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High Throughput FTIR Analysis of Macro and Microplastics with Plate Readers
Summary
This study developed high-throughput FTIR plate reader methods to analyze larger microplastics and macroplastics more efficiently than traditional manual ATR approaches. Faster and more automated chemical identification of plastic particles is critical for scaling up environmental monitoring programs.
FTIR spectral identification is today's gold standard analytical procedure for plastic pollution material characterization. High-throughput FTIR techniques have been advanced for small microplastics (10 um - 500 um) but less so for large microplastics (500 um - 5 mm) and macroplastics (> 5 mm). These larger plastics are typically analyzed using ATR, which is highly manual and can sometimes destroy particles of interest. Furthermore, spectral libraries are often inadequate due to the limited variety of reference materials and spectral collection modes. We advance a new high-throughput technique to remedy these problems. FTIR plate readers are high throughput devices for measuring large particles (> 500 um). We created a new reference database of over 6000 spectra for transmission, ATR, and reflection spectral collection modes with over 600 plastic, organic, and mineral reference materials relevant to plastic pollution research. We also streamline analysis in plate readers by creating a new particle holder for transmission measurements using off-the-shelf parts and fabricating a non-plastic 96-well plate for storing particles. We validated the new database using Open Specy and demonstrated that transmission and reflection spectra reference data are needed in spectral libraries.
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