Engineers at University of California Riverside are the first to report selective breakdown of a particularly stubborn class of PFAS, called fluorinated carboxylic acids (FCAs), by common microorganisms.
Biochemistry
May 23, 2022
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23
Water scarcity is a growing problem around the world. Desalination of seawater is an established method to produce drinkable water but comes with huge energy costs. For the first time, researchers use fluorine-based nanostructures ...
Nanophysics
May 12, 2022
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1236
Look at the ingredients on a tube of toothpaste and you will probably read something like "contains sodium fluoride." Fluoride, as you probably know, is important for healthy teeth. It strengthens enamel, the hard, protective ...
Astronomy
Nov 05, 2021
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189
A new discovery is shedding light on how fluorine—an element found in bones and teeth as fluoride—is forged in the universe. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern ...
Astronomy
Nov 04, 2021
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175
Just because you've solved a standing chemistry challenge doesn't mean you can't make it better. Rice University scientists had that in mind when they set out to improve their technique to make a common building block for ...
Materials Science
Oct 05, 2021
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13
Diamond may be just a phase carbon goes through when exposed to a flash of heat, but that makes it far easier to obtain.
Nanomaterials
Jun 21, 2021
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998
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis reported the first observations of a new form of fluorine, the isotope 13F, described in the journal Physical Review Letters.
General Physics
Mar 30, 2021
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563
A team of researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China and the University of California has found a way to use radicals to break C-F bonds one at a time when working with trifluoroacetamides and acetates. ...
Save your silver! It's better used for jewelry than as a catalyst for drugs.
Materials Science
Feb 26, 2021
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99
A team of researchers from the University of Chicago and Emory University has found evidence of a hydrogen bond/covalent bond hybrid. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes experiments they conducted ...
