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Blue micro-/nanoplastics abundance in the environment: a double threat as a Trojan horse for a plastic-Cu-phthalocyanine pigment and an opportunity for nanoplastic detection via micro-Raman spectroscopy
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Researchers exploited the resonance Raman signal of copper-phthalocyanine blue pigment in abundant environmental blue microplastics to enable micro-Raman spectroscopic detection of nanoplastics below conventional size limits, simultaneously identifying pigmented microplastics as a dual environmental threat and detection opportunity.
Our approach lowers the size of nanosized plastics detectable via micro-Raman spectroscopy, exploiting the resonance Raman signal from blue-pigmented, highly abundant microplastics.
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