Increasing ionic strength and valency of cations enhance sorption through hydrophobic interactions of PFAS with soil surfaces
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As the size of microplastics and the chain length of PFAS increase, their adsorption increases due to larger binding surfaces for adsorption to occur.
“Additionally, as the size of microplastics (Padervand et al., 2020) and length of PFAS (Cai et al., 2022) increase so does their adsorption due to larger binding surfaces for adsorption to occur.”
From Review of emerging contaminants in green stormwater infrastructure: antibiotic resistance genes, microplastics, tire wear particles, PFAS, and temperature (2024) · cites this paper as Cai et al., 2022
Section 3.1 reports that PFAS sorption to soil increased with perfluorocarbon chain length. It attributes the increase to greater hydrophobicity with each added CF₂ group, not to larger binding surfaces. The separate microplastics claim is cited to Padervand et al., not Cai et al. (LLM, conf=0.88)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredNonpolar ARGs, microplastics, tire wear particles, and PFAS can be adsorbed quickly because they are hydrophobic and tend to have an affinity towards hydrophobic media pores or to adsorb into amendment compounds.
“Nonpolar ARGs (Christou et al., 2017), micro plastics (Padervand et al., 2020), tire wear particles (Huang et al., 2023), and PFAS (Cai et al., 2022) can be adsorbed quickly as these contami nants are hydrophobic and tend to have an affinity towards hydrophobic media pores or to adsorb into amendment compounds.”
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