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Accelerating Chemical Innovation: Inside Argonne’s Chain Reaction Innovations Program — A Conversation with Rachel Harris, Ph.D.
23+ hour, 3+ min ago (277+ words) This week I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Rachel Harris, Technical Project Manager, Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), Argonne National Laboratory, and our own Dr. Richard Engler, to discuss Argonne National Laboratory's Chain Reaction Innovations entrepreneurship. We here at…...
EUON Publishes Report on Nano-Enabled Textiles
3+ week, 3+ day ago (666+ words) On December 1, 2025, the European Union (EU) Observatory for Nanomaterials (EUON) announced the availability of a report analyzing the applications of nano-enabled textiles and their presence on the EU and global markets. The report, Information on Nano-Enabled Textiles, addresses the growing…...
Inside ACS’s Green Chemistry Challenge — A Conversation with Adelina Voutchkova, Ph.D. and Richard E. Engler, Ph.D.
4+ week, 2+ day ago (244+ words) This week I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Adelina Voutchkova, Director of Sustainable Development at the American Chemical Society (ACS), and my colleague Dr. Richard Engler, B&C's Director of Chemistry, to discuss ACS' much-coveted Green Chemistry Challenge…...
PFAS or Not?: TOF Analysis Poses Tough Challenges for Identifying PFAS
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (541+ words) TOF Is a Problematic Proxy for PFAS: Key Technical Issues Therefore, with respect to using TOF methods on consumer products, it is important to select a TOF method best suited for the expected type and concentration of PFAS that may…...
EPA Preliminarily Determines that 1,2-Dichloroethane Poses Unreasonable Risk to Human Health and the Environment
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (211+ words) EPA states that it is preliminarily determining that EDC exposure to consumers or the general population, associated with any COU, does not significantly contribute to unreasonable risk of injury to human health. EPA states that EDC "is a volatile, colorless,…...
BB-REG-NET Report Finds Biodegradable Plastics Can Mitigate Long-Term Environmental Impacts of Conventional Plastics
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (630+ words) On October 14, 2025, BB-REG-NET, a United Kingdom (UK) regulatory science network for biobased and biodegradable materials, published a report entitled "Addressing Persistent Plastic Pollution: The Case for Biodegradable Solutions." Alder BioInsights conducted a literature review of the evidence around the presence,…...
American Chemical Society Accepting Nominations for 2026 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (374+ words) The American Chemical Society (ACS) has begun accepting nominations for the 2026 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. The awards are intended to promote the environmental and economic benefits of developing and using novel green chemistry. They recognize novel green chemistry technologies that…...
PFAS, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (127+ words) The title comes from the famous line in the movie The Princess Bride, spoken by Inigo Montoya in response to Vizzini's repeated use of the word "inconceivable." It's a clever way of pointing out that someone is misusing a word…...
Study Claims PFAS Can be Destroyed and Converted into Fluorochemicals with Finite Phosphate Saved for Reuse
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (256+ words) Do you want to'destroy PFAS? But why stop there? Continue on to convert them into high value fluorochemicals, and recover and reuse the phosphate salts. That's what one new study claims it can do. The phosphate salts can be recovered…...
New Study Suggests Human Gut Bacteria May Aid in PFAS Absorption
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (568+ words) A recent study published in Nature Microbiology by researchers at the University of Cambridge revealed that certain human gut bacteria may have the capacity to bioaccumulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and could potentially aid in their excretion from the…...