Nanoplastics formed during the mechanical breakdown of daily-use polystyrene products

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Current opinion: What is a nanoplastic?

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Microplastic Pollution in Table Salts from China

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Characterisation of nanoplastics during the degradation of polystyrene

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Microplastics in commercial bivalves from China

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Size-Dependent Effects of Micro Polystyrene Particles in the Marine Copepod <i>Tigriopus japonicus</i>

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Fate of nano- and microplastic in freshwater systems: A modeling study

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Nanoplastic in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre

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

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The presence of microplastics in commercial salts from different countries

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Effects of micro- and nanoplastics on aquatic ecosystems: Current research trends and perspectives

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Effects of nanoplastics and microplastics on toxicity, bioaccumulation, and environmental fate of phenanthrene in fresh water

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Nano-plastics in the aquatic environment

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Altered Behavior, Physiology, and Metabolism in Fish Exposed to Polystyrene Nanoparticles

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Reducing Uncertainty and Confronting Ignorance about the Possible Impacts of Weathering Plastic in the Marine Environment

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Food Chain Transport of Nanoparticles Affects Behaviour and Fat Metabolism in Fish

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Horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2011

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Distribution of Nanoparticles in the See-through Medaka ( Oryzias latipes )

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Trophic transfer and individual impact of nano-sized polystyrene in a four-species freshwater food chain

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Marine plastic litter: the unanalyzed nano-fraction

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Wild gudgeons (Gobio gobio) from French rivers are contaminated by microplastics: Preliminary study and first evidence

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A horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2010

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A comparison of nanoparticle and fine particle uptake by Daphnia magna

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ATR-FTIR spectroscopy as a tool to probe surface adsorption on nanoparticles at the liquid–solid interface in environmentally and biologically relevant media

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Exploring uptake and biodistribution of polystyrene (nano)particles in zebrafish embryos at different developmental stages

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Sirtinol promotes PEPCK1 degradation and inhibits gluconeogenesis by inhibiting deacetylase SIRT2

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Global styrene oligomers monitoring as new chemical contamination from polystyrene plastic marine pollution

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Recent advances on the characterization of nanoparticles using infrared spectroscopy

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Regional distribution of styrene analogues generated from polystyrene degradation along the coastlines of the North-East Pacific Ocean and Hawaii

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Uptake, excretion and toxicity of nano-sized latex particles on medaka (Oryzias latipes) embryos and larvae

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Determination of migration monomer styrene from GPPS (general purpose polystyrene) and HIPS (high impact polystyrene) cups to hot drinks

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Monitoring of styrene oligomers as indicators of polystyrene plastic pollution in the North-West Pacific Ocean

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Nanoplastics are neither microplastics nor engineered nanoparticles

Gigault, J., El Hadri, H., Nguyen, B., Grassl, B., Rowenczyk, L., Tufenkji, N., Feng, S., & Wiesner, M. (2021) · Nature Nanotechnology · doi:10.1038/s41565-021-00886-4 · Cited by 954 · see citing works

Release of hazardous nanoplastic contaminants due to microplastics fragmentation under shear stress forces

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The fate of plastic in the ocean environment – a minireview

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Multi-endpoint toxicological assessment of polystyrene nano- and microparticles in different biological models in vitro

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Degradation-fragmentation of marine plastic waste and their environmental implications: A critical review

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Nanoplastic from mechanically degraded primary and secondary microplastics for environmental assessments

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Solving the plastic problem: from cradle to grave, to reincarnation

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Challenges in the search for nanoplastics in the environment—A critical review from the polymer science perspective

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Deciphering the toxic effects of polystyrene nanoparticles on erythropoiesis at single-cell resolution

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Thermal insulation products of buildings - In-situ formed products from loose-fill expanded polystyrene (EPS) beads and bonded expanded polystyrene beads

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Lightweight High Strength Concrete with Expanded Polystyrene Beads

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Study of the structure and properties of paired polymers based on polytrichlorobutadiene and polystyrene

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Research on Adhesives made from Foamed Polystyrene Wastes

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