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The missing small microplastics: easily generated from weathered plastic pieces in labs but hardly detected in natural environments

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: Plentiful small microplastics and nanoplastics can easily generate from weathered plastics, but few small microplastics and no nanoplatics could be detected in surrounding sediments, possibly due to a lack of suitable detection approach.

Source: Environmental Science Advances

DOI: 10.1039/d3va00291h

Authors: Fangni Du, Huiwen Cai, Lei Su, Wei Wang, Liwu Zhang, Chengjun Sun, Beizhan Yan, Huahong Shi

Institutions: State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Fudan University, Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, Ministry of Natural Resources, First Institute of Oceanography, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

Language: English

Topic: Microplastics and Plastic Pollution

Subfield: Pollution

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Responsible consumption and production

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: National Natural Science Foundation of China, East China Normal University

Awards: G175430809, G2183113701, G6987667629

OpenAlex ID: W4389635783

FWCI: 1.129

Cites: 36

Cited by: 17

Related to: 10