ESF Researchers Receive GLRC Grant 5/24/2021
A team of researchers from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry was among those receiving grants from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Syracuse-based Great Lakes Research Consortium (GLRC).
The ESF team, led by Assistant Professor Alexander B. Artyukhin, Department of Chemistry, received $24,789 to test a combined technology process for detecting new and unknown water pollutants missed by traditional screening practices that target known contaminants. Dr. John Hassett, Department of Chemistry, and Dr. Lemir Teron, Department of Environmental Studies will also be working on the project.
The team will analyze samples from Onondaga Lake and Lake Ontario to test the feasibility of using untargeted mass spectrometry technology paired with molecular networking to discover potential new pollutants, derivatives, or metabolites.
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Scientists Ask: Can Nanotech And Microbes Partner To Destroy PFAS?
Diana Aga, Henry M. Woodburn Professor of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo. Aga is the project s principal investigator.
Researchers will use analytical and computational techniques to understand, in detail, how PFAS degrade at each step of the proposed treatment process
Imagine this: In a wastewater treatment plant, engineered molecular-scale scissors chop up PFAS, toxic compounds that are so tough to break down that they’re called “forever chemicals.” Then, microbes digest the molecular scraps, clearing them from the water.
In a new project, researchers from the University at Buffalo and University of Pittsburgh are teaming up to design the approaches and tools that would make such a system possible. The group will seek to develop advanced catalytic carbon-metal nanomaterials that react with and snip PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), and to identify and isolate bacteria capable of consuming