The widely used dry-cleaning and degreasing solvent perc can be converted to useful chemicals by a new clean, safe and inexpensive procedure. The discovery using on-demand UV activation may open the ...

Cities around the Valley are wrestling with a legacy of environmental contamination: a chemical used for decades by dry cleaners. Now suspected of causing cancer, the chemical has permeated ...

Anaheim, Calif. — The medical division of MicroCare Corp. has added Tergo-brand metal cleaning fluid for degreasing parts and defluxing circuit boards. MicroCare developed the cleaner in October 2015, ...

Photo-on-demand one-pot synthesis provides an environment in which harmless source materials such as the dry-cleaning agent perc can be upcycled to useful products safely, cheaply and in an ...