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Plastic analysis with a plasmonic nano-gold sensor coated with plastic binding peptides.
Preprints.org
2024
2 citations
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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.
Plastic contamination of small dimensions (