Breaking down BPA and similar pollutants with sunlight, nanoparticles and graphene
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - 10:31
in Physics & Chemistry
Many pollutants with the potential to meddle with hormones—with bisphenol A (BPA) as a prime example—are already common in the environment. In an effort to clean up these pollutants found in the soil and waterways, scientists are now reporting a novel way to break them down by recruiting help from nanoparticles and light. The study appears in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.