Tu-Nan Gao, Si Huang, Rick Nooijen, Yumei Zhu, Gabriele Kociok-Köhn, Tobias Stuerzer, Guanna Li, Harry Bitter, Gert Salentijn, Bo Chen, Fedor M Miloserdov, Han Zuilhof
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) pose a rapidly increasing global problem as their widespread use and high stability lead worldwide to water contamination, with significant detrimental health effects.[1] Supramolecular chemistry has been invoked to develop materials geared towards the specific capture of PFAS from water,[2] to reduce the concentration below advisory safety limits (e.g., 70 ng/L for the sum of perfluorooctyl sulfonic acid, PFOS and perfluorooctanoic acid, PFOA). Scale-up and use in natural waters with high PFAS concentrations has hitherto posed a problem...
March 20, 2024: Angewandte Chemie