Per and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent organic pollutants, adversely affecting the environment. The strong carbon-fluorine bonds of PFASs make them resistant to physical and metabolic degradation leading to bioaccumulation, which can have serious effects on human’s health, wildlife and ecosystem. The conventional analytical techniques for the quantitative determination of PFASs in environmental matrices are HPLC, GC-MS, <i>etc</i>. Despite their high reliability and accuracy, these laboratory-based techniques are expensive and can analyze only a limited number of samples, which impedes their broad applicability. To advance analysis and fast screening of samples, there is a critical need to develop cost effective, sensitive, easy to handle and portable methods for field detection of PFASs. This presentation will describe rational design of materials with specific and characteristic binding abilities for PFAS that can be incorporated into passive samplers and sensors for on site detection.  The interaction of several materials with selected PFAS species and their incorporation into passive samples and an electrochemical sensing design will be discussed. This approach provides a new method for achieving qualitative and quantitative analysis of PFASs in the field. The developed method has potential for the onsite, selective, and sensitive detection of PFASs.<br/><br/>

Rational material design for rapid capture and detection of perfluoroalkyl species

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