Scientists Find Two New Ways To Break Down “Forever Chemicals” in Water

Scientists Find Two New Ways To Break Down “Forever Chemicals” in Water

An HZDR research team has developed methods for breaking down “forever chemicals.” 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 [...]