Chemical analysis of microplastics and nanoplastics: challenges, advanced methods, and perspectives

NP Ivleva - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Microplastics and nanoplastics have become emerging particulate anthropogenic pollutants
and rapidly turned into a field of growing scientific and public interest. These tiny plastic …

Microplastics in African ecosystems: Current knowledge, abundance, associated contaminants, techniques, and research needs

OS Alimi, OO Fadare, ED Okoffo - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite Africa ranking top in mismanaged plastic waste, there is insufficient data on the
extent of microplastics and its interaction with other contaminants in its ecosystems …

How much are microplastics harmful to the health of amphibians? A study with pristine polyethylene microplastics and Physalaemus cuvieri

AP da Costa Araújo, NFS de Melo… - Journal of hazardous …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) are critical emerging pollutants found in the environment worldwide;
however, its toxicity in aquatic in amphibians, is poorly known. Thus, the aim of the present …

Microplastic's story

C Schmid, L Cozzarini, E Zambello - Marine pollution bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
The problem of microplastic pollution is now the order of the day in front of everyone's eyes
affecting the environment and the health of leaving creature. This work aims to retrace the …

Current advances in microplastic contamination in aquatic sediment: analytical methods, global occurrence, and effects on elemental cycling

Y Li, M Wu, H Li, H Xue, J Tao, M Li, F Wang… - TrAC Trends in …, 2023 - Elsevier
The ubiquitous presence of microplastics in aquatic sediment represents an anthropogenic
stressor on benthic organisms and elemental cycling. However, a comprehensive …

Overview of African water resources contamination by contaminants of emerging concern

Z Shehu, GWA Nyakairu, E Tebandeke… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
This review look at several classes of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in
conventional and non-conventional water resources across the African continent's five …

Study of microplastics with semicrystalline and amorphous structure identification by TGA and DSC.

D Sorolla-Rosario, J Llorca-Porcel… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The potential of thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry
(DSC) to identify, distinguish among the most relevant microplastics, and quantification, has …

Prevalence and risk assessment of microplastics in the Nile Delta estuaries:“The Plastic Nile” revisited

S Shabaka, MN Moawad, MIA Ibrahim… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent research is directed toward studying plastic pollution in rivers, and estuaries due to
the importance of freshwater bodies in all aspects of life. The river deltas and estuaries are …

Identification and quantification of microplastics in effluents of wastewater treatment plant by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)

J Hernández Fernández, H Cano, Y Guerra… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this research, the presence of microplastics was detected through a differential scanning
calorimetry (DSC) analysis of three wastewater treatment plants. One of these plants applied …

Microplastics in the coastal environment of Mediterranean and the impact on sustainability level

G Chatziparaskeva, I Papamichael… - Sustainable Chemistry and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The effects emanated from Microplastic Pollution (MPs) on human health, the environment,
economy, society have been explored in the past with little to no collective knowledge …