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Airborne Microplastic Analytical Methods Comparison DATA
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Researchers compiled comparative datasets and instrument files for five analytical methods targeting airborne microplastics, emphasizing the critical importance of methods capable of resolving particles below 10 µm — a size class that most conventional approaches miss.
This folder provides additional data corresponding to the manuscript "Comparative Assessment of Five Analytical Methods for Airborne Microplastics Highlights Importance of Identifying Sub-10 μm Methods" (DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-49405-2). The zip folder contains individual folders for each method's data files. nilered_data: contains CSV files with particle size information and microscopy GFP TIF imagery files. pygcms_data: contains instrument files from pygcms runs, CSV files for individual ions and calibration information. raman_data: contains an XLSX file for all Raman data. tdptrms_data: contains an XLSX overview data file for TD-PTR-MS and a CSV for each polymer's results.
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