The scientific community’s understanding of the health and environmental effects of PFAS is evolving at a rapid pace. At the same time, researchers are developing new technologies to assess and remediate PFAS contamination. This section provides the latest updates on developments in PFAS-related science and technology.
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In 2021, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development revised the definition of PFAS to include any chemical with at least one fully fluorinated methyl or methylene carbon atom. As a result, PubChem, one of the largest open chemical databases used in suspect screening, now contains over 7 million PFAS.
October 23, 2023 | Environmental Science & Technology
This study provides an analysis of the types and concentrations of PFAS in consumer products as reported in the literature over the past decade based on 52 studies. It highlighted several gaps in knowledge.
September 27, 2023 | Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters
This study is the first to investigate the degradability of 10 emerging PFAS by an electrochemical plug flow reactor. The authors reported that emerging types of PFAS can potentially be degraded using this technology with relatively low electrical energy requirements.
August 29, 2023 | Journal of Hazardous Materials
This study explored the performance of a method for treating PFAS in environmental water samples.
August 4, 2023 | Chemosphere
This study analyzed the ability of ultrasound to degrade legacy PFAS via thermolysis. The results indicated that ultrasound efficiently degrades FTSAs and may potentially treat other classes of PFAS.
July 25, 2023 | The Journal of Physical Chemistry A