important for the environmental fate of plastic particles. This study investigated the effect of
heteroaggregation between nano/microplastics and SS on the settling of aggregates. In
NaCl solutions (0.05–0.5 M), large SS (100–500 μm in diameter) significantly increased the
settling ratio of polystyrene nanoplastics (PSNPs) with an average diameter of 100 nm due
to the formation of PSNPs-SS aggregates. The settling ratio of the heteroaggregates …