Mit grüner Synthese zu sauberem Wasser (Clean Water Through Green Synthesis)
Beitrag by Franziska Emmerling et al. in the "Nachrichten aus der Chemie"
Jan 02, 2026
In the last issue of Nachrichten aus der Chemie, Franziska Emmerling and her colleagues report on how PFAS can be filtered out of contaminated water using nanoporous organic scaffold structures.
As part of Collaborative Research Center 1349 “Fluorine-Specific Interactions”, the team led by Franziska Emmerling at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) has developed new nanoporous organic framework structures (covalent organic frameworks, COFs) using mechanochemical synthesis. In laboratory tests, these structures were able to efficiently absorb various PFAS from contaminated water samples. The mechanochemical synthesis of the COFs is also particularly environmentally friendly and resource-efficient and, contrary to popular belief, can be easily scaled up to a large scale.