Solving Familiar Problems: Leveraging Environmental Testing Methods for Nanomaterials to Evaluate Microplastics and Nanoplastics

Elijah Joel Petersen; Alan James Kennedy; Thorsten Hüffer; Frank von der Kammer

doi:10.3390/nano12081332

Solving Familiar Problems: Leveraging Environmental Testing Methods for Nanomaterials to Evaluate Microplastics and Nanoplastics

Nanomaterials (Basel). 2022 Apr 13;12(8):1332. doi: 10.3390/nano12081332.

Authors

Elijah Joel Petersen¹, Alan James Kennedy^{2

3}, Thorsten Hüffer^{4

5}, Frank von der Kammer⁴

Affiliations

¹ Biosystems and Biomaterials Division, Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA.
² Environmental Laboratory, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS 39180, USA.
³ Macromolecules Innovation Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
⁴ Department of Environmental Geosciences (EDGE), Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
⁵ Research Platform Plastics in the Environment and Society (PLENTY), University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.

Abstract

The potential environmental and human health risks from microplastic (1 µm to 1 mm) and nanoplastic (<1 µm) particles (MNPs) is receiving increasing attention from scientists and the public [...]

Publication types

Editorial