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Illinois engineers, from left, Kwiyong Kim, Xiao Su, Johannes Elbert and Paola Baldaguez Medina are part of a team that developed a new polymer electrode device that can capture and destroy PFAS contaminants present in water. (Photo by L. Brian Stauffer)
Researchers have demonstrated that they can attract, capture and destroy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water using a tunable copolymer electrode.
Using electrochemical reactions, engineers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign captured and destroyed...