{"id":253666,"date":"2023-07-27T21:38:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T16:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=253666"},"modified":"2023-07-27T21:38:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T16:08:04","slug":"nature-inspires-breakthrough-achievement-hazard-free-production-of-fluorochemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nature-inspires-breakthrough-achievement-hazard-free-production-of-fluorochemicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature inspires breakthrough achievement: Hazard-free production of fluorochemicals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>Nature inspires breakthrough achievement: Hazard-free production of fluorochemicals<\/b>\u201d\u00a0 <\/b>published i<\/span>n Phys.org on 20th July 2023<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Researchers at the University of Oxford have achieved a groundbreaking breakthrough by developing a new technique to produce <\/span>fluorochemicals <\/b>without using hazardous hydrogen fluoride (HF) gas<\/span><\/p>\n

What are Fluorochemicals?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Fluorine is a highly reactive element that comes from a calcium salt called calcium fluoride, or fluorspar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fluorine is used to make fluorochemicals, which in turn are used to produce plastics, agrochemicals, lithium-ion batteries and drugs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the process of making Fluorochemicals and what are its drawbacks?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Process:<\/b> Fluorspar is mined and then treated with sulphuric acid at a high temperature to release hydrogen fluoride (HF).HF is then made to react with other compounds to create fluorochemicals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Drawback: <\/b>A major downside of this process is that HF is an extremely poisonous and corrosive liquid that irritates the eyes and respiratory tract even at low concentrations It also requires\u00a0<\/span>special transportation and storage requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Moreover, despite stringent safety regulations, HF spills have occurred numerous times in the last decades, sometimes with fatal accidents and detrimental environmental effects.<\/span><\/p>\n

What have the researchers developed to overcome this drawback in making Fluorochemicals?<\/b><\/b><\/h2>\n

Researchers took inspiration from how the human body makes bones and teeth through calcium phosphate biomineralisation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Based on this, they developed an innovative which involved grinding fluorspar with potassium phosphate in a ball-mill\u00a0<\/span>While fluorine is very reactive, calcium atoms prefer phosphorus even more, so the milling\u00a0<\/span>created calcium phosphate and another compound with fluorine atoms. They called this process <\/span>Fluoromix.<\/b><\/p>\n

When this Fluoromix was reacted with organic compounds, it could create around 50 fluorochemicals with up to 98% yield.<\/span><\/p>\n

Significance: <\/b>This new method has the potential to enhance safety and environmental impact, streamline the supply chain and reduce energy demands in the rapidly expanding global fluorochemical industry.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cNature inspires breakthrough achievement: Hazard-free production of fluorochemicals\u201d\u00a0 published in Phys.org on 20th July 2023 What is the News? Researchers at the University of Oxford have achieved a groundbreaking breakthrough by developing a new technique to produce fluorochemicals without using hazardous hydrogen fluoride (HF) gas What are… Continue reading Nature inspires breakthrough achievement: Hazard-free production of fluorochemicals<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[11842],"class_list":["post-253666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-phys","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703283502},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}