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Nanoplastics
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Fate of polystyrene and polyethylene nanoplastics exposed to UV in water
Environmental Science Nano
2023
9 citations
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Gireeshkumar Balakrishnan,
Fabienne Lagarde,
Christophe Chassenieux,
Arnaud Martel,
Elise Deniau,
Taco Nicolaï
Summary
Researchers found that UV irradiation progressively degrades polystyrene and polyethylene nanoplastics dispersed in water, causing them to become porous, fragment, and ultimately degrade completely, revealing the photochemical fate of nanoplastics in sunlit aquatic environments.
UV irradiation leads to the degradation of PS or PE nanoplastics dispersed in water. They initially become porous, then fragment and finally degrade completely.