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

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Are we speaking the same language? Recommendations for a definition and categorization framework for plastic debris

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Human Consumption of Microplastics

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Microplastics in Freshwaters and Drinking Water: Critical Review and Assessment of Data Quality

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Microplastics in freshwater systems: A review on occurrence, environmental effects, and methods for microplastics detection

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Microplastics: Finding a consensus on the definition

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Synthetic fibers in atmospheric fallout: A source of microplastics in the environment?

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Microplastics in bivalves cultured for human consumption

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Current opinion: What is a nanoplastic?

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The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris

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Airborne microplastics: consequences to human health?

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Release of synthetic microplastic plastic fibres from domestic washing machines: Effects of fabric type and washing conditions

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A first overview of textile fibers, including microplastics, in indoor and outdoor environments

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A ubiquitous tire rubber–derived chemical induces acute mortality in coho salmon

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Microplastic pollution in deep-sea sediments

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Microplastics in freshwater ecosystems: what we know and what we need to know

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A Global Perspective on Microplastics

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Identification of microplastic in effluents of waste water treatment plants using focal plane array-based micro-Fourier-transform infrared imaging

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White and wonderful? Microplastics prevail in snow from the Alps to the Arctic

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Impacts of biofilm formation on the fate and potential effects of microplastic in the aquatic environment

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Wastewater treatment plants as a pathway for microplastics: Development of a new approach to sample wastewater-based microplastics

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Trophic transfer of microplastics and mixed contaminants in the marine food web and implications for human health

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Analysis of microplastics in water by micro-Raman spectroscopy: Release of plastic particles from different packaging into mineral water

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A new analytical approach for monitoring microplastics in marine sediments

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Methods for sampling and detection of microplastics in water and sediment: A critical review

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Microplastics as vector for heavy metal contamination from the marine environment

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Microplastics in sediments: A review of techniques, occurrence and effects

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Emergence of Nanoplastic in the Environment and Possible Impact on Human Health

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A New Method for Fast Preparation of Highly Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Active Silver Colloids at Room Temperature by Reduction of Silver Nitrate with Hydroxylamine Hydrochloride

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Occurrence and Spatial Distribution of Microplastics in River Shore Sediments of the Rhine-Main Area in Germany

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Plastic Teabags Release Billions of Microparticles and Nanoparticles into Tea

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Occurrence of microplastics in raw and treated drinking water

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Microplastic Pollution in Table Salts from China

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Tire wear particles in the aquatic environment - a review on generation, analysis, occurrence, fate and effects

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Analysis of environmental microplastics by vibrational microspectroscopy: FTIR, Raman or both?

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Enhanced desorption of persistent organic pollutants from microplastics under simulated physiological conditions

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Synthetic Polymer Contamination in Bottled Water

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AFM-IR: Technology and Applications in Nanoscale Infrared Spectroscopy and Chemical Imaging

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Microplastic particles in sediments of Lagoon of Venice, Italy: First observations on occurrence, spatial patterns and identification

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Arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic

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Identification of microplastics using Raman spectroscopy: Latest developments and future prospects

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Microplastics in seafood: Benchmark protocol for their extraction and characterization

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A rapid-screening approach to detect and quantify microplastics based on fluorescent tagging with Nile Red

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Turning microplastics into nanoplastics through digestive fragmentation by Antarctic krill

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Low numbers of microplastics detected in drinking water from ground water sources

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Nanoplastics are neither microplastics nor engineered nanoparticles

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High Quantities of Microplastic in Arctic Deep-Sea Sediments from the HAUSGARTEN Observatory

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Nanoplastic in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre

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Microplastics in the environment: Challenges in analytical chemistry - A review

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Lost, but Found with Nile Red: A Novel Method for Detecting and Quantifying Small Microplastics (1 mm to 20 μm) in Environmental Samples

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Low levels of microplastics (MP) in wild mussels indicate that MP ingestion by humans is minimal compared to exposure via household fibres fallout during a meal

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Brain damage and behavioural disorders in fish induced by plastic nanoparticles delivered through the food chain

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Simulating human exposure to indoor airborne microplastics using a Breathing Thermal Manikin

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Reaching New Heights in Plastic Pollution—Preliminary Findings of Microplastics on Mount Everest

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Microplastic in the surface waters of the Ross Sea (Antarctica): Occurrence, distribution and characterization by FTIR

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