Characterization and Quantification of Microplastics

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394273171.ch5" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394273171.ch5</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781394273171.ch5" target="_blank" >10.1002/9781394273171.ch5</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Characterization and Quantification of Microplastics

Original language description

Today, microplastics are contained in soil, air, and all types of water, including groundwater and drinking water. Characterization and analysis of microplastics is a very complicated set of steps because there are mixtures of different kinds of polymers, their size varies on a huge scale, and they are in water samples combined with the inorganic materials (sand) remains of animals and plants. Organic materials or natural polymers are difficult to distinguish from synthetic polymers, creating microplastics. Common microplastics are mostly based on partly degraded polyolefins, which float on water due to their low density. The largest share of microplastics in surface and groundwater is made up of fibre fragments released from textile products. Almost a third of microplastics are released mainly during washing. These fibrous microplastics are often results of abrasion and their properties are far from plastics of the same chemical nature. This chapter is mainly oriented to present basic steps of microplastics collection, sample preparation, purification, and analysis by standard and advanced instrumental methods. The fibrous microplastics forms, morphology and extraordinary properties are discussed, because they are potential sources of problems dealing with their occurrence.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20503 - Textiles; including synthetic dyes, colours, fibres (nanoscale materials to be 2.10; biomaterials to be 2.9)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Textile Microplastics in the Environment Sources Impacts and Solutions

ISBN

9781394273140

Number of pages of the result

46

Pages from-to

93-139

Number of pages of the book

336

Publisher name

Wiley

Place of publication

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UT code for WoS chapter

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