ArticleEnvironmental science. Advances2023
Mechanochemical destruction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in aqueous film-forming foams and contaminated soil.
Article in Environmental science. Advances, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Mechanochemical Degradation and Fluoride Recovery of Perfluorosulfonic Acid Polymer Membrane.ChemSusChem · 2026Article
- Recent advances in the degradation of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) at low temperature (≤100 °C).Chemical science · 2026Review
- Understanding the Defluorination Mechanism of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Wastewater: From Microscopic Process to Practical Application.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Review
- Silicate-Enabled Mechanochemical Mineralization of Polymeric and Nonpolymeric PFAS into Sodium Fluoride.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026Article
- Single-pot mechanochemically-enabled fluorine atom closed-loop economy using PFASs as fluorinating agents.Nature communications · 2026Article
- The PFAS roadmap-Navigating a path together to improved management.Sustainability science and technology · 2026Article
- Meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals with Mechanochemistry.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2024Review
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Abstract
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are a class of synthetic chemicals of concern that exhibit extreme persistence within the environment and possess physicochemical properties that are resistant to targeted degradation. Comprising substantial concentrations of PFASs, aqueous film-forming foams (AFFFs) present a major exposure pathway to the environment having been applied to land at firefighting-training sites globally for decades. This has led to significant contamination of environmental media. Herein, we demonstrate that mechanochemical destruction (MCD) is an effective method for the destruction of PFASs in an AFFF concentrate and an authentic sample of PFAS-contaminated soil derived from a decommissioned firefighting training facility. Both targeted analysis and non-targeted analysis were used in this study to evaluate the degradation of PFASs in complex substrates during MCD treatment. Destruction efficiencies of target PFAS subgroups ranged from 99.88% to 100%. The only additive employed for MCD treatment was quartz sand, which was used only for the liquid AFFF sample, with no additives required for the destruction of PFASs in the contaminated soil. This confirms the viability of MCD for both the remediation of PFAS-contaminated land and the destruction of stockpiled AFFFs.
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