Trapping and detecting nanoplastics by MXene-derived oxide microrobots.

ABSTRACT: Nanoplastic pollution, the final product of plastic waste fragmentation in the environment, represents an increasing concern for the scientific community due to the easier diffusion and higher hazard associated with their small sizes. Therefore, there is a pressing demand for effective strategies to quantify and remove nanoplastics in wastewater. This work presents the "on-the-fly" capture of nanoplastics in the three-dimensional (3D) space by multifunctional MXene-derived oxide microrobots and their further detection. A thermal annealing process is used to convert Ti₃C₂T_x MXene into photocatalytic multi-layered TiO₂, followed by the deposition of a Pt layer and the decoration with magnetic γ-Fe₂O₃ nanoparticles. The MXene-d

SUBMITTER: Urso M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9218121 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature