Chemical Analysis of Microplastics and Nanoplastics: Challenges, Advanced Methods, and Perspectives

🤖 Plain-English Summary

Microplastics and nanoplastics have become emerging particulate anthropogenic pollutants and rapidly turned into a field of growing scientific and public interest. A special attention is paid to the approaches for reliable analysis of nanoplastics.

🔑 Key Findings

• These tiny plastic particles are found in the environment all around the globe as well as in drinking water and food, raising concerns about their impacts on the environment and human health.
• To adequately address these issues, reliable information on the ambient concentrations of microplastics and nanoplastics is needed.
• However, micro- and nanoplastic particles are extremely complex and diverse in terms of their size, shape, density, polymer type, surface properties, etc.

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