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Plants use light to make energy – and a team of scientists is using the same principle to power chemical reactions. fhm/Moment via Getty Images

Light‑powered reactions could make the chemical manufacturing industry more energy‑efficient

Arindam Sau, University of Colorado Boulder; Amreen Bains, Colorado State University, and Anna Wolff, Colorado State University

Chemical manufacturing is an energy-intensive industry. A team of chemists is designing a technique that could power the necessary reactions with sunlight or LEDs.
PFAS can contaminate the environment – their chemical structure makes them difficult to remove. George Pachantouris/Moment via Getty Images

We developed a way to use light to dismantle PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ – long‑lasting environmental pollutants

Arindam Sau, University of Colorado Boulder; Mihai Popescu, Colorado State University, and Xin Liu, Colorado State University

PFAS are made up of a chain of incredibly strong carbon-fluorine bonds, which make them difficult to break down.

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