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Portable Raman spectroscopy coupled with machine learning for rapid identification and source apportionment of plastic particles in aquaculture wastewater.
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Scientists combined a portable laser-based scanning tool with smart computer algorithms to quickly identify and track tiny plastic particles in fish farm wastewater, achieving over 98% accuracy. This matters because microplastics can carry toxic metals and chemicals into the seafood we eat, and faster detection methods could help catch contamination before it spreads further into our food supply.
Aquaculture expansion has exacerbated microplastics (MPs) contamination in aquaculture water bodies. MPs readily adsorb heavy metals and organic pollutants to form composite contamination and accumulate through food chains, imposing ecological and human health risks. Conventional detection techniques including microscopic observation, FTIR and Py-GC-MS are limited by low identification accuracy, matrix interference, destructiveness and cumbersome procedures, which cannot support rapid large-scale monitoring. Raman spectroscopy enables non-destructive detection with unique molecular fingerprinting, yet spectral overlap, background noise and subtle crystallinity differences among similar plastics hinder accurate manual classification. In this study, Raman spectroscopy was integrated with machine learning to establish a rapid plastic particle classification approach. Raman spectra of thirteen typical standard MPs were acquired, preprocessed and dimensionally reduced by PCA-LDA. Seven machine learning models were constructed and optimized by cross-validation, and further validated using spiked aquaculture wastewater samples. All models achieved classification accuracies above 98%. Among them, -nearest neighbor (KNN), naive Bayes (NB), support vector machine (SVM), and logistic regression (LR) exhibited superior classification performance due to their effective feature discrimination capability and adaptability to high-dimensional Raman spectral data, enabling accurate classification of plastic particles according to polymer types under complex aquatic matrices. The proposed method integrates the molecular fingerprinting capability of Raman spectroscopy with the feature-learning advantages of machine learning, effectively overcoming the limitations of conventional spectral interpretation. This portable and non-destructive strategy provides a reliable approach for rapid plastic particle classification, pollution source tracing, and ecological risk assessment in aquatic environments.
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