The Regents of the University of California met at UC Riverside on Friday, Jan. 27, in a daylong series of meetings that highlighted the campus’s role in spurring economic growth through technology development, agricultural innovation, and public health.
The University of California, Riverside (UCR) announced in a press release that the school’s chemical engineering and environmental scientists published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters in November a new method to break down per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) found in drinking water “into smaller compounds that are essentially harmless.” PFAS describes a […]
An insidious category of carcinogenic pollutants known as “forever chemicals” may not be so permanent after all. University of California, Riverside, chemical engineering and environmental scientists recently published new methods to chemically break up these harmful substances found in drinking water into smaller compounds that are essentially harmless.