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Carbon-based catalyst can use sunlight to degrade PFAS

  • February 27, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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Carbon-based catalyst can use sunlight to degrade PFAS
An international team of scientists led by the University of Bath has developed a new catalyst—a substance that speeds up chemical reactions—that uses sunlight to break down so-called "forever chemicals" prevalent in the environment and known to accumulate in the human body with unknown long-term health effects.

Originally published at Phys.org

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