New methodologies for the detection, identification, and quantification of microplastics and their environmental degradation by-products.

ABSTRACT: Sampling, separation, detection, and characterization of microplastics (MPs) dispersed in natural water bodies and ecosystems is a challenging and critical issue for a better understanding of the hazards for the environment posed by such nearly ubiquitous and still largely unknown form of pollution. There is still the need for exhaustive, reliable, accurate, reasonably fast, and cost-efficient analytical protocols allowing the quantification not only of MPs but also of nanoplastics (NPs) and of the harmful molecular pollutants that may result from degrading plastics. Here a set of newly developed analytical protocols, integrated with specialized techniques such as pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS), for the accurate and selective determination of the polymers most co

SUBMITTER: Castelvetro V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8384832 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature