Microbiome composition and function in aquatic vertebrates: small organisms making big impacts on aquatic animal health

L Sehnal, E Brammer-Robbins… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Aquatic ecosystems are under increasing stress from global anthropogenic and natural
changes, including climate change, eutrophication, ocean acidification, and pollution. In this …

Building a bridge from solid wastes to solar fuels and chemicals via artificial photosynthesis

M Du, M Xing, S Kang, Y Ma, B Qiu, Y Chai - EcoMat, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Photoreforming (PR) is a process that splits water into hydrogen coupled with oxidation of
solid waste into value‐added products, which provides a way to mitigate resource depletion …

Manufacturing energy and greenhouse gas emissions associated with plastics consumption

SR Nicholson, NA Rorrer, AC Carpenter, GT Beckham - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Reducing the carbon intensity of plastics production by sourcing sustainable feedstocks
while simultaneously enabling effective polymer recycling represents a potential …

Ranking environmental degradation trends of plastic marine debris based on physical properties and molecular structure

K Min, JD Cuiffi, RT Mathers - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
As plastic marine debris continues to accumulate in the oceans, many important questions
surround this global dilemma. In particular, how many descriptors would be necessary to …

Raman spectroscopy for the analysis of microplastics in aquatic systems

V Nava, ML Frezzotti, B Leoni - Applied Spectroscopy, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Raman spectroscopy is gaining ground in the analysis of microplastics, especially due to its
high spatial resolution that allows the investigation of small plastic particles, whose numeric …

Identification of trace polystyrene nanoplastics down to 50 nm by the hyphenated method of filtration and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy based on silver …

Q Yang, S Zhang, J Su, S Li, X Lv, J Chen… - … science & technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanoplastics are emerging pollutants that pose potential threats to the environment and
organisms. However, in-depth research on nanoplastics has been hindered by the absence …

Bioretention cells remove microplastics from urban stormwater

K Smyth, J Drake, Y Li, C Rochman, T Van Seters… - Water research, 2021 - Elsevier
Microplastic pathways in the environment must be better understood to help select
appropriate mitigation strategies. In this 2-year long field study, microplastics were …

Microplastic uptake in commercial fishes from the Bohai Sea, China

Q Wang, X Zhu, C Hou, Y Wu, J Teng, C Zhang, H Tan… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Microplastic (MP) pollution has become an emerging global concern in marine
environments, but research on the uptake of MPs by commercial marine fish is relatively …

Microplastic serves as a potential vector for Cr in an in-vitro human digestive model

Y Liao, J Yang - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs), polymer particles capable of adsorbing heavy metals from ambient
environment, have been found in diverse human food resources. Through the consumption …

Microplastic ingestion ubiquitous in marine turtles

EM Duncan, AC Broderick, WJ Fuller… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Despite concerns regarding the environmental impacts of microplastics, knowledge of the
incidence and levels of synthetic particles in large marine vertebrates is lacking. Here, we …