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Micro-Nano-Plastics in the Atmosphere: Methodology for Sampling
Summary
This review focuses on methodologies for sampling micro-nano-plastics (MNPs) from the atmosphere, addressing the absence of a standardized procedure for collection and size fractionation that currently hinders comparison of results across research groups studying atmospheric plastic aerosol.
Micro-nano-plastics (MNPs) are an important constituent of atmospheric aerosol. However, there is still no standard procedure for their sampling and size fractionation, which is an obstacle to the aggregation and critical analysis of results obtained by different research groups. This review focuses on the sampling and fractionation methodologies used for MNPs. Moreover, a straightforward optimized methodology for the sampling and fractionation is proposed.
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