Discovery, Fate, and Disposition of Polyfluorinated Chemicals & Design of Benign Materials

我们的小组探讨了含氟化学品污染对人类和环境的影响，并努力了解起作用的基本机制，以便我们能够就纠正措施提出建议。我们已经做出了许多发现，对行业和政府监管机构产生了积极影响，以去除消费品中的杂质，改变基本化学结构，从而帮助减少对人类和环境的污染。我们的工作旨在通过使用化学污染物作为实验探针，更好地了解自然界是如何以化学方式工作的。从数据中学习到的知识正在被纳入一套新的氟化表面活性剂的设计中，这些表面活性剂将具有与利用自然世界清洁自身的能力相匹配的化学结构。我们的目标是设计氟化化学结构，这些结构对于其预期用途很好，但容易降解，因此对人类和环境无害。

Our group explores the human and environmental implications of fluorinated chemical pollution and endeavours to understand the fundamental mechanisms at play so that we can advise as to corrective measures. We have made a number of discoveries that have positively influenced industry and government regulators to remove impurities in consumer products and alter the basic chemical architecture thereby helping reduce contamination of both humans and the environment. Our work seeks to better understand how the natural world works chemically by using chemical pollutants as experimental probes. Knowledge learned to data is being incorporated into the design of a new set of fluorinated surfactants that will have chemical architecture matched to take advantage of the capacity of the natural world to cleanse itself. Our objective is to design fluorinated chemical architectures that work well for their intended uses but are readily degraded and therefore benign to humans and the environment.