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Adsorption of Copper by Naturally and Artificially Aged Polystyrene Microplastics and Subsequent Release in Simulated Gastrointestinal Fluid
Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Thibault Béranger Masset, Lu Zhou
Microplastics, especially aged microplastics can become vectors of metals from environment to organisms with potential negative effects on food chain. However, a few studies focused on the bioavailability of adsorbed metals and most studies related to aged ...
2024Inhalation of Microplastics—A Toxicological Complexity
Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Myriam Borgatta
Humans are chronically exposed to airborne microplastics (MPs) by inhalation. Various types of polymer particles have been detected in lung samples, which could pose a threat to human health. Inhalation toxicological studies are crucial for assessing the e ...
2024Fate and effects of microplastic particles in a periphyton-grazer system
Kristin Schirmer, Ahmed Tlili, Renata Behra
In the aquatic environment, microplastic particles (MP) can accumulate in microbial communities that cover submerged substrata, i.e. in periphyton. Despite periphyton being the essential food source for grazers in the benthic zones, MP transfer from periph ...
Elsevier Sci Ltd2024Parity in bacterial communities and resistomes: Microplastic and natural organic particles in the Tyrrhenian Sea
Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Sylvain Coudret
Petroleum-based microplastic particles (MPs) are carriers of antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) in aquatic environments, influencing the selection and spread of antimicrobial resistance. This research characterized MP and natural organic particle (NOP) ...
2024Adsorption of Copper by Naturally and Artificially Aged Microplastics and Subsequent Release in Simulated Gastrointestinal Fluid
Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Thibault Béranger Masset, Lu Zhou
Microplastics, especially aged microplastics can become vectors of heavy metals from environment to organisms with potential negative effects on food chain. However, a few studies focused on the bioavailability of adsorbed metals and most studies related t ...
ChemRxiv2023Improved marine debris detection in satellite imagery with automatic refinement of coarse hand annotations
Devis Tuia, Marc Conrad Russwurm, Elif Dilge Gül
Plastic litter is a major environmental hazard that endangers human, animal, and plant health on the planet. A substantial portion of plastic pollutants is washed from rivers and beaches into the oceans and aggregates at the surface as marine debris before ...
2023Portable impedance-sensing device for microorganism characterization in the field
A variety of biosensors have been proposed to quickly detect and measure the properties of individual microorganisms among heterogeneous populations, but challenges related to cost, portability, stability, sensitivity, and power consumption limit their app ...
NATURE PORTFOLIO2023Large-scale detection of marine debris in coastal areas with Sentinel-2
Devis Tuia, Marc Conrad Russwurm
Detecting and quantifying marine pollution and macroplastics is an increasingly pressing ecological issue that directly impacts ecology and human health. Here, remote sensing can provide reliable estimates of plastic pollution by regularly monitoring and d ...
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