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Several Southern California communities are being hit with smoke from the huge Line Fire in the San Bernardino Mountains. UC Riverside experts on environmental pollution describe what we’re breathing.
What if your house plant could tell you your water isn’t safe? Scientists are closer to realizing this vision, having engineered a plant to turn beet red in the presence of a banned, toxic pesticide.
UC Riverside chemical engineers have designed a fuel that ignites only with the application of electric current. Since it doesn’t react to flames and cannot start accidental fires during storage or transport, it is a “safe” liquid fuel.
UCR scientist discover chemical reaction pathways that destroy certain toxic water pollutants and render them into harmless substances.
University of California, Riverside, chemical and environmental engineering scientists have identified two species of bacteria found in soil that break down a class of stubborn “forever chemicals,” giving hope for low-cost biological cleanup of industrial pollutants. These bacteria destroy a subgroup of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, that have...
An insidious category of carcinogenic pollutants known as “forever chemicals” may not be so permanent after all. University of California, Riverside, chemical engineering and environmental scientists recently published new methods to chemically break up these harmful substances found in drinking water into smaller compounds that are essentially harmless. The patent-pending...
Scientists are developing artificial photosynthesis to help make food production more energy-efficient here on Earth, and one day possibly on Mars
Under anaerobic conditions, common microbial communities can break the ultra-strong carbon-fluorine bond
The use of sulfite and iodide under ultraviolet light can destroy PFAS in water in a few hours
Algae’s ability to establish symbiosis in coral without photosynthesis could help fight coral bleaching
Two UC Riverside experts explain how carbon capture and utilization technologies work, and what needs to improve for them to deliver on their promise
Novel color photography using a high-efficiency probe can super-focus white light into a 6-nanometer spot for nanoscale color imaging
Supercomputers and machine learning will help scientists optimize light-driven electron transfer
A catalyst that destroys perchlorate in water could clean Martian soil
Grants support continued development of tomatoes for vertical farming
The filter could help curb airborne spread of COVID-19 virus
Electromagnetic field directs shape formed by gas phase metal molecules
Activated carbon made from corn stover filters 98% of a pollutant from water
Water disinfectant reacts with chromium in iron pipes to form hexavalent chromium
A new hemp pulping method that converts 100% of the plant to useful components moves toward commercialization
