Evaluation of nanoplastics toxicity to the human placenta in systems

CE Enyoh, CE Duru, PE Ovuoraye, Q Wang - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Following the discovery of plastics in the human placenta, this study evaluated the toxicity of
ten different nanoplastics (NPs) in the human placenta. Since the placenta performs …

Efficient photocatalytic degradation of microplastics by constructing a novel Z-scheme Fe-doped BiO2− x/BiOI heterojunction with full-spectrum response: Mechanistic …

X Liu, Z Yang, H Liu, Y Li, G Zhang - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Recently, microplastics (MPs) have garnered significant attention as a challenging emerging
pollutant to address. Here, a full-spectrum light-driven Fe-doping BiO 2− x/BiOI (FBI) Z …

Adsorption and toxicity characteristics of ciprofloxacin on differently prepared polyethylene terephthalate microplastics from both experimental and theoretical …

CE Enyoh, Q Wang - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Plastic debris is commonplace in aquatic environments and is a means of transportation for
several new contaminants, including ciprofloxacin (CIP), which also pose risks to …

Optimizing the efficient removal of ciprofloxacin from aqueous solutions by polyethylene terephthalate microplastics using multivariate statistical approach

CE Enyoh, Q Wang, S Lu - Chemical Engineering Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Emerging pollutants such as ciprofloxacin (CIP) and microplastics (MPs) has been found in
environment, as a result of their widespread usage. In this study, the use of different …

Soil Microplastic Pollution and Microbial Breeding Techniques for Green Degradation: A Review

Z Xiong, Y Zhang, X Chen, A Sha, W Xiao, Y Luo… - Microorganisms, 2024 - mdpi.com
Microplastics (MPs), found in many places around the world, are thought to be more
detrimental than other forms of plastics. At present, physical, chemical, and biological …

Oxo-Additives for Polyolefin Degradation: Kinetics and Mechanism

EA Mamin, PV Pantyukhov, AA Olkhov - Macromol, 2023 - mdpi.com
This review considers the recent investigations in the scope of biodegradability of synthetic
polymers, spanning polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), and their corresponding …

Thermal degradation evaluation of polyethylene terephthalate microplastics: Insights from kinetics and machine learning algorithms using non-isoconversional TGA …

CE Enyoh, PE Ovuoraye, MH Rabin, W Qingyue… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The thermal stability of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) microplastics (MPs) is crucial in
diverse applications, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of their behavior under …

Impact of treatment chemicals on the morphology and molecular structure of microfibers and microplastic films in wastewater

P Kaur Brar, A Dhir, B Örmeci - Water Science & Technology, 2023 - iwaponline.com
This study investigated the impact of commonly used treatment chemicals on the
morphology and molecular structure of microfibers (MFs) and microplastic films (MPFs) to …

Surface chemistry of degraded polyethylene terephthalate (PET): Insights from reactive molecular dynamics study

T Panczyk, K Nieszporek, P Wolski - Applied Surface Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) samples were analyzed using reactive molecular
dynamics simulations. These samples consisted of polymer molecules with a molecular …

Automated Classification of Undegraded and Aged Polyethylene Terephthalate Microplastics from ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy using Machine Learning Algorithms

CE Enyoh, Q Wang - Journal of Polymers and the Environment, 2024 - Springer
Automated analysis of microplastics is essential due to the labor-intensive, time-consuming,
and error-prone nature of manual methods. Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform …