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 …

Critical assessment of analytical methods for the harmonized and cost-efficient analysis of microplastics

S Primpke, SH Christiansen, W Cowger… - Applied …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Microplastics are of major concerns for society and is currently in the focus of legislators and
administrations. A small number of measures to reduce or remove primary sources of …

Methods for the analysis of submicrometer-and nanoplastic particles in the environment

C Schwaferts, R Niessner, M Elsner… - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Nanoplastic is an emerging topic of relevance in environmental science. The analytical
methods for microplastic have a particle size limit of a few micrometers so that new methods …

Separation, characterization and identification of microplastics and nanoplastics in the environment

W Fu, J Min, W Jiang, Y Li, W Zhang - Science of the total environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) have globally been detected in aquatic and marine environments, which
has raised scientific interests and public health concerns during the past decade. MPs are …

The micro-, submicron-, and nanoplastic hunt: A review of detection methods for plastic particles

J Caldwell, P Taladriz-Blanco, R Lehner, A Lubskyy… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Plastic particle pollution has been shown to be almost completely ubiquitous within our
surrounding environment. This ubiquity in combination with a variety of unique properties …

Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: technique and recent advances

P Verma - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
This review discusses a relatively new technique for optical nanoimaging at visible
wavelength, known as tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS). This technique relies on …

Raman tweezers for small microplastics and nanoplastics identification in seawater

R Gillibert, G Balakrishnan, Q Deshoules… - … science & technology, 2019 - ACS Publications
Our understanding of the fate and distribution of micro-and nano-plastics in the marine
environment is limited by the intrinsic difficulties of the techniques currently used for the …

Exploring the structure and formation mechanism of amyloid fibrils by Raman spectroscopy: a review

D Kurouski, RP Van Duyne, IK Lednev - Analyst, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Amyloid fibrils are β-sheet rich protein aggregates that are strongly associated with various
neurodegenerative diseases. Raman spectroscopy has been broadly utilized to investigate …

[PDF][PDF] Raman spectroscopy, review

P Rostron, S Gaber, D Gaber - laser, 2016 - researchgate.net
Raman spectroscopy is a branch of vibrational spectroscopy, which allows an easy
interpretation and highly sensitive structural identification of trace amounts of chemicals …

Nanoscale chemical imaging using tip‐enhanced Raman spectroscopy: a critical review

T Schmid, L Opilik, C Blum… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Methods for chemical analysis at the nanometer scale are crucial for understanding and
characterizing nanostructures of modern materials and biological systems. Tip‐enhanced …