University of Bayreuth: Fluorinated Plastics With an Expiry Date
July 12, 2024
July 12, 2024
BAYREUTH, Germany, July 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Bayreuth issued the following news release:
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Chemists at the University of Bayreuth, in collaboration with researchers from Berlin, have produced a new class of fluorinated polymers that degrade 20 times faster than their non-fluorinated equivalents. These results can help to prevent the accumulation of the industrially used fluorine compounds PFAS, also known as "forever chemicals", in the environm . . .
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Chemists at the University of Bayreuth, in collaboration with researchers from Berlin, have produced a new class of fluorinated polymers that degrade 20 times faster than their non-fluorinated equivalents. These results can help to prevent the accumulation of the industrially used fluorine compounds PFAS, also known as "forever chemicals", in the environm . . .