PFAS are considered one of the greatest environmental problems of our time. Researchers at the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf have now developed two methods for breaking down these "forever chemicals" in the laboratory.
A hair-thin copper wire is struck by one of the world’s most powerful lasers – and vaporizes in trillionths of a second. Dresden researchers have captured the process in unprecedented detail, with implications for future fusion reactors.
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