AIMC Topic: Microplastics

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Association between long-term exposure of polystyrene microplastics and exacerbation of seizure symptoms: Evidence from multiple approaches.

Ecotoxicology and environmental safety
Microplastics are tiny plastic particles originating from both commercial product manufacturing and the degradation of larger plastic materials. These particles pose significant risks to environmental and animal health. A growing body of evidence hig...

Microplastics assessment in the lower stretch of the Ganga River sediment from East Indian region: Influence of land use and rainfall patterns.

Chemosphere
Microplastic (MP) pollution is increasingly viewed as a serious threat to waterways. However, little is known about the effects of land use and rainfall patterns on the occurrence and distribution of MPs in the river sediments. Herein, the MP polluti...

Toxicity of nanoplastics: machine learning combined with meta-analysis.

Nanoscale horizons
Nanoplastics (NPs) are widespread in ecosystems, and their biohazards are of increasing concern. The hazards posed by NPs to aquatic and terrestrial plants as well as to aquatic animals have been extensively studied; however, their impact on mammals ...

An efficient and precise (micro)plastic identification method: feature infrared spectra extraction based on EIS-VIP-CARS and ANN modeling.

Environmental research
Understanding microplastics' (MPs) ecological impact necessitates their precise identification. To address the issue of the competitive adaptive reweighted sampling (CARS) algorithm extracting numerous feature wavenumber points (FWPs) that often miss...

Evaluating marine environmental pollution using Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP): A comprehensive framework for sustainable coastal and oceanic management.

Marine pollution bulletin
Marine pollution poses a significant threat to ecosystems, biodiversity, and human health, necessitating a structured evaluation framework. This study applies the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) to prioritize five major marine pollution sourc...

Machine learning-driven analysis of soil microplastic distribution in the Bang Pakong Watershed, Thailand.

Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Microplastics (MPs) have emerged as a pervasive environmental pollutant due to their persistence and global distribution. However, MPs relationships with covariables remain largely unexplored. This study investigates factors influencing MPs occurrenc...

Unveiling the systemic impact of airborne microplastics: Integrating breathomics and machine learning with dual-tissue transcriptomics.

Journal of hazardous materials
Airborne microplastics (MPs) pose significant respiratory and systemic health risks upon inhalation; however, current assessment methods remain inadequate. This study integrates breathomics and transcriptomics to establish a non-invasive approach for...

The Application of Anisotropically Collapsing Gels, Deep Learning, and Optical Microscopy for Chemical Characterization of Nanoparticles and Nanoplastics.

Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
The surface chemistry of nanomaterials, particularly the density of functional groups, governs their behavior in applications such as bioanalysis, bioimaging, and environmental impact studies. Here, we report a precise method to quantify carboxyl gro...

Microbial degradation potential of microplastics in urban river sediments: Assessing and predicting the enrichment of PE/PP-degrading bacteria using SourceTracker and machine learning.

Journal of environmental management
Microplastic mitigation strategies that adapt to various actual aquatic environments require the ability to predict their microbial degradation potential. However, the sources and enrichment characteristics of the degrading bacteria in the plastisphe...

Diverse Perspectives Illuminate the Intestinal Toxicity of Traditional and Biodegradable Agricultural Film Microplastics to under Varying Exposure Sequences.

Environmental science & technology
The widespread use of plastic agricultural films necessitates a thorough evaluation of environmental risks posed by soil microplastics (MPs). While the intestinal tract is a critical site for MP interactions in soil organisms, current research predom...