, surface and drinking water by perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) affects millions of people worldwide. A promising new method developed by Flinders University scientists paves the way to help remove the most difficult-to-capture variants of these persistent pollutants from water.<\/p>\n<p>The research team, led by Flinders ARC Research Fellow Dr. Witold Bloch, has discovered adsorbents that effectively capture PFAS, including short-chain forms that are especially difficult to remove using existing technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/anie.202526027\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Angewandte Chemie International Edition<\/i><\/a>, showcases the use of a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-04-molecular-nanocages-pfas.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">nano-sized molecular cage<\/a> that acts as a highly selective \u201cPFAS trap.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contamination of ground, surface and drinking water by perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) affects millions of people worldwide. A promising new method developed by Flinders University scientists paves the way to help remove the most difficult-to-capture variants of these persistent pollutants from water. The research team, led by Flinders ARC Research Fellow Dr. Witold Bloch, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232140","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=232140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}