The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation is seeking commercial partners interested in a process to more completely degrade PFAS.
PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) do not degrade in the environment and are known to bioaccumulate, resulting in environmental and public health challenges. Electrochemical approaches are believed to be one of the most practical ways to degrade PFAS, but are unable to completely degrade PFAS molecules and suffer from low Faradaic efficiencies.
UW-Madison researchers have developed a tandem electrochemical process for the near complete degradation of PFAS. The new process improves the efficacy and efficiency of PFAS degradation by cycling between an activation and degradation step. To avoid side reactions, the method utilizes a mediated decoupled process.
- Removal and degradation of PFAS during water treatment
- More completely degrades PFAS than currently available electrochemical methods