Nature inspires breakthrough achievement: Hazard-free production of fluorochemicals

A team of chemists has developed an entirely new method for generating critically important fluorochemicals that bypasses the hazardous product hydrogen fluoride (HF) gas. The findings, published in Science, could achieve an immense impact in improving the safety and carbon footprint of a growing global industry. The srticle is titled "Fluorochemicals from fluorspar via a phosphate-enabled mechanochemical process that bypasses HF."