Leachate from municipal solid waste landfills: A neglected source of microplastics in the environment

H Sun, J Hu, Y Wu, H Gong, N Zhu, H Yuan - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
Over the past decade or so, microplastics (MPs) have received increasing attention due to
their ubiquity and potential risk to the environment. Waste plastics usually end up in landfills …

Biophotoelectrochemistry for the treatment of emerging contaminants

J Hu, M Chen, WZ Gu, WE Deng, MQ Hong… - Science China …, 2024 - Springer
Emerging contaminants (ECs) of significant concern are widely distributed throughout the
environment due to various industrial practices and human activities. Given the alarming …

Photophoretic MoS2–Fe2O3 Piranha Micromotors for Collective Dynamic Microplastics Removal

V de la Asunción-Nadal, E Solano… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Microplastics are highly persistent emerging pollutants that are widely distributed in the
environment. We report the use of MoS2@ Fe2O3 core–shell micromotors prepared by a …

Polyoxometalate nanocluster-infused triple IPN hydrogels for excellent microplastic removal from contaminated water: detection, photodegradation, and upcycling

S Dutta, A Misra, S Bose - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Microplastic (MP) pollution pervades global ecosystems, originating from improper plastic
disposal and fragmentation due to factors like hydrolysis and biodegradation. These minute …

Hydroborative Depolymerization of Polyesters and Polycarbonates to Diols Catalyzed by Heterogeneous Lanthanum Materials La(CH2C6H4NMe2-o)3@SBA-15

Y Ma, Z Zhao, J Chen, Y Chen, B Wang… - Inorganic Chemistry, 2024 - ACS Publications
Chemical recycling is a promising strategy to establish a circular plastic economy, and it is
still in an early stage of development. In this work, the reductive depolymerization of …

Are you drowned in microplastic pollution? A brief insight on the current knowledge for early career researchers developing novel remediation strategies

NML Nohara, MC Ariza-Tarazona, ER Triboni… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Microplastics composed of different polymers with various shapes, within a vast
granulometric distribution (1 μm-5 mm) and with a wide variety of physicochemical surface …

A scalable method to model large suspensions of colloidal phoretic particles with arbitrary shapes

B Delmotte, FB Usabiaga - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.05337, 2024 - arxiv.org
Phoretic colloids self-propel thanks to surface flows generated in response to surface
gradients (thermal, electrical, or chemical), that are self-induced and/or generated by other …

Microplastics: The imperative influencer in blueprint of blue economy

A Gupta, A Ghosh, A Yadav, A Kirti, S Jena… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The burgeoning issue of microplastic pollution in marine ecosystems has emerged as a
significant concern, presently multifaceted difficulty to the sustainability and prosperity of the …

[HTML][HTML] Light-driven degradation of microplastics: mechanisms, technologies, and future directions

Y Wu, R Yi, Y Wang, C Zhang, J Zheng, P Ning… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2025 - Elsevier
The widespread production of plastics has inflicted profound damage on our ecological
systems, with microplastics (MPs)—minuscule particles resulting from plastic degradation …

Unveiling the Microplastics: Sources, Distribution, Toxicological Impacts, Extraction Methods, Degradational Strategies, Paving the Path to a Sustainable Future

A Dhaundiyal, A Mittal - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2024 - Springer
The issue of microplastics (MPs) which are pervasive and ubiquitous pollutants, has given
rise to a pressing need for a thorough understanding of them and the development of …