A new analytical approach for monitoring microplastics in marine sediments.
By Marie-Theres Nuelle, Jens H. Dekiff, Dominique Remy, E. Fries. Environmental Pollution, 2014
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Subfields: Biomaterials, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution
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Citations in the corpus
- Large microplastic particles in sediments of tributaries of the River Thames, UK - Abundance, sources and methods for effective quantification. (2017, background): “58 g cm-3 (Nuelle et al., 2014), lower than the density of the ZnCl2 solution, > 1.”
- Microplastics in sediments: A review of techniques, occurrence and effects. (2015, methodology): “…methods and techniques are being developed worldwide 209 (Claessens et al., 2013; Fries et al., 2013; Harrison et al., 2012; Imhof et al., 2012; Nuelle et al., 2014) 210 it is clear that in order to completely understand the distribution of microplastics in the marine 211 environment, a…”
- Extraction of microplastic from biota: recommended acidic digestion destroys common plastic polymers (2017, background): “, 2013), or perchloric acid (HClO4; Zoeter Vanpoucke, 2015); oxidants such as hydrogen peroxide (H2O2; Nuelle et al., 2014); or other bleaching agents such as sodium hypochlorite (NaClO; Sørensen et al.”
- Isolation of microplastics in biota-rich seawater samples and marine organisms (2014, background): “Similarly, while many plastics are resistant to hydrogen peroxide, Nuelle, et al.16 recently demonstrated that 35% H2O2 can result in significant (15.9 – 17.2”
- Microplastics in fisheries and aquaculture (2017, neutral): “This document will not go into detail as there is ample literature available on methods for extraction of microplastics from water samples (surface and water column), benthic sediment samples and beach samples (e.g. Hanke et al., 2013; Hidalgo-Ruz et al., 2012; Masura et al., 2015; Nuelle et al. 201”
- Microplastic Contamination in Freshwater Environments: A Review, Focusing on Interactions with Sediments and Benthic Organisms (2020, methodology): “The polymers only changed slightly, becoming more transparent, smaller, or thinner when using 30% H2O2 [51].”