Biofouling and stability of synthetic polymers in sea water

By Trishul Artham, M. Sudhakar, R. Venkatesan, C. M. Nair, K. Murty, M. Doble. 2009

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Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, Ocean Engineering, Pollution

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Citations in the corpus

• Effects of biofouling on the sinking behavior of microplastics (2017, background): “The colonization speed and succession depend on polymer type, specific surface area (Ye and Andrady 1991), surface energy and roughness (Andrady 2011, Artham et al 2009, Kerr and Cowling 2003).”
• Microplastics Generation: Onset of Fragmentation of Polyethylene Films in Marine Environment Mesocosms (2017, methodology): “An increase in carbonyl index followed by a decrease was considered as an indication of biodegradation by Artham et al. (2009) which was verified by a weight loss of 1.6% for HDPE (1.9% for LDPE) after 12 months.”
• Adsorption of trace metals to plastic resin pellets in the marine environment. (2012, background): “Regarding the latter, accumulations of biofilms and hydrogeneous precipitates increase the charge, roughness, porosity and hydrophilicity of the surface (Artham et al., 2009).”
• Microbial degradation and deterioration of polyethylene – A review (2014, methodology): “Nevertheless, some studies have reported a reduction in the weight of samples determined either by gravimetric measurements (Hadad et al., 2005; Sivan et al., 2006; Sudhakar et al., 2008; Artham et al., 2009; Nowak et al., 2011; Tribedi and Sil, 2013) or by CO2 evolution from the samples (Albertsson”
• Interactions between microorganisms and marine microplastics: A call for research (2011, background): “, seasonality and the availability of oxygen) and metabolic interactions within plasticassociated biofilms (Bonhomme et al., 2003; Gilan et al., 2004; Artham et al., 2009).”
• Marine litter as habitat and dispersal vector (2015, background): “P P(S) fl Astudillo et al. (2009) Hydrolithon farinosum P Med fl Aliani and Molcard (2003)”
• Does size and buoyancy affect the long-distance transport of floating debris? (2015, background): “…drifting debris becomes fouled by a variety of marine organisms, including a biofilm of algae and other microscopic organisms as well as macroscopic epibiota (e.g. barnacles, bryozoa, polychaetes and seaweeds) (Ye and Andrady 1991, Railkin 2004, Artham et al 2009, Lobelle and Cunliffe 2011).”
• Association of metals with plastic production pellets in the marine environment. (2010, background): “A qualitative evaluation of the age of the pellets was ascertained from the carbonyl index; that is, the height of the carbonyl peak measured at 1717 cm 1 relative to the height of a reference peak (unaffected by weathering) measured at 1465 cm 1 (Artham et al., 2009).”