{"id":242444,"date":"2026-08-09T12:29:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T17:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/scientists-find-two-new-ways-to-break-down-forever-chemicals-in-water"},"modified":"2026-08-09T12:29:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T17:29:50","slug":"scientists-find-two-new-ways-to-break-down-forever-chemicals-in-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/scientists-find-two-new-ways-to-break-down-forever-chemicals-in-water","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Find Two New Ways To Break Down \u201cForever Chemicals\u201d in Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-two-new-ways-to-break-down-forever-chemicals-in-water.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>An HZDR research team has developed methods for breaking down \u201cforever chemicals.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The carbon-fluorine bonds inside PFAS are among the strongest in chemistry, allowing these industrial pollutants to persist in water for years. Researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/helmholtz-zentrum-dresden-rossendorf\/\"> Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)<\/a> are testing two ways to break those bonds: hydrodynamic cavitation and cold atmospheric plasma combined with gas dispersion.<\/p>\n<p>Analyses by experts at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) confirmed that both processes degraded per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and released fluoride. If developed into practical industrial systems, the methods could help limit the amount of these highly persistent chemicals entering rivers, lakes and oceans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An HZDR research team has developed methods for breaking down \u201cforever chemicals.\u201d The carbon-fluorine bonds inside PFAS are among the strongest in chemistry, allowing these industrial pollutants to persist in water for years. Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) are testing two ways to break those bonds: hydrodynamic cavitation and cold atmospheric plasma combined with [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242444","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=242444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}