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Nanoplastic-fungal interaction across different laboratory scales: Implications for transport in subsurface environments
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This study examined how nanoplastics interact with fungi across different laboratory scales, focusing on the implications for how nanoplastics move through subsurface (underground) environments. Understanding fungal transport of nanoplastics is important because soil fungi form vast networks that could either trap or spread plastic particles through the ground and into groundwater.
Nanoplastic-fungal interaction across different laboratory scales: Implications for transport in subsurface environments
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