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Front Bioeng Biotechnol
October 2023
Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
Micro- and nano-plastics (MNPs) are global contaminants of growing concern to the ecosystem and human health. In-the-field detection and identification of environmental micro- and nano-plastics (e-MNPs) is critical for monitoring the spread and effects of e-MNPs but is challenging due to the dearth of suitable analytical techniques, especially in the sub-micron size range. Here we show that thin gold films patterned with a dense, hexagonal array of ring-shaped nanogaps (RSNs) can be used as active substrates for the sensitive detection of micro- and nano-plastics by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), requiring only small sample volumes and no significant sample preparation.
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July 2023
Macromolecular Chemistry and Bavarian Polymer Institute, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany.
Polystyrene (PS) is an important model polymer for the investigation of effects of microplastic (MP) and nanoplastic (NP) particles on living systems. Aqueous dispersions of PS MP or NP contain residual monomers of styrene. In consequence, it is not clear if the effects observed in standard (cyto)toxicity studies are evoked by the polymer (MP/NP) particle or by residual monomers.
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June 2023
Department of Biology, University of Florence, Via Romana 17, 50125 Florence, Italy. Electronic address:
Talitrid amphipods are an important component of detritus web, playing a key role in the fragmentation of organic matters of marine and terrestrial origin, and it is well known that sandhoppers ingest microplastics. To assess the effective consumption of bioplastics and their effects on survival rate and on pollutants transfer (i.e.
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January 2023
ZIK plasmatis, Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP), Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 2, 17489, Greifswald, Germany.
Nano- and microplastic particles (NMP) are strong environmental contaminants affecting marine ecosystems and human health. The negligible use of biodegradable plastics and the lack of knowledge about plastic uptake, accumulation, and functional consequences led us to investigate the short- and long-term effects in freshly isolated skin cells from mice. Using fluorescent NMP of several sizes (200 nm to 6 µm), efficient cellular uptake was observed, causing, however, only minor acute toxicity as metabolic activity and apoptosis data suggested, albeit changes in intracellular reactive species and thiol levels were observed.
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December 2022
Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, 117543, Singapore. Electronic address:
Many organisms are consuming food contaminated with micro- and nanoparticles of plastics, some of which absorb persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from the environment and acting as carrier vectors for increasing the bioavailability in living organisms. We recently reported that polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) nanoparticles at low concentrations are not toxic to animal models tested. In this study, the toxicity of diphenylamine (DPA) incorporated PMMA nanoparticles are assessed using barnacle larvae as a model organism.
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