Characteristics of nano-plastics in bottled drinking water
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Plastic pollution in water is threatening the environment and human health. Previous relevant studies mainly focus on macro and micro plastic pollutions and their characteristics. Little is known about the extent and characteristics of nano-scale plastics in our drinking water systems, mainly due to difficulties in their isolation and analysis. These nano-plastics may pose higher risk to human health than micro-plastics. Here we report the collection and analysis of organic nanoparticles from commercial bottled water of two brands. Novel nano-plastic particle imaging and molecular structure analysis techniques have been applied. The findings show the existence of organic nanoparticles, and a likely source has been identified to be the degradation of plastic water bottles.
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Information is demanded to address the intrinsic heterogeneity of nanoplastics contamination at a single-particle level.
“Information is demanded to address the intrinsic heterogeneity of nanoplastics contamination at a single-particle level (SI Appendix, Fig. S18a) (63, 64).”
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Section 3 (p. 7) reports different nanoparticle size groups in bottled-water samples, and Section 2.2 (p. 6) describes imaging particle morphology. These support variation among particles, but the paper does not call for information at the single-particle level to address intrinsic heterogeneity; the Introduction (p. 4) instead emphasizes bulk concentration for impact assessment. (LLM, conf=0.78)
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- Authors
- Huang, Y., Wong, K. K., Li, W., Zhao, H., Wang, T., Stanescu, S., Boult, S., van Dongen, B., Mativenga, P., & Li, L.
- Affiliations
- University of Manchester (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Mativenga, Paul
- Li, Lin
- Venue
- Journal of Hazardous Materials
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022-02
- Volume
- 424
- Issue
- Pt C
- Pages
- 127404
- ISSN
- 0304-3894 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3204363196
- Cited by
- 84
- References
- 48
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 9
- FWCI
- 2.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Hazardous Materials (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/S025200/1)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Environmental and Analytical Chemistry Studies
- Keywords
- nanoplastics, bottled water, plastic pollution, organic nanoparticles, human health risk, particle imaging, molecular structure analysis
- MeSH terms
- Microplastics, Environmental Pollution, Humans, Plastics, Water Pollutants, Chemical, Drinking Water
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