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B2.4 - Nanoelectromechanical System Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (NEMS-FTIR) for Nanoplastic and Polymer Degradation Analysis
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Researchers developed a highly sensitive technique combining nanoelectromechanical systems with infrared spectroscopy (NEMS-FTIR) that can detect as little as 1 nanogram of polystyrene or polypropylene nanoplastic particles as small as 54 nm in diameter. This breakthrough in detection sensitivity could greatly improve researchers' ability to identify and characterize nanoplastics — the tiniest and hardest-to-detect form of plastic pollution — in environmental and biological samples.
We introduce a novel application of photothermal infrared spectroscopy based on nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), integrated with a commercially available FTIR spectrometer (NEMS-FTIR).We successfully detected 1 ng of polystyrene (PS) and 1 ng of polypropylene (PP) nanoplastic particles with diameters of 100 nm and 54 nm, respectively.As a case study, we detected small amounts of degradation products originating from plastic tubing.The technique enabled high-resolution spectral identification of samples from microliter to nanoliter volumes on NEMS chips.
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