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Plastic analysis with a plasmonic nano-gold sensor coated with plastic binding peptides.

Preprints.org 2024 2 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
François Gagné, Maxime Gauthier, C. André

Summary

This study describes a sensor technology using gold nanoparticles coated with plastic-binding peptides to detect and identify small plastic particles in the environment. Developing rapid, accurate detection methods is a critical step toward understanding how much microplastic contamination exists in water and other environments, and this approach offers a potentially faster and more sensitive alternative to conventional identification techniques.

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