Chemical analysis of microplastics and nanoplastics: challenges, advanced methods, and perspectives

NP Ivleva - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Microplastics and nanoplastics have become emerging particulate anthropogenic pollutants
and rapidly turned into a field of growing scientific and public interest. These tiny plastic …

Contributions of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in microplastic pollution research: A review

S Veerasingam, M Ranjani… - Critical Reviews in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy has been extensively used in microplastic
(MP) pollution research since 2004. The aim of this review is to discuss and highlight the …

Microplastics in fish and fishmeal: an emerging environmental challenge?

CJ Thiele, MD Hudson, AE Russell, M Saluveer… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Microplastics are contaminants of emerging concern; they are ingested by marine biota.
About a quarter of global marine fish landings is used to produce fishmeal for animal and …

Analysis of microplastics in drinking water and other clean water samples with micro-Raman and micro-infrared spectroscopy: minimum requirements and best …

D Schymanski, BE Oßmann, N Benismail… - Analytical and …, 2021 - Springer
Microplastics are a widespread contaminant found not only in various natural habitats but
also in drinking waters. With spectroscopic methods, the polymer type, number, size, and …

Critical assessment of analytical methods for the harmonized and cost-efficient analysis of microplastics

S Primpke, SH Christiansen, W Cowger… - Applied …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Microplastics are of major concerns for society and is currently in the focus of legislators and
administrations. A small number of measures to reduce or remove primary sources of …

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 …

μATR-FTIR spectral libraries of plastic particles (FLOPP and FLOPP-e) for the analysis of microplastics

H De Frond, R Rubinovitz, CM Rochman - Analytical Chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
Raman spectral libraries specific to microplastics demonstrated improved spectral matching
results when weathered plastics and a variety of particle colors and morphologies were …

Increasing the accessibility for characterizing microplastics: introducing new application-based and spectral libraries of plastic particles (SLoPP and SLoPP-E)

K Munno, H De Frond, B O'Donnell… - Analytical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
As smaller particle sizes are increasingly included in microplastic research, it is critical to
chemically characterize microparticles to identify whether particles are indeed microplastics …

Toward the systematic identification of microplastics in the environment: evaluation of a new independent software tool (siMPle) for spectroscopic analysis

S Primpke, RK Cross, SM Mintenig… - Applied …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Microplastics (MP) are ubiquitous within the environment, but the approaches to analysis of
this contaminant are currently quite diverse, with a number of analytical methods available …

Occurrence and characteristics of microplastics in surface road dust in Kusatsu (Japan), Da Nang (Vietnam), and Kathmandu (Nepal)

S Yukioka, S Tanaka, Y Nabetani, Y Suzuki… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Microplastics (MPs, plastics< 5 mm) are a growing concern in ecosystems, being
found in the soil and water environment. One of the primary sources of MPs has been …