Require an alternative way to analyze the chemical structure and polymer origin of microplastics without μ-FT-IR. Since μ-FT-IR is very expensive to run samples for analysis, any alternative approaches would be very useful.
Dear Moshiur Rahman, please check the following RG threads and the references therein. My Regards
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_we_measure_the_concentrations_of_micro_plastics_in_water2
Dear Moshiur Rahman, please check the following RG threads and the references therein. My Regards
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_we_measure_the_concentrations_of_micro_plastics_in_water2
Dear sir,
You may try "Micro Confocal Raman Imaging Hyperspectral Spectroscopy" which has database of around 25,000 of chemical compounds (including plastic polymers). If you have well-prepared sampls, then you can identify the microplastics composition.
Best regards,
Muhammad Adly R. Lubis
Hello Moshiur.
You don't need the micro FT-IR. A common FT-IR or IR would do the job as the polymers like PP, PE, PS, and PA have very characteristic bands.
Besides Infrared techniques, you can also use x-ray crystallography and thermometric techniques as Differential thermal analysis (DTA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC).
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