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The challenges of going PFAS-free
Chemical & Engineering News – Researchers find that ditching fluorine demands adjusting device designs and usage
This engineer drives a water-cleaning lab around the US
Chemical & Engineering News – Tzahi Cath’s lab on wheels turns effluent from wastewater treatment plants into drinkable water
How to get rid of toxic ‘forever chemical’ pollution
Nature – Regulatory efforts to purge PFASs from drinking water have led to a rush for technologies that can capture and destroy the chemicals.
Freshwater Threat: Salt
ChemMatters
Novel method directly produces alloys from oxides
MRS Bulletin
Light it up
ChemMatters
How do you make salty water drinkable? The hunt for fresh solutions to a briny problem
Nature – Unconventional methods for desalination could create more drinking water, help many industries to deal with problematic brines and increase lithium supplies for batteries.
Chemists forge paths to inaccessible sugars
Chemical & Engineering News – As organic chemists replace clunky reactions with more precise ones, carbohydrate scientists could gain unprecedented access to sugar molecules
Could the world go PFAS-free? Proposal to ban ‘forever chemicals’ fuels debate
Nature – A European agency is considering sweeping restrictions on fluorinated chemicals used in jet engines, electric cars, refrigeration systems, semiconductors and many consumer products.