Microplastics are ubiquitous in our environment, how can we determine the speciation of this pollutant?

Otitoju Francis Olawale @Otitoju-Olawale

10 April 2023 1 8K Report

do we have already available standard for microplastics in different media (water, air or land)?

how can we integrate this successfully based on the tropical environment?

Look into: https://www.witec.de/assets/Literature/Files/WITecParticleScoutBrochure.pdf

Anger Ph.M. et al. - Trends in Analytical Chemistry,2018,109,214-226 Raman microspectroscopy as a tool for microplastic particle analysis

Sobhani Z et al. - Analytica Chimica Acta,2019,1077,191-199 Identification and visualisation of microplastics by Raman mapping

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