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New roadmap advances catalytic solutions to destroy ‘forever chemicals’

May. 6, 2025


A team of researchers from Rice University, Carnegie Mellon University and other leading global institutions has outlined a bold new roadmap for harnessing heterogeneous catalysis to destroy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the so-called “forever chemicals” that have contaminated water supplies worldwide.

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Wong to receive International Precious Metals Institute’s Henry J. Albert Award

Jan. 27, 2025


Patrick Kurp - Dec. 19, 2024

POSTED IN: RICE ENGINEERING > News

Michael Wong, the Tina and Sunit Patel Professor in Molecular Nanotechnology and chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice, will receive the 2025 Henry J. Albert Award from the International Precious Metals Institute (IPMI).

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New Rice research center takes on challenge to break down, replace ‘forever chemicals’

Sep. 16, 2024


Silvia Cernea Clark - Aug. 30, 2024

POSTED IN: RICE NEWS > Current News > 2024

Rice University inaugurated a new research center dedicated to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) Wednesday during a visit to campus by representatives of the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC).

Mohamed Ibrahim gives overview of PFAS
Rice researcher calls for safer PFAS-free alternatives

Jul. 24, 2024


Patrick Kurp - Jul. 18, 2024

POSTED IN: RICE ENGINEERING > News

For 80 years, “forever chemicals” have been used to coat our pots and pans, put out fires and make our carpets resistant to stains, among many other applications.

Rice engineering student Alejandro Moyano adjusts the drum of a grinder being tested at the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen
Students wonder what to do with old windmill blades

Jul. 3, 2024


HOUSTON – (April 29, 2021) – Wind power has a bright future, but what happens when wind turbines power down? A worn blade the length of a football field isn’t easy to recycle.

Rice University engineering students are working on environmentally sensitive strategies to process decommissioned blades for recycling or disposal. The Bladecycle project, based at Rice’s Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen, requires them to think big.

https://news.rice.edu/news/2023/rice-u-chemist-named-chemical-and-engineering-news-talented-12
Rice U. chemist named to Chemical and Engineering News' Talented 12

Jul. 3, 2024


Silvia Cernea Clark - May. 19, 2023

Rice University chemist Raúl Hernández Sánchez is one of 12 early-career scientists named to C&EN’s 2023 Talented 12 cohort for his research in inorganic and supramolecular chemistry.

Students at Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering calling themselves “PFAS and PFurious”
Rice engineers WERC hard for the money

Jul. 3, 2024


Mike Williams - Apr. 16, 2021

Students at Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering calling themselves “PFAS and PFurious” took four prizes, including first place, in this year’s 31st WERC Environmental Design Contest for their development of a system to remove harmful chemicals from fluids.

Illustration showing how a composite material containing sheets of boron nitride
Rice improves catalyst that destroys ‘forever chemicals’ with sunlight

Jul. 3, 2024


HOUSTON – (July 25, 2022) – Rice University chemical engineers have improved their design for a light-powered catalyst that rapidly breaks down PFOA, one of the world’s most problematic “forever chemical” pollutants.

Michael Wong
Boron nitride destroys PFAS 'forever' chemicals PFOA, GenX

Jul. 3, 2024


HOUSTON -- (July 7, 2020) -- Rice University chemical engineers found an efficient catalyst for destroying PFAS "forever" chemicals where they least expected.

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