Environmental Toxicology Faculty Lead in Solving Important PFAS Contamination Problems

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), widely used in industrial and consumer products, have become a major environmental and public health concern.  They are known as forever chemicals because their fluorine carbon bonds are strong and extremely resistant to degradation.  Four ETOX faculty, Jinyong Liu, Haizhou Liu and Yujie Men, professors of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Ying-Hsuan Lin, a professor of Environmental Sciences, are making significant progress in identifying chemical and microbiological processes that can degrade PFAS and clean up contaminated industrial sites and water.  The work of these faculty and their research teams have been highlighted in a recent article in the Fall 2023 edition of UCR Magazine.  Our congratulations to Jinyong, Haizhou, Yujie and Ying-Hsuan and their research groups for this recognition of their important work. 

[The figure above is from the Riverside Public Utility website.]