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Nanoplastics are significantly different from microplastics in urban waters

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Wei Wei, Xingdong Shi, Xingdong Shi, Xingdong Shi, Bing‐Jie Ni Xingdong Shi, Xingdong Shi, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Zhijie Chen, Bing‐Jie Ni Wei Wei, Zhijie Chen, Zhijie Chen, Wei Wei, Zhijie Chen, Zhijie Chen, Zhijie Chen, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Zhijie Chen, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Xingdong Shi, Xingdong Shi, Lan Wu, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Bing‐Jie Ni Zhijie Chen, Zhijie Chen, Bing‐Jie Ni Zhijie Chen, Zhijie Chen, Zhijie Chen, Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Zhijie Chen, Zhijie Chen, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Jiaqi Zhang, Xingdong Shi, Wei Wei, Bing‐Jie Ni Zhijie Chen, Lan Wu, Zhijie Chen, Wei Wei, Zhijie Chen, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Bing‐Jie Ni Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Wei Wei, Bing‐Jie Ni Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Bing‐Jie Ni Wei Wei, Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Lan Wu, Lan Wu, Lan Wu, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Zhijie Chen, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Wei Wei, Bing‐Jie Ni Zhijie Chen, Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Lan Wu, Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Wei Wei, Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Wei Wei, Bing‐Jie Ni Zhijie Chen, Zhijie Chen, Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Bing‐Jie Ni Wei Wei, Bing‐Jie Ni

Summary

This review critically examines the differences between microplastics and nanoplastics in urban water systems. Researchers found that nanoplastics exhibit distinct physicochemical features compared to microplastics, including Brownian motion and higher surface area, leading to significantly different environmental fates, pollutant interactions, and ecological impacts that warrant separate analytical and management approaches.

Microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) are ubiquitous and intractable in urban waters. Compared with MPs, the smaller NPs have shown distinct physicochemical features, such as Brownian motion, higher specific surface area, and stronger interaction with other pollutants. Therefore, the qualitative and quantitative analysis of NPs is more challenging than that of MPs. Moreover, these characteristics endow NPs with significantly different environmental fate, interactions with pollutants, and eco-impacts from those of MPs in urban waters. Herein, we critically analyze the current advances in the difference between MPs and NPs in urban waters. Analytical challenges, fate, interactions with surrounding pollutants, and eco-impacts of MPs and NPs are comparably discussed., The characterizations and fate studies of NPs are more challenging compared to MPs. Furthermore, NPs in most cases exhibit stronger interactions with other pollutants and more adverse eco-impacts on living things than MPs. Subsequently, perspective in this field is proposed to stimulate further size-dependent studies on MPs and NPs. This review would benefit the understanding of the role of NPs in the urban water ecosystem and guide future studies on plastic pollution management.

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