Esau De la Vega-Camarillo, Jorge Arreola‐Vargas, Saurav Kumar Mathur, Rashmi Singla, Smriti Shankar, Cory Klemasevich, Joshua Andrew Santos, Sanjay Antony-Babu, Won Bo Shim
chain shortening. Shannon diversity correlated positively with degradation performance (r = 0.87 for PFOS), indicating that community complexity enhances transformation efficiency. This work establishes nanowell array-guided community assembly as a reproducible strategy for developing PFAS bioremediation consortia and provides evidence consistent with growth-associated defluorination without co-substrate amendment; the stoichiometric relationship between PFAS carbon and observed biomass warrants further investigation.