{"id":10741,"date":"2026-01-15T14:28:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/?p=10741"},"modified":"2026-01-15T14:31:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:31:01","slug":"dusrc-scientist-lee-ferguson-refines-pfas-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/dusrc-scientist-lee-ferguson-refines-pfas-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"DUSRC Scientists, Lee Ferguson and Abbey Joyce, Analyze PFAS Nanoparticles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/files\/2026\/01\/Lee-Ferguson_Lab-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"677\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/files\/2026\/01\/Lee-Ferguson_Lab-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/files\/2026\/01\/Lee-Ferguson_Lab-1.jpg 677w, https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/files\/2026\/01\/Lee-Ferguson_Lab-1-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo Credit: Duke University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Lee Ferguson, PI of the DUSRC Analytical Chemistry Core (ACC), and Dr. Abbey Joyce, Manager of the ACC, recently published research in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.estlett.5c01014\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.estlett.5c01014\">Environmental Science &amp; Technology Letters<\/a> about how very small &#8220;precursor&#8221; PFAS from industrial sources, which do not show up in standard PFAS analysis, can break down during the wastewater treatment process into different, better-known, PFAS compounds. This study has ramifications for PFAS waste discharge reporting requirements for industries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More on this research can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/pratt.duke.edu\/news\/uncovering-the-source-of-widespread-forever-chemical-contamination-in-north-carolina\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/pratt.duke.edu\/news\/uncovering-the-source-of-widespread-forever-chemical-contamination-in-north-carolina\/\">Pratt School of Engineering<\/a> website and in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northcarolinahealthnews.org\/2025\/12\/05\/hidden-pfas-pollution-uncovered-in-nc-as-epa-proposes-reporting-rollback\/?utm_source=Weekly+Update&amp;utm_campaign=8ae894416c-de-digest-1-08-26&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-a6c426677e-635355171\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.northcarolinahealthnews.org\/2025\/12\/05\/hidden-pfas-pollution-uncovered-in-nc-as-epa-proposes-reporting-rollback\/?utm_source=Weekly+Update&amp;utm_campaign=8ae894416c-de-digest-1-08-26&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-a6c426677e-635355171\">NC Health News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Credit: Duke University Dr. Lee Ferguson, PI of the DUSRC Analytical Chemistry Core (ACC), and Dr. Abbey Joyce, Manager of the ACC, recently published research in the journal Environmental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3905,"featured_media":10743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[412,425,249,262],"class_list":{"0":"post-10741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-lee-ferguson","9":"tag-abbey-joyce","10":"tag-acc","11":"tag-pfas","12":"czr-hentry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10746,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10741\/revisions\/10746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}