Forever chemicals (PFAS) have been chilling in our water like uninvited guests since the 1940s—non-stick pans, raincoats, firefighting foam, you name it—linked to cancer, heart issues, and basically ruining family planning. Old carbon filters slog along like they’re paid by the hour, but Rice University engineers whipped up a layered double hydroxide (copper-aluminum-nitrate magic) that sucks up these indestructible nasties 100 times faster, binds them tight, then heats and destroys them with calcium carbonate for safe landfill disposal. Lab tests on real contaminated water? Crushing it. Soon your tap might not come with a side of eternal toxins.
Breakthrough Water Filter Removes ‘Forever Chemicals’ 100x Faster Than Carbon
